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Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment 1767
106 leaves numbered 1–104. 1 blank leaf between ff.11 & 12; f.7 originally 2 leaves stuck with sealing wax (now separated); 8 other blank pages; staves hand-ruled with stave-pen, 10 to a page, except for one quire 12 to a page | 21.5 cm (Height) x 3.0 cm (Depth) (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1140995
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1767
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Original autograph manuscript in the hand of Mozart.
Wolfgang Amadeus's father Leopold’s label on the front of this music manuscript reads ‘composto nel Mese di Marzo 1766’ - composed in the month of March, 1766. Recent scholars, however, assign the work to March 1767, when the family was in Salzburg and Mozart was 11. The first act of an oratorio, with words by Ignas Weiser, and the second and third acts, now lost, composed by Michael Haydn and Anton Adlgasser, it was first performed in the Archbishop of Salzburg’s Rittersaal on 12 March and repeated on 2 April 1767. The allegorical work is scored for five voices, two tenors and three sopranos, with various combinations of wood-wind, strings and brass. The arias were composed first, since each starts on a recto, and the blank pages all follow the subsequent recitatives.
It is said that the Archbishop, sceptical of Mozart’s genius, incarcerated him with a text to set to music. K.35, once thought to be the product, is too complex with too many corrections by Leopold, and Grabmusick K.42 is now preferred.Provenance
This manuscript belonged to Johan Anton André, Köchel’s predecessor as cataloguer of Mozart’s oeuvre, who noted on f.1r that it is in Mozart’s hand. Purchased by Prince Albert in 1841, and placed in the Royal Library in 1863 by Queen Victoria.
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Medium and techniques
106 leaves numbered 1–104. 1 blank leaf between ff.11 & 12; f.7 originally 2 leaves stuck with sealing wax (now separated); 8 other blank pages; staves hand-ruled with stave-pen, 10 to a page, except for one quire 12 to a page
Measurements
21.5 cm (Height) x 3.0 cm (Depth) (book measurement (conservation))
21.5 x 3.0 cm (book measurement (inventory))
Alternative title(s)
Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots = The duty of the first commandment / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
