Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

comprising
1) Ouverture pour le Clavecin ou Forte Piano de l'Opera Don Juan, 9 pages, engraved vignette title, plate no.33, priced 30Xr, [RISM M 4540; Hoboken ÖNB 349]
2) Terzetto Ah chi mi dice mai...No.I, 5 pages, initial blank, plate 34, title above music, [not in RISM]
3) Aria Madamina il Catalogo è questo...No.II, 9 pages, plate 35, [not in RISM: cf. M 4564 (plate 62)]
4) Duetto e coro Giovenette che fatte all'Amore...No.III, 5 pages, initial blank, plate 36, [RISM M 4566 (one copy only)]
5) Duettino La ci darem la mano...No.IV, 4 pages, plate 37, [RISM M 4568 (one copy only); cf. Hoboken 352 (plate 57)]
6) Aria Fin ch'han del vino...No.V, 6 pages, with blank, plate 38, [not in RISM: cf. M 4571]
7) Aria Batti, Batti...No.VI, 5 pages, plate 39, [RISM M 4573 (one copy only]
8) Finale trema trema Scelerato...No.VII, 8 pages, with blank, plate 40, [RISM M 4578 (one copy only)]
9) Aria Ah taci ingiusto cor...No.VIII, 7 pages, plate 41, [RISM M 4574 (one copy only)]
10) Aria Deh vieni alla finestra...No.IX , 2 pages, plate 42, [not in RISM: cf. M4575]
11) Aria Vedrai carino...No.X, 4 pages, plate 43, [not in RISM: cf. M 4577]



39 leaves, oblong 4to (c.23 x 32.5cms), including blanks, watermarks of star in a crowned shield and crescent (somewhat similar to Heawood 819), engraved throughout, modern quarter cloth, old red-gilt title label, some staining, well thumbed in places, with some repairs to lower corners (loss repaired on nos.5 & 6),

Koechel, p.598 ("Einzelne Stücke")

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This Viennese edition of Don Giovanni predates the first complete vocal score of 1791.   It includes the probable first printings  of some of Mozart's most celebrated songs: 'La ci darem la mano',  'Batti, batti', 'Ah taci ingiusto cor'  and Leporello's Catalogue aria. 

Of the greatest rarity.  This volume contains five numbers not traced in RISM and others extant only in a handful of copies in Vienna . No complete set of Artaria's collection is known to survive and no copies of any of these first  issues are recorded in Britain or America.

Artaria's was not a complete edition of the opera; however, this copy contains all the numbers published by the firm in 1790 and 1791, comprising the Ouverture and ten numbered arias and ensembles, including part of the Act One Finale.  They appeared in Artaria's series "Raccolta d'Arie", nos 33-43 and  predate the first complete edition of the vocal score, published by Schott in 1791.

The publisher's numbers are given on the inside corners of each page and each vocal item is numbered (No.I to X). There is a title-page only for the Ouverture.  Some numbers were later reissued by Artaria with the revised plate nos 57-62 and, after c.1802, by Cappi & Mollo, who also published the Introduction (RISM M 4563).  The copy offered here contains all the vocal numbers in the earliest Artaria issues (nos. 34-44), and the ouverture (33) in the second issue (the plates first appeared in 1788).