Lot 232
  • 232

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Late eighteenth-century English manuscript of arias and duets by Mozart, together with songs and airs by Bianchi, Zingarelli and others
  • paper
with the title-page "Six Airs by Mozart selected for Miss J. Griffith", the words in French, (including 'Dans un bois solitaire' [K.308], 'Atterré par ma souffrance' [An die Hoffnung, K.390], 'Oiseaux , si tous les ans' [K.307], 'Dèsque Daméte voit Chloé' [Die Verschweigung K.518], 'Enfans d’un esprit exalté'  [Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte K.520] and 'La nature engourdie, par le froid' [K.597], 16 pages; 'Rondo Deh per questo istante solo' [from La clemenza di Tito], 15 pages; 'Deh vieni alla finestra' and 'Or che tutti' [from Don Giovanni]; 'Porgi amor, [from Le nozze di Figaro], 'Ch'io mi scordi di te' [K.505], 23 pages; together with arias by Bianchi (from La villanella rapita), Zingarelli ('Dunque il tuo bene' from Giulietta e Romeo), Boieldieu ('Je vous salue' and 'Zelmire a trahi ma tendresse' [c.1794-1795]), a few English songs and one printed item: Mlle. Bonne d’Alpy, Thema, with Variations for Pianoforte op.1 (London: G.G. Ferrari, c.1792), [RISM A879 (one copy only)]

82 leaves (over 150 pages), oblong 4to (c.23 x 28.5cm), with blanks, 10- & 12-stave English paper, Strasburg Bend & Lily watermarks (lettered "Portal & Bridge"), mainly dated 1794 and 1798, several individual title-pages, early nineteenth-century quarter calf, [1790s], very worn

Condition

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