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Music: Primary Sources: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart facsimiles

Die Zauberflöte: eine deutsche oper in zwei aufzügen, KV620.

Kassel: Bärenreiter,1979.

 

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 z3 B score  

 

Introduction by Karl-Heinz Köhler (translated by George Baurley)

 

“Reproduction of the score, as was customary in those times, was by means of handwritten copies.The first printed score dates from 1814. …That original is now reproduced in facsimile in its complete form for the first time.”  ~ Karl-Heinz Köhler

The Mozart violin concerti: a facsimile edition of the autographs.

New York: Raven Press, 1986.

Call Number: MuR 785.671 M93 c6v score

Autographs include Concerto No. 1 in B Flat, K. 207; Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211; Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216; Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218; Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219; Adagio in E, K. 261; and Rondo in B Flat, K. 261a.

Mozart and the Violin by Gabriel Banat, p7-18.

Introduction to the autographs by Gabriel Banat, p19-28.

“Today’s musicians face serious problems in their efforts to play 18th century music true to the original intentions of the composer….Subsequent generations of editors aggravated these problems with errors or willful alterations of the original.” ~ Gabriel Banat 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Piano concerto no. 26 in D major, K.537: Coronation: the autograph score.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library in association with Dover Publications,1991.

 

Call Number: MuR 784.262 M93 c7 T score

 

Introduction by Alan Tyson

 

“The “CORONATION” was one of Mozart’s last piano concertos, the penultimate one that he wrote. … … The   manuscript also reveals Mozart’s late decision to add to the score two trumpets in D and two timpani in D and A in the first movement and the finale. Although every leaf of the autograph has twelve staves, it is clear that through much of its composition Mozart needed only ten staves, writing his score on staves 2-11 of each page and leaving staves 1 and 12 blank. ” ~ Alan Tyson   

Idomeneo K. 366, with Ballet K. 367

Los Altos, Calif. : Packard Humanities Institute, 2006.

Kassel: Distributed in conjunction with Bärenreiter

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 i21 P

Volume 1. Act 1-2

Volume 2. Act 3

Volume 3. Ballet music K.367 & Commentary

In English and German

 

 

 

 

 

 

Così fan tutte, ossia, La scuola degli amanti : K. 588 : facsimile of the autograph score

 

Los Altos, Calif. : Packard Humanities Institute, 2007.                                                                                                    

 

Kassel : Distributed in conjunction with Bärenreiter

 

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 c8 P1  v.1 score ; v. 2 score; commentary                                                              

       

Volume 1. Act 1  /  Volume 2. Act 2  /   Volume 3. Commentary

 

Preface by Geleitwort

 

‘Toying with the Emotions: Da Ponte's and Mozart's school of lovers’ by Norbert Miller

‘Musicological introduction’ by John A. Rice

‘First version of the libretto for the Vienna premiere on 26 January 1790 (Italian). Illustrations.

 

Note on the autograph and watermarks.

 

Gathering structure and contents of the autograph.

 

In English and German

Le Nozze Di Figaro : K. 492

Los Altos, Calif.: Kassel; New York: Packard Humanities Institute ; Distributed in Conjunction with Bärenreiter, 2007.

Volume 1-2. Facsimile of score

Volume 3. Commentary

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 n9 P1

In English and German

Così Fan Tutte, Ossia, La Scuola Degli Amanti : K. 588

Los Altos, Calif.: Kassel; New York: Packard Humanities Institute ; Distributed in Conjunction with Bärenreiter, 2007.

Volume 1-2. Facsimile of score

Volume 3. Commentary

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 c8 P1

In English and German

La clemenza di Tito: K. 621

Los Altos, Calif. : Packard Humanities Institute, 2008.

Kassel: Distributed in conjunction with Bärenreiter

Volume 1. Facsimile of score

Volume 2. Commentary

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 c6 P1

In English and German

Die Entführung aus dem Serail: K. 384

Los Altos, Calif. : Packard Humanities Institute, 2008.

Kassel: Distributed in conjunction with Bärenreiter

Volume 1. Acts 1-3

Volume 2. Commentary

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 e6 P1

Il dissoluto punito: ossia il Don Giovanni, K. 527, 540a, 540c

Los Altos, Calif. : Packard Humanities Institute, 2009.

Kassel: Distributed in conjunction with Bärenreiter

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 d6 P

Volume 1. Act 1

Volume 2. Act 2

Volume 3. Commentary

Die Zauberflöte: K. 620

Los Altos, Calif.: Kassel; New York: Packard Humanities Institute ; Distributed in Conjunction with Bärenreiter, 2009.

Volume 1-2. Facsimile of score

Volume 3. Commentary

Call Number: MuR 782.1 M93 z3 P  

In English and German

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eine kleine Nachtmusik: KV 525. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag.

Kassel : Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2013.

Call Number: MuR 785.71951856 M93 k6  score  

Introduction by Wolfgang Rehm (translated by William Buchanan)

“Arrangement of the seven uncut leaves, in loose order and without any signs of binding, … … . On the first page of the manuscript, Mozart gave no title for the work, nor did he supply a date or indicate his authorship.” ~  Wolfgang Rehm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Klavierkonzert c-Moll, KV 491: Autograph, Royal College of Music, London.

Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2014.

 

Call Number: MuR 784.262186 M93 c7 K491 score

 

Preface by Colin Lawson

 

Introduction & Critical Notes by Robert D. Levin

 

“…the C-minor concerto is unique in presenting a visual image as disturbed as the emotional content of the work  itself. … In this case of K.491, the disorderly notation primarily affects the solo keyboard part, in which  considerable amount of the concerto is sketched and later overwritten; as the facsimile reveals, the piano part frequently overflows into the stave above, …” ~ Robert D. Levin 

Requiem, KV 626.

Kassel: Bärenreiter. 2015.

Call Number: MuR 782.53238 M93 r4 K626 

Commentary in English and German  

Violinkonzert A-Dur, KV 219 = Concerto di violino : Faksimile nach dem Autograph aus den Sammlungen der Musikabteilung der Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. = Facsimile of the autograph from the collections of the Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2016.

 

Call Number: MuR 784.272 M93 c7 K219 

 

In English and German

 

Introduction by Stefan Drees

 

Translated by William Buchanan 

 

 “The autograph of Mozart’s Violin concerto in A major KV 219 published in the present facsimile edition, kept in the Music Division of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. under the signature ML30.8b .M8 K.219 case, consists of 46 leaves (fol. 1 to 46) with 92 inscribed pages. …” ~ Stefan Drees

 Sinfonie Nr. 38 KV 504 ("Prager" Sinfonie): Faksimile nach dem Autograph der Biblioteka Jagiellonska Krakow. 

Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 2016.

 

Call Number: MuR 784.2184 M93 s9 K504  

 

In English and German

 

Introduction by Ulrich Konrad

 

Translated by William Buchanan

 

“… the autograph’s whereabouts remained a mystery for decades. In 1848, the manuscript found itself in the possession of the Moravian singer and collector of musicalia, Franz Hauser, at the time active at the Royal Conservatory in Munich. He appears to have passed it on to the Augsburg bookseller Fidelis Butsch, in whose hands it can be shown to have been in 1851. Ten year later, Franz Liszt in Weimar had the pleasure of keeping this valuable possession before the autography entered the collection of the Royal Library in Berlin…”   ~ Ulrich Konrad

Klavierkonzert Es-Dur KV 271: “Jenamy”: Faksimile nach dem Autograph der Biblioteka Jagiellońska Kraków

Laaber: Figaro-Verlag, 2017.  

 

Call Number: MuR 786.2186 M93 c7 K271 

 

The Piano Concerto No. 9 “Jenamy” in E-flat major

 

In English and German

 

Introduction by Ulrich Konrad

 

Translated by William Buchanan

 “Mozart kept the autography of the “Jenamy” concerto in his collection of manuscripts throughout his life. It was part of his estate, and came to Leipzig for a short time towards the end of the 18thcentury when the publishers … …”

 

 

Biographies

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians via Grove Music Online

The Oxford Dictionary of Music