Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

Grand Quintetto per due Violini due Viole e Violoncello [parts], Vienna: Artaria, [1789]
Paper

first edition, first issue, of the String Quintet in C, K.515, 9, 7, 7, 7 and 7 pages, 4to (32.7 x 23.9cm), watermark of "GFA" and three crescent moons and "SOTO IPERIAL", engraved throughout, plate number 283, quintet number entered in manuscript on the title ("N.^{o 1"), some gatherings strengthened and repaired at hinge, edges restored, small abrasion and a few small marks and stains to title}

Literature

Haberkamp, pp.281-282; RISM M 5973; Hirsch, iv 122

Catalogue Note

Rare. Haberkamp lists eleven insitutional copies and only one in private hands (the Rosenthal copy, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford).