Lot 105
  • 105

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Compleat Collection of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's Symphonies, in score...No.XIII [...XVIII] [K.543, 504, 620 and 492 (overtures), 550 and 551], London: Cianchettini & Sperati, [1807-c.1810]
including first editions of the scores of the Symphonies in E flat K.543, in D  ("Prague") K.504, G minor K.550, and C ("Jupiter") 551, 52, 53, 34, 20, 53 and 68 pages, small 4to (25 x 18.5cm), plate numbers 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, gilt lettering to spine ("Symphonies. Vol. III. Mozart."), nineteenth-century half calf, worming to joints, spine worn at foot, some light browning and staining [Haberkamp, pp.307, 276, 311-12] [RISM M 5549, 5539, 5565 and 5571]

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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Catalogue Note

A good copy of this famous series containing the first editions of the scores of some of Mozart's greatest instrumental works. The dating of the editions above follows Haberkamp; see also, however, Frederick Freedman, 'First, Second and Third Symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven', Detroit Reprints in Music (1975), p.x.