La finta Giardiniera. Opera buffa in 3 Akten. Partitur. [KV 196]. [Full score]

  • Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W. A. M. 196], 1881
By MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W. A. M. 196], 1881. Folio. Publisher's decorative wrappers. 1f. (series title), [ii] (cast list and index), 277 pp. Engraved.

Signature to upper wrapper.

Provenance
Noted Viennese collector Professor Josef Zehtgruber (1935-2001), with his distinctive small decorative handstamp to upper outer corner of title.

Wrappers worn and chipped. First Edition. Köchel 8, p. 223. Hirsch III, 643. Series V, number 9 in the publisher's edition of the complete works of Mozart.

With text by Giuseppe Petrosellini revised by Marco Coltellini, the first version of La finta Giardiniera was first performed with considerable success in Munich at the Salvatortheater on 13 January 1774. It was performed again, with cuts, in Munich on 2 February and 2 March.

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