Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

first edition of the parts, 9 (violin solo), 9 (viola solo), 5 (violin I), 5 (violin II), 6 (violas I, II), 4 (bass and violoncello), 2 (oboe I), 2 (oboe II), 2 (horn I), 2 (horn II) pages, 4to (c.34.5 x 25cm), engraved title vignette to the solo parts, plate-number 1588, with an early nineteenth-century manuscript copy of the bass part, modern cloth folder, a few small stains, title-pages splitting along hinge [Hirsch, iv 38; RISM M 5752; Haberkamp, p. 159]

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Rare. We have not traced a copy of the exceedingly rare first edition of the parts for Mozart's great double concerto for violin and viola at auction during the last twenty years. Not only do the parts represent the first edition of the work in any form, they are, in the absence of any surviving autograph manuscript of the work, of great textual significance. Only four sets are listed by Haberkamp.