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Lot 67
  • 67

Haydn, Joseph.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • First editions of the "Heiligmesse" and the "Paukenmesse"
Messe à 4 Voix avec accompagnement...No. I.[...No. II] ["Heiligmesse" and "Paukenmesse"] [Hob.XXII/10 and XXII/9] [full scores], Leipzig: Au Magasin de Musique de Breitkopf et Härtel, [1802], first editions, 2 volumes in one, 108 and 114 pages, oblong 4to (26 x 33.5cm), type-set music, without original wrappers, nineteenth-century quarter cloth, browning [Hoboken 1435 and 1433; RISM H 2497 and H 2498] 

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The first editions of the "Heiligmesse" and the "Paukenmesse" , the first two masterpieces in a series of six masses composed by Haydn between 1796 and 1802.