W.A. Mozart. First edition of the piano concerto in B flat K.456, and an early edition of the piano concerto K.451

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS

First edition of the piano concerto in B flat K.456, and an early edition of the piano concerto in D K.451

1) Concerto pour le Clavecin, ou Forte-Piano...composé par M^r Mozart. Oeuvre 21^me [K.456] [parts], Offenbach: J. André, no date [1792], FIRST EDITION, complete parts, 18 (piano), 4 (violin I), 4 (violin II), 4 (viola), 3 (bass), 4 (flauto), 3 (oboe I), 3 (oboe II), 3 (fagotto I), 2 (fagotto II), 2 (horn I), 2 (horn II), engraved throughout, plate number 479, vignette-title to keyboard part, some later manuscript additions to the keyboard part, remnant of old paper strip affixed to upper left-hand corner of title  

2) Concerto pour le Piano Forté...composé par M^r Mozart Oeuvre 20^me [K.451][parts], Offenbach: J. André, no date [1792], complete parts, 16 (piano), 4 (violin I), 4 (violin II), 4 (viola), 3 (bass), 4 (flauto), 4 (oboe I), 2 (oboe II), 3 (bassoons I and II), 2 (horn I), 2 (horn II), 1 (trumpet I), 1 (trumpet II), 1 (timpani), engraved throughout, plate number 476, vignette-title to keyboard part, some later manuscript entries in the keyboard part, later manuscript cadenzas for the outer movements on a loose leaf, remnant of old paper strip affixed to upper left-hand corner of title  

the two keyboard parts bound in one volume, 4to (32 x 23.5cm), manuscript paper label to upper cover ("Deux Concertos pour le Pianoforte...Oeuvre 20 & 21"), nineteenth-century paper-covered card wrappers; the other parts uncut and unbound, 4to (c.34 x 25.cm), original stitching holes

LITERATURE:

RISM M 5822 and M 5815; Haberkamp pp.218-219 and 225-226