Biblioteca Mozartiana Eric Offenbacher (BMEO): Facsimiles
- Dryden, John. Timotheus, oder die Gewalt der Musik. Vienna: Johann Baptist Wallishausser, s.a.Merritt Room Mus 571.385 BMEO. The textbook is for Handel's oratorio Alexander's Feast. According to Köchel, 6th ed., K. 591, it was used for a "monster" concert in the Winterreitschule on 29 November 1812. Includes two inserted slips of paper containing further references.
- Handel, George Frideric. Der Messias, ein Oratorium. In Musik gesetzt von Händel. Mit vermehrter Instrumental-Begleitung von Mozart. Libretto. Vienna: Anton Strauss, 1815.Merritt Room Mus 583.270.13 BMEO. Textbook in German. Ref.: Köchel, 6th ed., 645 (last line of "Ausgaben"). Both textbooks inserted into full score.
- Handel, George Frideric. Letter to Charles Jennens. Dublin, 29 December 1741.Merritt Room Mus 693.1.370.15 BMEO. Facsimile. Taken from Die Musik 15, no. 2 (1922).
"I saw the continuation of your kindness by the lines you was pleased to send me, in order to be prefixd to your Oratorio Messiah, which I set to Musick before I left England." This letter is inserted into George Frideric Handel, Der Messias: Oratorium, rev. and ed. from the autograph score and the parts at the Foundlings Hospital in London by Arnold Schering and Kurt Soldan (Leipzig: C. F. Peters, [1939?]), in the BMEO. The first performance of Messiah took place in Dublin on 13 April 1742 under the composer's direction. - Handel, George Frideric. The Messiah; a sacred oratorio, as it will be performed with Mozart's Additional Accompaniments, in the Cathedral, on Friday morning, September 24th, 1847. Libretto. Gloucester: D. M. Walker, [1847].Merritt Room Mus 583.270.11 BMEO. Textbook in English. Gloucester Music Festival, 1847.
- Jelinek, Franz Xaver, editor. Salzburger Mozart-Album. Salzburg: Verlag der Gebrüder Krakowitzer, 1874.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.410 BMEO. Mus 745.1.410. Reduced size of the identical larger 1871 edition. Contains facsimiles of the autographs of K. 5b and 125h. Includes two inserts containing bibliographical information.
- Mozart, Leopold. Reise-Aufzeichnungen 1763-1771. 27 faksimilierte handschriftliche Blätter. Im Auftrage des Mozarteums zu Salzburg zum ersten Male vollständig herausgegeben und erläutert von Arthur Schurig. Dresden, 1920.Merritt Room Mus 4194.15.56 BMEO. Isham 3582.15.1 (microfilm). Isham 3710.369.24.9 (6) (microfilm).
See review in Mozart-Jahrbuch 1 (1923), 168-70. - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Ave verum corpus. [Ave verum.] Faksimile nach dem in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien aufbewahrten Autograph. Vienna: Bundesministerium für Unterricht, 1956.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.581.5 BMEO. K. 618. Introduction by Leopold Nowak. This prized facsimile in the BMEO comes from the Oldman collection. It was issued in 1956, bound in pig leather with a matching slip-case, as a gift to special VIPs by the Austrian Government (Ministry of Education) on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth. It was never commercially available. The reproduction is so life-like as to look like the original manuscript. References: Viktor Keldorfer, "Betrachtungen über Handschriften Mozarts," Mozartgemeinde Wien 1913-1963: Forscher und Interpreten (Vienna: Mozartgemeinde Wien, 1964), 218n; Cornelius Preiss, "Mozarts "Ave Verum": Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Manuskriptes," Mozart-Jahrbuch 2 (1924), 235-38. Includes inserted typewritten reference to these related secondary sources.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Concertos, piano, orchestra, K. 491, C minor. [Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491 (facsimile.)] Kilkenny, Ireland: Boethius Press, 1979.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.219.18 BMEO Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Concertos, piano, orchestra, K. 467, C major. [Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467. The Autograph Score (facsimile). The Pierpont Morgan Library Music Manuscript Reprint Series.] New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library in association with Dover Publications, 1985. Merritt Room Mus 745.1.208.3 BMEO
Paperbound. Introduction by Jan LaRue ("Origins of the manuscript"; "Idiosyncrasies of Mozart's handwriting"; "Mozart's revisions"). "A Note on the History of the Manuscript" by J. Rigbie Turner. - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Concertos, piano, orchestra, K. 537, D major. [Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major ("Coronation"), K. 537. The Autograph Score (facsimile).] New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library in association with Dover Publications, 1991.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.177.3 BMEO. Paperbound. Introduction by Alan Tyson.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Das Veilchen. [Das Veilchen. Facsimile edition of the autograph.] Vienna: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1936.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.707 BMEO. Includes supplementary remark by Alfred Einstein. For commentary on the autograph and analysis of the music, see John Arthur and Carl Schachter, "Mozart's Das Veilchen: a commentary on the autograph and an analysis of the music," The Musical Times 130 (1989), 149-55 (copy is in BMEO xerox file).
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Der Schauspieldirektor. [Facsimile of the autograph manuscript in the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library.] New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.618 BMEO. In slip case. Introduction by J. Rigbie Turner.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Deutsche Tänze. [Deutsche Tänze, KV 509. Faksimile nach der im Besitz der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek in Berlin befindlichen Urschrift.] Edited by Wilhelm Virneisel. Leipzig: C. F. Peters, [1955].Merritt Room Mus 745.1.239.25 BMEO. 12 oblong leaves. Ref.: Köchel, 6th ed., 569. On page 12 Mozart in an "Anmerkung" writes out instructions for performance of these "6 Tedeschi".
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Eine kleine Nachtmusik. [Eine kleine Nachtmusik, 1787. Faksimile der Original-Handschrift herausgegeben von Manfred Gorke.] Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1955.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.200 BMEO. Ref.: Köchel, 6th ed., 589. Includes inserted clipped book review, "A Mozart Score," Times Literary Supplement, 2 December 1955.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Klavier-Trio in E-Dur (Köchel-Verz. Nr. 542). Facsimile of the autograph in the Preußische Staatsbibliothek. Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1921.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.390 BMEO. Reproduced complete for the first time. Attractive hard cover modern binding. Ref.: Köchel, 6th ed., 615. See review by Hermann Abert in Mozart-Jahrbuch 1 (1923), 179-80. Includes inserted note referring to this review.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Piano Music, Selections. [Der früheste Mozart.] Edited by Edward J. Dent and Erich Valentin. Munich: Verlag Hermann Rinn, 1956.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.441 BMEO. Isham Mus 745.1.441.
Contains facsimiles in Leopold Mozart's hand of K. 1a, b, c & d, composed by little Wolfgang during 1761. Includes inserted photocopied material extracted from Otto Schneider, Mozart in Wirklichkeit (Vienna: Verlag Paul Kaltschmid, 1955), 11-32. English edition also held in the BMEO. - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Piano Music, Selections. [The Earliest Compositions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.] Edited by Edward J. Dent and Erich Valentin, in association with H. J. Laufer of the Deutsche Mozart-Gesellschaft. Munich: Verlag Hermann Rinn, 1956Merritt Room Mus 745.1.440 BMEO. Isham Mus 745.1.440.
English edition of Der früheste Mozart, also in the BMEO. - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Preludes, piano. [Praeludium. Faksimile-Ausgabe.] Edited by Imre Sulyok. Budapest: Editio Musica, 1977.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.439.8 BMEO. Praeludium, K. deest. First edition. This Praeludium is recorded in the Philips Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 45, "Rarities & Surprises", on CD 3. Inserted typewritten reference to this recording, and an inserted photocopied page from the Neue Mozart Ausgabe, Serie IX, Werkgruppe 27, Bd. 2, xxxiii.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Requiem, K. 626, D minor. [Mozarts Requiem. Nachbildung der Originalhandschrift Cod. 17561 der K. K. Hofbibliothek in Wien in Lichtdruck.] Edited by Alfred Schnerich. Vienna: Gesellschaft für graphische Industrie, [1913].Merritt Room Mus 745.1.557 BMEO. Rare first facsimile issue of the complete autograph, watermarks reproduction and numbered list of subscribers. This copy, no. 70, was acquired by Prof. Dr. Adolf Thürlings of Bern. See original review by Ernst Lewicki in Die Musik 14, no. 1 (October 1914), 40, inserted in this volume. See also review by Christoph Wolff of the 1990 reprint in 19th-Century Music 15 (1991), 162-65, also inserted in this volume. New spine.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Rondos, piano, K. 511, A minor. [Rondo A Moll, K.V. 511. Faksimile nach der früher im Besitz der Musikbibliothek Peters befindlichen Urschrift.] Leipzig: C. F. Peters, [1955?].Merritt Room Mus 745.1.412.5 BMEO. Three leaves, oblong. Ref.: Köchel, 6th ed., 571.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Serenades, K. 361, B-Flat Major. [Gran Partita, K. 361. A Facsimile of the Holograph in the Whittall Foundation Collection.] Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1976.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.201.4 BMEO. With an introduction by Alfred Einstein, written in 1946. A review of this facsimile edition may be found in Notes 34 (1977), 352-54, a photocopy of which is inserted in this volume. See also Daniel N. Leeson and David Whitwell, "Concerning Mozart's Serenade in B-flat for Thirteen Instruments, K. 361 (370a)," Mozart-Jahrbuch 1976/77, 97-130.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Symphonies, K. 385, D major. [Symphony No.35 in D, K. 385, "Haffner" Symphony. Facsimile of the original manuscript owned by the National Orchestral Association, New York.] New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.54.35.3 BMEO. Introduction by Sidney Beck.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Symphonies, K. 551, C major. [(Jupiter). Facsimile Reproduction of the original manuscript.] Vienna: Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag, 1923.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.59.10 BMEO. Rare early facsimile of the complete autograph. Contemporary binding.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. ["Un moto di gioia", KV 579, Arie der Susanna in "Le Nozze di Figaro". Klavierauszug, Faksimile des Autographs.] Vienna: [Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde?], 1982.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.636.9 BMEO. One of 500 offprint copies made from the autograph in the Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna. Complete on one leaf (2 sides) in folder. Ref.: not known to Köchel, 6th ed.
- Nettl, Paul. Das Veilchen - The Violet: The History of a Song. New York: Storm Publishers, 1949.Merritt Room Mus 745.1.707.10 BMEO. Contains facsimile reprint of Artaria's first edition which is in BMEO. Note also a German version by the same author: "Das Veilchen, Geschichte eines Liedes," in Mozart-Jahrbuch 1955 (Salzburg: Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, 1956), 158-169. See also, John Arthur and Carl Schachter, "Mozart's Das Veilchen: a commentary on the autograph and an analysis of the music," The Musical Times 130 (1989), 149-55. Copy is in BMEO xerox file. Includes inserted typewritten reference to a related source.