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Notated Music Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]

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Title

  • Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrario 1784 bis Monath [November] 1[791]

Names

  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- 1756-1791 (creator)

Created / Published

  • monographic.

Notes

  • -  Numbered as follows: [0], 1-24 (numbers in Mozart's hand), 25-28 (numbers added later in pencil) [29-43]; [29v] blank, [30-43] ruled with staves on rectos, otherwise blank. Structure: 8 [the first 2 pasted down and unnumbered], 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 [the last two pasted down and unnumbered] (see structure diagram in Rosenthal and Tyson, p. 12). Rectos ruled with 10 staves grouped in pairs; the span of each pair of staves 22mm., the total span variable (smallest 164mm., largest 188mm.).
  • -  Cover label (f. i) and contents entirely in Mozart's hand. Written in ink. Signed `Wolfgang Amadé Mozart [paraph]' on the cover label (f. i), below the text quoted above.
  • -  Contents arranged with dates and description of each work on versos (the left page of each opening), and musical incipits opposite on rectos (right page of each opening). Each opening usually contains the entries for five works; the incipits are written on systems of two staves, the rectos pre-ruled for this pupose with ten staves grouped in pairs.
  • -  The first entry, dated 9 February 1784, is for the Piano Concerto in E flat (K449), the last (ff. 28v-29r), dated 15 November 1791, for the Masonic cantata `Laut verkünde unsre Freude' (K623); thereafter folios are ruled with staves on the rectos but otherwise blank. The first ten entries are numbered in ink [perhaps by G.N. Nissen], thereafter numbers are inserted in pencil, with the number 30 used twice. With various other later markings in ink and pencil, notably crosses in groups of three against the beginning of many of the text entries, single crosses at the end of some of the incipits, and an incomplete numeration system on the incipit pages grouping the works by fours.
  • -  Watermark: a unicorn, counter-mark `J.H.I.' (see Rosenthal and Tyson, p. 12).
  • -  Commentary: Though the first work in the Verzeichnüss is dated 9 Feb. 1784, it has been suggested that the entries for the opening group of works were transcribed retrospectively in Nov. of that year (for a discussion of this matter see Leeson and Whitwell, and Tyson and Rosenthal, pp. 14-15). It has since been suggested (Konrad), on the basis of the inks used, that a much larger group of entries occupying the first ten leaves of the Verzeichnüss may have been taken from an earlier catalogue and transferred to the present book in 1786. The Verzeichnüss has been known to Mozart scholars from the beginning, either in the original or in the form of the André publications listed above. It forms the basis of summary lists in the biographies by G.N. Nissen (1828) and, its first `publication' in English, G. Holmes (1845); the dates given in the Verzeichnüss, together with a full transcription of Mozart's descriptions, are included in the entries for the relevant works in K. The publication in 1938 by Reichner in Vienna of the facsimile editied by Deutsch, follows the issue through the same house of a facsimile of `das Veilchen' (Zweig MS. 56) in 1936 as well as Zweig's own 1931 facsimile edition of the first of his letters of Mozart to his cousin (see Zweig MS. 64).
  • -  Individual pages and openings from the manuscript have been reproduced widely. Two full facsimiles have been published: (1) Otto Erich Deutsch (ed.), Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. Verzeichnis aller meiner Werke. Facsimile der Handschrift... (Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1938, in a limited edition; reissued New York 1956, with an English translation of Deutsch's commentary), and (2) Albi Rosenthal and Alan Tyson (eds.), Mozart's Thematic Catalogue. A Facsimile (London, 1990); also published with the introduction in German translation as Mozart. Eigenhändiges Werkverzeichnis. Faksimile, NMA, Ser. X: 33/1 (1991). The first facsimile is slightly reduced and lacks the blank leaves at the end of the manuscript; the second, at actual size, incudes these leaves. (reproduction)
  • -  Sent by Constanze to J.A. André, Offenbach, 1800; sale of manuscripts of the heirs of André, L. Liepmannssohn, Berlin, auction 55, 12 Oct. 1929, lot no. 17 [unsold]; subsequently purchased from Liepmannssohn for Zweig by Paul Graupe (see Rosenthal, `A Footnote'), and purchased by Zweig through H. Eisemann, 1935 (Zweig's record card, Add. MS. 73167, f. 34); BL, Loan 42.1 from 1957 to 1986. (ownership)
  • -  Published: A. André (ed.), Thematisches Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Kompositionen von W.A Mozart... (Offenbach: Johann André, 1805) giving incipits in full, with summary descriptions of the works in German and French; ibid., W.A. Mozarts thematische Catalog... nebst einen erläuternden Vorbericht von A. André. Neue mit dem Original-Manuscript nochmals verglichene Ausgabe (Offenbach: Johann André, [1828]), giving incipits in full and a complete transcription of Mozart's descriptions of the works. In both editions the entries are numbered 1-145. A transcription of the text, with incipits, is given in E.H. Müller von Asow (ed.), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Verzeichnis aller meiner Werke (Vienna, 1943), where the faulty numeration found in the manuscript is followed. The Rosenthal Tyson Facsimile includes a complete transcription of the text. (publications)
  • -  Bibliography: D.N. Leeson and D. Whitwell, `Mozart's Thematic Catalogue' Musical Times, vol. civ (1973), pp. 781-3; King, pp. 53-6; Albi Rosenthal, `A Footnote to the Recent History of Mozart's `Verzeichnüss' Manuscript', in Banks, Searle, Turner (eds.), Sundry Sorts of Music Books (see Zweig MS. 54), pp. 256-8; Ulrich Konrad, Mozarts Schaffensweise (Göttingen, 1992, see Zweig MS. 57 above), p. 355. The introduction to Rosenthal and Tyson (eds.), Mozart's Thematic Catalogue. A Facsimile (London, 1990 and Kassel, 1991, see below) includes a history of the manuscript, a detailed description and commentary, and a full transcription of Mozart's text. (publications)
  • -  Exhibited: BM, 1956 (Mozart in The British Museum); Edinburgh, 1956; BL, 1986 (75 Musical and Literary Autographs); Vienna, Historische Museum der Stadt Wien (Künstlerhaus), 1990 (Zaubertöne); New York, Pierpont Morgan Library and BL, 1991 (Mozart: Prodigy of Nature); Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Palais Harrach), 1996 (Botschaft der Musik). (exhibitions)

Extent

  • ff. i + 44 ; 223 x 170 mm.

Repository

  • British Library

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrariobis Monath November 1791. Monographic.

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Mozart, W. A. Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrariobis Monath November 1791. Monographic.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Verzeichnüss / aller meiner Werke / vom Monath febrariobis Monath November 1791. Monographic.