Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

W. A. Mozarti. Missa pro Defunctis Requiem W. A. Mozarts Seelenmesse mit untergelegtem deutschem texte [score], Leipzig: im Verlage der Breitkopf & Härtelschen Musikhandlung, [1800?]
Paper

first edition, fourth issue, of the Requiem, K.626, 178 pages, oblong 4to (25.7 x 32.6cm), printed dedication, engraved illustration by W. Böhm after Kininger, type-set music, printed German translation by Clodius at end, without publisher's printed wrappers, modern vellum-backed boards, engraved illustration repaired at hinge, light scattered browning; together with three nineteenth-century French manuscript vocal parts ("1.^{o Soprano", "Ténor Solo" and "Basse") for the 'Tuba Mirum', 'Recordare' and 'Benedictus' (this last movement in tenor part only), 10 pages, folio, no place or date}

Literature

Haberkamp, p. 386

Catalogue Note

Copies of the first edition of Mozart's Requiem, one of the most famous editions in all of music, are extremely rare at auction: we have traced only one copy during the last twenty-five years. The work was not published in parts until 1812 (Vienna, Chemische Druckerei).