Article: Johann Beer: Rhetorisches Erzahlen zwischen Satire and Utopie.(Book Review)

Johann Beer: Rhetorisches Erzahlen zwischen Satire and Utopie. By ANDREAS SOL BACH. (Fruhe Neuzeit, 82) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. viii+456 pp. 92 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-36582-x.

Andreas Solbach has written an authoritative, thorough study of one of the most fascinating cultural figures of the late seventeenth century. Johann Beer (1655-1700) was born in St Georgen, Austria, where he began his musical education, continuing it in 1662 at Kloster Lambach for three years, then in 1665 at Kloster Reichersperg am Inn. Soon thereafter, the Protestant Beer family left Upper Austria, which had officially reverted to Catholicism, and Johann continued his musical training at ...

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