W. A. Mozart. First edition of the motet "Ave verum corpus" K. 618, c. 1808

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Ave verum corpus von W. A. Mozart. Komponirt in Baaden den 18^ten Junius 1791 [K. 618] [score with underlaid piano arrangement], Offenbach: Joh. André, [c. 1808]

FIRST EDITION, 7 pages, oblong 4to (c. 25 x 34cm), lithographed music, plate number 2478, prefatory notice in German and French, unbound, light discolouration to outer pages; together with a vocal score of K. 618 by J. A. Böhme [RISM M 4138], and four loose manuscript vocal parts for the motet, in an unidentified probably C19th hand

The first edition of the sublime Ave verum corpus, written by Mozart in his last year, 1791, for his friend the Baden organist Anton Stoll.

LITERATURE

RISM M 4135; Hoboken 455