MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791

Die Zauberfloete Grosse Oper in zwey Akten ... im Klavierauszug von Musikdir. M.G. Fischer ... Pr. 3 Rthlr. [K620]

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 3439], [ca. 1822].

Oblong folio. Modern dark brown linen-backed marbled boards, black leather title label gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso blank), [1]-124 pp. Typeset. Title and text in German and Italian.

Slightly worn and browned; occasional light foxing; title slightly worn, soiled, creased and frayed at edges with several small chips, minor archival tape repair to verso. Small oval publisher's handstamp to blank lower margin of title, slightly cropped.

A Singspiel in two acts to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, Die Zauberflöte was first performed in Vienna at the Theater auf der Wieden on 30 September 1791. It proved to be one of Mozart's most popular and enduring works.

Michael Gotthard Fischer (1773-1829), the arranger of the present work, was a student of J.S. Bach's pupil J.C. Kittel. He was the organist of the Predigerkirche in Erfurt, where the German Romantic composer and organist August Gottfried Ritter (1811-1885) was one of his pupils.

Item #39273

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