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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791) [Schikaneder, Emanuel. (1751–1812)]. [K. 620] Die Zauberflöte eine grosse Oper in zwey Aufzügen fürs Clavier oder Pianoforte.. Leipzig: in Commission der Breitkopfischen Musikhandlung. [1794]. Piano-vocal score and one of the earliest editions of the opera. Oblong quarto in full contemporary sheepskin, 2 volumes ("Erstes Heft" and "Zweytes Heft") in one. Music typeset (no PN). 51 folios (vol. 1); 52 folios (vol. 2). Text in German. Together, the two volumes comprise the complete music of the opera, consisting of "Ouverture", "Marsch" and 35 vocal numbers, each paginated separately. The vocal items are numbered at foot: "Mozarts Zauberflöte. No.1...[34]". Within each volume, the order of the items follows their numbering; no. 19, "Der Hölle Rache," is misnumbered "9" and bound in accordingly (within the first volume); the true no. 9, "Die Weisheitslehre dieser Knaben" appears in its correct position within the second volume. "No. 29" is erroneously assigned twice ("Wir wandelten durch Feuergluthen", volume 1, and "Triumph! Triumph" in volume 2). The general title precedes the first volume; there is no divisional title for the first volume ("Erstes Heft"), with an integral blank leaf in its stead; the divisional title for the second volume ("Zweytes Heft") is present. Inscription to head of general title, "Rosa J Thompson, Given her by her Mother, M A Thompson"; further below, in a different hand, "M. A. Thompson of Baltimore." 10.75 x 13 inches (27 x 30.5 cm). Binding and spine lost, both boards detached, toned, crumpled along gutter edge, and chipped; quite worn, in need of resewing and rebacking.
The Magic Flute premiered at Schikaneder's theatre in Vienna in 1791. An amazing cultural phenomenon in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, there were known performances of the opera in 1794 in Linz, Dresden, Frankfurt, Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Weimar and Zittau. It was the first German opera to establish itself internationally (if usually in translation).
This edition of Die Zauberflöte was prepared as separate items, and there is no pagination of the volume as a whole; in this it follows the competing first editions by Artaria and Kozeluch. All these early editions omit the spoken dialogue. The first volume contains the better-known numbers and those better suited to separate performance. The often missing engraving by Johann Adolf Rosmäsler, which depicts Monostatos ogling the sleeping Pamina (thus illustrating his aria from Act II, "no. 18" in the present edition), is present as a frontispiece bound in between the title and first page of music of the second volume, albeit with the lower right corner torn and some loss to the image. The engraving is in the Hoboken copy, but not in Hirsch, iv 187, which also lacks the second title-page. In another Hirsch copy (iv 187a), the engraving is described as "inserted". Hoboken 559; RISM M 4785; Hirsch, iv 187.
The Magic Flute premiered at Schikaneder's theatre in Vienna in 1791. An amazing cultural phenomenon in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, there were known performances of the opera in 1794 in Linz, Dresden, Frankfurt, Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Weimar and Zittau. It was the first German opera to establish itself internationally (if usually in translation).
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791) [Schikaneder, Emanuel. (1751–1812)]. [K. 620] Die Zauberflöte eine grosse Oper in zwey Aufzügen fürs Clavier oder Pianoforte.. Leipzig: in Commission der Breitkopfischen Musikhandlung. [1794]. Piano-vocal score and one of the earliest editions of the opera. Oblong quarto in full contemporary sheepskin, 2 volumes ("Erstes Heft" and "Zweytes Heft") in one. Music typeset (no PN). 51 folios (vol. 1); 52 folios (vol. 2). Text in German. Together, the two volumes comprise the complete music of the opera, consisting of "Ouverture", "Marsch" and 35 vocal numbers, each paginated separately. The vocal items are numbered at foot: "Mozarts Zauberflöte. No.1...[34]". Within each volume, the order of the items follows their numbering; no. 19, "Der Hölle Rache," is misnumbered "9" and bound in accordingly (within the first volume); the true no. 9, "Die Weisheitslehre dieser Knaben" appears in its correct position within the second volume. "No. 29" is erroneously assigned twice ("Wir wandelten durch Feuergluthen", volume 1, and "Triumph! Triumph" in volume 2). The general title precedes the first volume; there is no divisional title for the first volume ("Erstes Heft"), with an integral blank leaf in its stead; the divisional title for the second volume ("Zweytes Heft") is present. Inscription to head of general title, "Rosa J Thompson, Given her by her Mother, M A Thompson"; further below, in a different hand, "M. A. Thompson of Baltimore." 10.75 x 13 inches (27 x 30.5 cm). Binding and spine lost, both boards detached, toned, crumpled along gutter edge, and chipped; quite worn, in need of resewing and rebacking.
The Magic Flute premiered at Schikaneder's theatre in Vienna in 1791. An amazing cultural phenomenon in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, there were known performances of the opera in 1794 in Linz, Dresden, Frankfurt, Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Weimar and Zittau. It was the first German opera to establish itself internationally (if usually in translation).
This edition of Die Zauberflöte was prepared as separate items, and there is no pagination of the volume as a whole; in this it follows the competing first editions by Artaria and Kozeluch. All these early editions omit the spoken dialogue. The first volume contains the better-known numbers and those better suited to separate performance. The often missing engraving by Johann Adolf Rosmäsler, which depicts Monostatos ogling the sleeping Pamina (thus illustrating his aria from Act II, "no. 18" in the present edition), is present as a frontispiece bound in between the title and first page of music of the second volume, albeit with the lower right corner torn and some loss to the image. The engraving is in the Hoboken copy, but not in Hirsch, iv 187, which also lacks the second title-page. In another Hirsch copy (iv 187a), the engraving is described as "inserted". Hoboken 559; RISM M 4785; Hirsch, iv 187.
The Magic Flute premiered at Schikaneder's theatre in Vienna in 1791. An amazing cultural phenomenon in the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, there were known performances of the opera in 1794 in Linz, Dresden, Frankfurt, Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, St. Petersburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Weimar and Zittau. It was the first German opera to establish itself internationally (if usually in translation).