Zweig MS 53

Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of three staves. Mozart’s title ‘Sonata III’ is at the head of the music (f. 1r). The instruments marked ‘Violino’ and ‘Cembalo’ against the first system of each movement. Three movements, as follows: ff. 1r-3r. ‘All.[egr]o’. The upper system on f. 2v contains the final bars of the movement; it is followed (ff. 2v-3r) by a passage of 17 bars (and one bar struck through) marked for insertion 4 bars before the end of the movement. ff. 3r-5v. No tempo direction [theme and variations, Andante], the variations marked and numbered by Mozart, variation 6 also headed ‘Siciliana’ (f. 5r). Begins on f. 3v; f. 3r has, below the end of the insert for movement I, a variant beginning for this movement, struck through in ink. The violin part is not entered in this variant version, which is apparently for piano alone, with repeats marked; in the final version on f. 3v, which includes the violin, the repeats are varied and written out. ff. 5v-7r. ‘Tempo di Menuetto’. On f. 6v the repeat of the opening is indicated by ‘Thema da capo: 46 tackt’, followed by the concluding 29 bars. The point at which those bars follow the repeated opening is marked (f. 6r) with a sign and ‘das Zweytemal’. Marked ‘1781’ in top right margin [by. J.A. André]. Various numbers have been added to f. 1r, including in pencil at the foot, ‘229’, the manuscript’s number in André 1841. With a note of purchase in 1872 signed ‘A & E O [?] Kurtz’ at the bottom right of f. 1r; all 7 written folios initialled and numbered by A.G. Kurtz at bottom right of recto. The present binding encloses old covers and rear fly-leaves from an earlier binding. To the first of these fly-leaves is pasted a printed extract in German [from V.A. Heck, Vienna, catalogue Dec. 1925, see Custodial History] (f.ii), and beside it is a note in German in ink by Eusebius Mandyszewski, 1926 (f. iii); inside the old back cover is a brief description of the manuscript in German, written in pencil (f. iv).