Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

first edition of the unadulterated score, Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen's copy, 363 pages, folio (c.32 x 24.5cm), lithographed title and engraved music, cast list and index, plate number 1092, presentation inscription to title ("Von Fr. H. [?] ...1822 an F. Rungenhagen"), ownership inscription to verso of title ("Friedrich Spiro Berlin 1886"), ownership stamps, stitching hole for the originally unbound leaves to upper right-hand corners, contemporary half morocco gilt, owner's name gilt on spine ("C. F. Rungenhagen.") [Hoboken 566; Hirsch, ii 681; RISM M 4772], repairs to spine

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Although a pasticcio edition of the score, incorporating music from Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito, was published by Sieber around 1801 (see lot 99), this is the first unadulterated edition of the full score. One distinguished former owner of the score was Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen (1778-1851), a pupil of Zelter and, from 1833 on, director of the Berlin Sing-Akademie; another was the editor Friedrich Spiro, a former pupil of Liszt.