Mitridate Re di Ponto. Opera seria in 3 Acten. Partitur. [KV 87]. [Full score]
- Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W.A.M.87], 1881
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN W.A.M.87], 1881. Folio. Publishers decorative wrappers. 1f. (series title), [ii] (cast list and index), 177 pp. Engraved.
Signature of the Swiss composer and writer on music "Erhart Ermatinger [1900-1966] Berlin 1921" 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 slightly worn and chipped, upper and series title detached. First Edition. Köchel 8, p.119. Hirsch III, 658. Series V, number 5 in the publisher's edition of the complete works of Mozart.
Mitridate was Mozart's first Italian opera composed on his first visit to Italy when he was just 14 years old. Set to a libretto by Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi after Jean Racine and Giuseppe Parini, the work was first performed in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducale on 26 December 1770 with great success.
Signature of the Swiss composer and writer on music "Erhart Ermatinger [1900-1966] Berlin 1921" 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 slightly worn and chipped, upper and series title detached. First Edition. Köchel 8, p.119. Hirsch III, 658. Series V, number 5 in the publisher's edition of the complete works of Mozart.
Mitridate was Mozart's first Italian opera composed on his first visit to Italy when he was just 14 years old. Set to a libretto by Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi after Jean Racine and Giuseppe Parini, the work was first performed in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducale on 26 December 1770 with great success.