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Auction archive: Lot number 49

W.A. Mozart. First edition of the full score of "Don Giovanni", 2 volumes, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1801]

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,008 - US$6,680
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 49

W.A. Mozart. First edition of the full score of "Don Giovanni", 2 volumes, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1801]

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,008 - US$6,680
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS Il dissoluto punito osia Il Don Giovanni Dramma giocoso in due atti posto in Musica da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...in Partitura, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1801] FIRST EDITION OF THE FULL SCORE OF "DON GIOVANNI", 2 volumes, engraved illustrated Italian title to volume 1 and printed German titles to both volumes: Don Juan. Der steinerne Gast, komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen...mit unterlegtem deutschen Texte, nebst sämmtlichen von Komponiste n später eingelegten Stücken, in Partitur [...Zweiter Akt] 590 pages, oblong 4to (237 x 318mm), engraved title with vignette by Bolt after Kinninger, list of Personaggi, table of songs, type-set music, text in Italian and German (German added in pencil to the recitatives), early nineteenth-century dark blue marbled boards, red-gilt labels to spines ("Don Juan von Mozart 1 [...2]") The full orchestral score of Don Giovanni, one of Mozart's greatest works, and for many the greatest of all operas. This was the first of Mozart's operas to be published for voices and orchestra. Fuld disputes Haberkamp's assertion that the separate printed German libretto by Friedrich Rochlitz was included with the earliest copies, and opines that it was added later to correct errors. It is missing here, as from nearly all the copies listed by Haberkamp in her bibliography. LITERATURE:Haberkamp pp.295-298 (plates 254-257); Fuld, p.371 (n.3); Hoboken 341; Hirsch II 645; RISM M 4502Condition reporttrimmed close by the binder, affecting text at the foot of pp.363/364 & pp.381/382, small ink stains to pp.355/356, occasional light browning or foxing, worn but sound, lacking the separate printed libretto and publisher's green wrappers The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The

Auction archive: Lot number 49
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS Il dissoluto punito osia Il Don Giovanni Dramma giocoso in due atti posto in Musica da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...in Partitura, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1801] FIRST EDITION OF THE FULL SCORE OF "DON GIOVANNI", 2 volumes, engraved illustrated Italian title to volume 1 and printed German titles to both volumes: Don Juan. Der steinerne Gast, komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen...mit unterlegtem deutschen Texte, nebst sämmtlichen von Komponiste n später eingelegten Stücken, in Partitur [...Zweiter Akt] 590 pages, oblong 4to (237 x 318mm), engraved title with vignette by Bolt after Kinninger, list of Personaggi, table of songs, type-set music, text in Italian and German (German added in pencil to the recitatives), early nineteenth-century dark blue marbled boards, red-gilt labels to spines ("Don Juan von Mozart 1 [...2]") The full orchestral score of Don Giovanni, one of Mozart's greatest works, and for many the greatest of all operas. This was the first of Mozart's operas to be published for voices and orchestra. Fuld disputes Haberkamp's assertion that the separate printed German libretto by Friedrich Rochlitz was included with the earliest copies, and opines that it was added later to correct errors. It is missing here, as from nearly all the copies listed by Haberkamp in her bibliography. LITERATURE:Haberkamp pp.295-298 (plates 254-257); Fuld, p.371 (n.3); Hoboken 341; Hirsch II 645; RISM M 4502Condition reporttrimmed close by the binder, affecting text at the foot of pp.363/364 & pp.381/382, small ink stains to pp.355/356, occasional light browning or foxing, worn but sound, lacking the separate printed libretto and publisher's green wrappers The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The

Auction archive: Lot number 49
Auction:
Datum:
1 Dec 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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