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MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Six sonates pour Clavecin ou Forté Piano avec l'accompagnement d'un Violon. Dedieés a Son Altesse Serenissime Electorale Madame l’Electrice Palatine ... Oeuvre Premier. Paris: Sieber [1778].
First edition of one of the most famous of all Mozart editions, and also one of the rarest, containing the six violin sonatas K.301-306 (in G major, E flat major, C major, E minor, A major and D major). Haberkamp lists only four copies of the original edition, of which only one is complete. Haberkamp, p. 126 ; RISM M 6475.

2 volumes, oblong quarto (245 x 335mm), comprising both the piano (49pp.) and violin (15pp.) parts. 2 engraved titles, piano volume with publisher’s advert on recto of first leaf 49 pages and price of ‘prix 9lt’ and publisher’s name ‘Sieber’ inscribed in ink on title, engraved throughout (piano volume trimmed close in places into publisher’s inscription on title and the publisher’s advert cropped with very short marginal tear). Original publisher’s paper-covered boards, paper labels with manuscript titles on upper covers (extremities rubbed, stitching a bit loose in piano volume).
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