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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for horn and orchestra in E flat (K447)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of six staves. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-5v. ‘All[egr]o’; this and the heading ‘Concerto per il Corno Solo’ on f. 1r are apparently not in Mozart’s hand. ff. 6r-7v. ‘Larghetto’. Headed ‘Romance’, and signed at top right ‘di Wolfgango ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Song ‘Das Veilchen’ (words, Goethe), for voice and piano (K476)
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Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. In G; tempo direction ‘Allegretto:’. Vocal line written in the soprano clef (apparently written over a treble clef); the parts labelled ‘Singstim[m]e.’ and ‘Klavier:’ against the first system (f. 1r). The heading ‘Das veilchen.’ ‘von gö...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, opera in four acts (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), 1786: draft of part of Cherubino’s Act I aria ‘Non so più cosa son’ (K492, no. 6)
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Autograph. Fragmentary draft in score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegro vivace’ (f. 1r). Contains the opening 34 bars; all strings are scored in for the first 6 bars (f. 1r), thereafter only the vocal and bass lines are entered. Mozart’s headings ‘Atto 1mo’, ‘Ari...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three- and four-part canons for voices, ‘Difficile lectu mihi Mars’ (K559) and ‘O du eselhafter Peierl’ (K559a)
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Autograph. Written in ink on either side of a single leaf. Each comprising a single vocal line in the soprano clef. Annotations include, in the right margin of the recto, ‘Originalhandschrift von Mozart’, in an unidentified hand. K559 is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) with ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Five contredanses for flute, strings (2 violins, cello and bass) and drum (K609)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of four or six staves. Headed by Mozart ‘Contredanses’ (f. 1r), with the nos. 1-5 at the head of the individual dances. No.1: f. 1r; no. 2: f. 1v; no. 3: f. 2r and v; no. 4: ff. 2v, 3r; no. 5: f. 3v. No. 4 is in ‘da capo’ form, with three alternati...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in E flat, for two violins, two violas and cello (K614)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Movement I (ff. 1r-6v), ‘All[egr]o di molto’; movement II (ff. 7r-10v) ‘Andante’; movement III (ff. 11r-12v) ‘Menuetto: Allegretto’ and ‘Trio’; movement IV (ff. 13r-18v) ‘All[egr]o’. Headed by Mozart ‘Quintetto:’ (f. 1r) and with hi...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Rondo in C minor/major for armonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (K617)
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of 6 staves. The movements are ‘Adagio’ (ff. 1r-2v), and [Rondo] ‘Allegretto’ (ff. 2v-8r). The names of the instruments against the first system on f. 1r include ‘Harmonique’ for the glass harmonica. Later annotations in ink to f. 1r are ‘Von Breit...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ‘La clemenza di Tito’, opera in two acts (libretto: Caterino Mazzola after Pietro Metastasio), 1791: duettino ‘Deh prendi un dolce amplesso’, for Sesto and Annio, from Act I (K621, no. 3).
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of ten staves. Headed ‘Duettino.’, with ‘No. 3’ at left, and ‘Atto I’ at right, all in Mozart’s hand in upper margin of f.1r. ‘No. 2’ added in upper margin of f. 1r in brown crayon. Other additions include, at the end (f. 2r) in ink, a bar count an...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Thematic Catalogue, ‘Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]’
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Autograph. Mozart's catalogue of his own works, which he kept from 1784 to just before his death in 1791. Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart’s hand. Written in ink. Signed ‘Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]’ on the cover label (f. i). Contents arranged with dates and description of ...
