La Clemenza di Tito – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Reduction Score

Few composers of opera come close to the pedigree of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. While his instrumental classical music is also among the best ever written, his operas are perhaps his most lasting contribution the world of formal music. His final opera was ‘La Clemenza di Tito’, or ‘The Clemency of Titus’, is a shorter opera that was written following his most famous opera ‘The Magic Flute’.

This undated 1822 printing of the piano reduction includes both the German and Italian language translations, published in Magonza by Schott.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: La Clemenza di Tito [K. 621] opera seria
• Composer(s): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Contributor(s): Pietro Metastasio (libretto)
• Publisher: Magonza [i.e. Mainz], B. Schott
• Edition: undated, 1822 edition.
• Format: Oblong, folio
• Binding: Modern leather spine with original marbled boards
• Size:  9.75in × 13.25in (25 cm × 33.5 cm)
• Collation: [4], 109, [1] pp
• Contents Include:
  • Entire opera in piano reduction
  • German and Italian language translation
• Provenance: Bookplate of Edward J. Eliot; handwritten inscription: [Baly, Exiter 1870]

Condition:

Very good. Original marbled boards still intact with a modern leather spine, with gilt title. Pages have some fading but no hindrance to music reading. Score is unmarked, which is unusual of music from this era.

Why Collect This?

• An early printing of Mozart’s final opera
• German and Italian libretto text
• Usable, still as a piano reduction printed during the Classical era

Item Number: #28784