Lucio Silla. Opera seria in 3 Akten. Partitur. [KV 135]. [Full score]

  • Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W.A.M. 135], 1880
By MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W.A.M. 135], 1880. Folio. Quarter dark brown cloth with marbled boards, publisher's decorative upper wrapper laid down to upper. 1f. (series title), [ii] (cast list and index), 244 pp. Engraved.

Handstamp of the "Archiv der Staatsoper Wien" occasionally throughout; 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 outer corner of title and free front endpaper.

Binding slightly worn and warped; spine faded. Minor foxing and browning to final leaf. First Edition. Köchel 8, p. 164. Hirsch III, 672. Series 5, number 8 in the publisher's edition of the complete works of Mozart.

Lucio Silla, to a libretto by Giovanni de Gamerra with additions by Pietro Metastasio, was first performed in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducal on 26 December 1772.

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