W.A. Mozart. First edition of the first substantial obituary of Mozart, 1792

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Friedrich Schlichtegroll, Nekrolog auf das Jahr 1791. Enthaltend Nachrichten von dem Leben merkwürdiger in diesem Jahre verstorbener Personen...Zweytes Jahr. Erster [...Zweyter] Band, Gotha: bey Justus Perthes, 1792-1793, THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL OBITUARY OF MOZART

2 volumes in one, 375 and 388 pages, 8vo (c.15.7 x 9.5cm), dedication, prefaces, index at end, ownership inscriptions to front endpaper, red edges, gilt label to spine, contemporary half calf, some very slight damp-staining to margins of a few leaves in second volume, covers rubbed, wear to label on spine

RARE. We have no record of this volume appearing at auction during the last decade.

Schlichtegroll's important obituary of Mozart, contained in the second volume between pp.82 and 112, is the first substantial biographical essay on the composer and was based largely on the testimonies of the Salzburg Court Trumpeter J.A. Schachtner and Mozart's sister Nannerl.