No. 3 Principaux Quatuors No. 8 pour deux Violons, Alto, et Violoncelle ... [the "Prussian Quartets"]. [KV 590]. [Copyist manuscript set of parts]

  • 1825
By MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
1825. Folio (209 x 341 mm). Notated in ink on 6- to 15-stave rastrum-ruled paper, some wove, some laid.

Violino primo: 6, [i] (blank) pp.
Violino secondo: 1f. (blank), 6 pp.
Viola: 1f. (blank), 6 pp.
Violoncelle: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 6pp.

With the signature of the owner or copyist to several leaves ("Waschek") and titling to cello part, indicating that the owner of the manuscript may have been the cellist of the chamber group that used these parts.

Some minor wear, browning, staining, soiling, and showthrough; small tears to inner margin of title. The third of Mozart's "Prussian Quartets" (KV 575, 589, 590).

The present manuscript was, in all likelihood, copied from the André publication "Partitions des dix principaux quatuors pour deux violons, alto et violoncelle" published in Offenbach s/M in 1824.

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