W. A. Mozart. Scribal manuscript score of the duet 'Per queste tue manine', K.540b, from "Don Giovanni"

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS

Scribal manuscript score of the duet 'Per queste tue manine', K. 540b, from Don Giovanni

notated in brown ink on one 10-stave system per page, by an unidentified scribe, with some latter additions in another hand, superscribed 'par W. A. Mozart', with a later title on the originally blank first page ("Duetto / dell'Opera Il Don Giovanni / di Mozart / Partitura"), the text beginning 'Per questa tua manina [sic]', scored for trumpets, flutes, oboes, bassoons, violins, viola, bass and soprano and bass voices (designated 'Zettina' and 'Seporto', corrected later to 'Zerlina' and 'Leporello')

19 pages, oblong 4to (20.5 x 35.5cm), ties, no place or date [late C18th or early C19th]

This nowadays rarely performed duet for Zerlina and Leporello was specially composed by Mozart for the 1788 Vienna performance of Don Giovanni.

Mozart's own autograph of the duet is lost.

PROVENANCE:

Formerly in the collection of Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916)