3253: 2 vols. Mozart Wolfgang (Amadeus). Four Start Price USD 6,000.00 Current Price USD 21,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 18 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Philadelphia, PA See more about '3253: 2 vols. Mozart Wolfgang (Amadeus). Four' Description Current Lot 2 vols. Mozart, Wolfgang (Amadeus). Four Sonatas for The Harpsichord with Accompaniment for a Violin, Composed by Wolfgang Mozart, Seven Years of Age. London [for Leopold Mozart, 1765]. First London edition of the Sonatas [K.6-9]. 2 parts: harpsichord: 1 f. title, pp. 2-14 (Sonata I-II); pp. 1-9 (Sonata I-II, corrected in ink to "III" & "IV"); violin: 1 f. title, pp. 2-5 (Sonata I-II); pp. 2-5 (Sonata I-II, corrected in ink to "III" & "IV"). Oblong folio, early 20th-Century 1/2 brown morocco & cloth. Scattered light foxing, but internally generally clean & crisp, good margins. Several early ink & pencil corrections. These four sonatas were first issued by Leopold Mozart as two separate collections in Paris in February & April 1764. When the Mozart family moved in early 1765 from Paris to London, Leopold carried the Paris plates with him and issued in 1765 a new edition for the English public, combining for this the plates of both previous Paris collections. This copy, therefore contains two consecutive paginations. Page 5 of Sonata IV of the violin part contains old ink corrections, most likely in Leopold Mozart's hand - three half-notes are canceled & replaced by six quarter-note rests. Ink corrections on p. 5 of the violin part of the Sonata II are less likely to be in Leopold's hand. In a letter dated December 6, 1764, Leopold writes of mistakes in press of the Paris edition, then corrected in his hand, corresponding to the corrections on p. 4 in Sonata IV. Kochel 6-9; Haberkamp, 1: 68 & 71 (mentioning 1 copy of the Paris edition with corrections, attributing them to Leopold's or Wolfgang's hand); RISM M 6463 (locating 3 copies) Place a Bid!