Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791). La Clemenza di Tito dramma in due atti...Partitura. Titus Oper in zwey Akten. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel. 1809. First edition of the full score. 107 pages. Folio (33 X 26.1 cms). Engraved title and music. [PN] 620, words in Italian and German, printed index and libretto in German (5 leaves). Half morocco binding, marbled boards, front hinge separating. Title laid down on another sheet and repaired at margin, stamp and two ownership signatures, one from 1810, on title. A few pages with markings in 19th century ink, ink blot on pp. 91/92. Margins are closely trimmed, especially at bottom but rarely to within the plate (pp. 12, 90, 105). Kochel 621; RISM M 5094; Haberkamp, p.379.
The very rare earliest issue of the full score of Mozart's last opera, completed after the bulk of Die Zauberflote was written and first performed at the National Theatre in Prague on September 6, 1791. Comissioned to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as the Kind of Bohemia, the opera "was composed in a style more austere than that of Da Ponte Operas or Die Zauberflote...its style is appopriate to its topic. La Clemenza di Tito, compared with the preceding operas, is no less refind in craftmanship, and it shows Mozart responding with music of restraint, nobility, and warmth to a new kind of stimulus." (New Grove, 12: 722)
The very rare earliest issue of the full score of Mozart's last opera, completed after the bulk of Die Zauberflote was written and first performed at the National Theatre in Prague on September 6, 1791. Comissioned to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as the Kind of Bohemia, the opera "was composed in a style more austere than that of Da Ponte Operas or Die Zauberflote...its style is appopriate to its topic. La Clemenza di Tito, compared with the preceding operas, is no less refind in craftmanship, and it shows Mozart responding with music of restraint, nobility, and warmth to a new kind of stimulus." (New Grove, 12: 722)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791). La Clemenza di Tito dramma in due atti...Partitura. Titus Oper in zwey Akten. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel. 1809. First edition of the full score. 107 pages. Folio (33 X 26.1 cms). Engraved title and music. [PN] 620, words in Italian and German, printed index and libretto in German (5 leaves). Half morocco binding, marbled boards, front hinge separating. Title laid down on another sheet and repaired at margin, stamp and two ownership signatures, one from 1810, on title. A few pages with markings in 19th century ink, ink blot on pp. 91/92. Margins are closely trimmed, especially at bottom but rarely to within the plate (pp. 12, 90, 105). Kochel 621; RISM M 5094; Haberkamp, p.379.
The very rare earliest issue of the full score of Mozart's last opera, completed after the bulk of Die Zauberflote was written and first performed at the National Theatre in Prague on September 6, 1791. Comissioned to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as the Kind of Bohemia, the opera "was composed in a style more austere than that of Da Ponte Operas or Die Zauberflote...its style is appopriate to its topic. La Clemenza di Tito, compared with the preceding operas, is no less refind in craftmanship, and it shows Mozart responding with music of restraint, nobility, and warmth to a new kind of stimulus." (New Grove, 12: 722)
The very rare earliest issue of the full score of Mozart's last opera, completed after the bulk of Die Zauberflote was written and first performed at the National Theatre in Prague on September 6, 1791. Comissioned to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as the Kind of Bohemia, the opera "was composed in a style more austere than that of Da Ponte Operas or Die Zauberflote...its style is appopriate to its topic. La Clemenza di Tito, compared with the preceding operas, is no less refind in craftmanship, and it shows Mozart responding with music of restraint, nobility, and warmth to a new kind of stimulus." (New Grove, 12: 722)