{"id":1613,"date":"2013-08-15T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2013-08-15T17:39:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T21:39:04","slug":"newly-digitized-1805-mozart-thematic-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2013\/08\/15\/newly-digitized-1805-mozart-thematic-catalogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Digitized: 1805 Mozart Thematic Catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Included in the bulk lot of autograph manuscripts Johan Anton André purchased from Mozart’s widow Constanze in 1799 was Mozart’s Verzeichnüss aller meiner Werke<\/a>, a thematic catalogue of works composed between February of 1784 and November of 1791 (now held by the British Library, and published online with extensive notes in their Digitised Manuscripts collection).1<\/sup> <\/p>\n

Creating a published record of Mozart’s works was a priority for both Constanze and André; and soon after acquiring the manuscripts, André used the Verzeichnüss<\/em> as the basis for a thematic catalogue published in two editions (1805 and 1828). <\/p>\n

\"Thematisches<\/a>

Thematisches Verzeichniss s\u00e4mmtlicher Kompositionen von W.A. Mozart, pg.50-51 (Dec. 1789-June 1790). Merritt Room ML134.M9 A23 (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div><\/em><\/div>\n

This 1805 first edition – the earliest surviving lithographed book – reproduces the format and order of Mozart’s catalogue, while paraphrasing Mozart’s descriptions in German and French. On the verso of each opening, the compositions (usually five per page) are listed by date, title, and instrumentation, while the corresponding musical incipits appear on the recto.<\/p>\n