FRIEDRICH SANNO
Friedrich [D.] Sanno (fl. Pennsylvania, 1802-33) was a clergyman, printer, publisher, bookseller, and brassfounder. Perhaps the son of William F. deSanno, a French soldier in the American Revolution, and Eva Elizabeth Reuter, Sanno served as pastor of a Lutheran church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1802 until 1814, and he joined the Pennsylvania Militia in the latter year. He was also active as a printer, publisher, and bookseller in Carlisle from 1807 until 1814. It is not known when he began publishing the weekly Carlisle newspaper, Unpartheyische Americaner, but he retired from that position in August, 1813. City directories for Philadelphia (1820-33) list Frederick D. Sanno as a brassfounder there.
Brigham 1947, p. 835; Cumberland 1886, p. 217; Dierolf 1927, p. 11; Pennsylvania Archives, p. 51; Philadelphia Dir., 1820-33.
SAMMLUNG GEISTLICHER LIEDER, 1807
In the only copy discovered, the tune titles, the staves and the texts are all printed; the musical notation is added by hand, as in No. 26, Arnold, Geistliche Ton-Kunst (1803), and No. 442, Rothbaust, Geistliche Ton-Kunst (1807) (q.v.).
ASMI 454
Sammlung Geistlicher Lieder nebst Melodien, von Verschiedenen Dichtern und Componisten. Gedruckt und Herausgegeben, zu Carlisle, Pennsylvanien, von F. Sanno. [Collection of Sacred Songs together with melodies of various poets and composers. Printed and published, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, by F. Sanno.]
5 p.l., 3-121, [1] p. 11 x 20.5 cm. Original pagination may be: 1 p.l., 121, [1] p., beginning with the 2d t-p., with the rudiments as p. [1] & [2]. Nevertheless, the blank staves bound in front may be integral to the conception of the book; the only known copy is here described as it exists. Music supplied in manuscript.
[1807.] The 1st p.l., verso, carries a manuscript note dated 'Im Jahr Christi 1807 25 Mertz' (25 March 1807). 1st 1. recto, t-p.; verso blank (copy described has manuscript notation with handwritten date); 2d 1. recto & verso, 3d 1. recto, blank staves (copy described has manuscript music on these pages); verso blank; 4th 1. recto, t-p. (identical with 1st 1.); verso blank; 5th 1. recto & verso, rudiments; p. 3-121, music; p. 121-[22], 'Register.'
49 compositions for 3 voices; full text, w. 2 stanzas for most pieces. No attribs. 13 1st Am. pr. identified (Das alte Jahr, Der Herr ist, Fort! fort, Frölich soll, Geht heraus, Ich geh, Lob singet, Lobe Zion, O! der argen, Seele wirf, Welt ade, Wie schön, Wo treff ich), also 8 poss. 1st Am. pr. (Ach! wann werd, Ich walle, Jacobs Stern, Mein Heiland, Seele geh, Unser Herrscher, Wie Christen, Zeuche dich). 30 traced to non-American sources: the rest assumed to be non-American.
2 Core Repertory.
Not in Shaw-Shoemaker (no copy on Readex). Copy in private hands*.
NOTE: This work bears the same title and shares some repertory with No. 168, Conrad Doll, Sammlung Geistlicher Lieder (Lancaster, 1798), on which it seems to have been modeled.
The manuscript notation on the verso of leaf I reads: 'Dieses Nothen Buch Ist Mier Lieb und Wer miers Nimt der Ist Ein dieb[.] Joseph Withmor Heist Man mich[.] . . . Im Jahr Christi 1807 25 Mertz.' [This music book is dear to me, And whosever takes it is a thief(.) Joseph Whitmore is my name . . . In the year of our Lord 1807, 25 March.]
ASMI pp. 543-545.