Il Sogno di Scipione. Festspiel in einem Akte. Partitur. [KV 126]. [Full score]

  • Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W.A.M.126], 1880
By MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W.A.M.126], 1880. Folio. Quarter dark brown cloth with marbled boards, publisher's decorative upper wrapper laid down to upper. 1f. (series title), 1f. (recto cast list and index, verso blank), 126 pp. Engraved.

With numerical handstamp in purple ink to upper outer corner of recto of first three leaves.

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

Binding slightly worn, spine faded. First Edition. Köchel 8, p.127. Hirsch III, 673. Series 5, number 7 in the publisher's edition of the complete works of Mozart.

Il Sogno di Scipione, to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, was composed in [?]April-August 1771, and first performed as a Serenata at the enthronement of Count H. Colloredo as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg in May of 1772.

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