Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

first edition, first issue, of the Fantasia and Sonata in C minor, K.475 and K.457, 23 pages, oblong 4to (23.6 x 32.6cm), engraved throughout, plate number 70, rebacked and recornered retaining contemporary spine and boards, a few small marks to title, edges trimmed; bound together with other eighteenth-century keyboard editions including 5 by Clementi (Opp.5, 6, 7, 8, 24) and one each by J.C. Bach (Op.5) and J. Haydn (Op.24)



 

Haberkamp, p.236; Hoboken 234; Hirsch, iv 79

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Rare. We have not traced another copy of this edition at auction during the last thirty years. Only five copies of the first issue are listed by Haberkamp, all in European institutions. This is a very good copy, with clear and deep impressions, of two of Mozart's greatest works for keyboard. The autograph manuscript of the Fantasia and Sonata in C minor was sold in these rooms on 21 November 1990 (lot 90).