Lot 176
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • First and early editions of string quartets and quintets, in parts
  • paper and ink
1) Trois Quatuors Tres faciles pour deux Violons Alto et Basso...I.er Livre de Quatuors [String Quartets K.157/1. K.170/i and iv, K.160 and K.173/i and ii, K.155/iii],  Vienna: Artaria, [1792, or later], first edition, fifth issue, plate 387, unbound, dust-staining to title [RISM M 6101; Haberkamp, p.83] 

2) Grand Quintuor pour deux Violons, deux Altes & Violoncelle...Oeuvre 73me [String Quintet in B flat, K.174], Offenbach: J. André, [1799], plate 1264, unbound, traces of repairs to outer bifolium of violin I part, [RISM M 5946; Haberkamp, p.88]



3) Grand Quintetto pour deux Violons deux Alto et Violoncelle...Oeuvre 24me [String Quintet in C minor, K.406], Offenbach: J. André, [1792], plate 516, disbound, slipcase, some damp-staining, a few small stains and annotations, reinforced at hinges [RISM M 5957; Haberkamp, p.194]



4) Grand Quintetto pour deux Violons, deux Alto et Violoncelle...Oeuvre 37me [String Quintet in E flat, K.614], Offenbach: J. André, [1793], plate number 610, early blue wrappers with manuscript titles, slipcase, lower wrapper attached to leading edges, a few stains, [RISM M 6021; Haberkamp, p.349]



 



 



 

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