Mozart manuscript auctioned in Berlin
A Mozart manuscript has been auctioned off by the Berlin auction house J.A. Stargardt for 130,000 euros to a private bidder from the USA. It contains violin parts for orchestral dances and sketches for a concerto.
The manuscript contains the complete first violin part for two orchestral dances, No. 4 of the Five Contredances K. 609, and No. 1 of the Two Quadrilles (Minuets with Contredances) K. 463 (448c), as well as three sketches for the program of his famous concert in the old Vienna Burgtheater on 23 March 1783. The manuscript seems to be unknown to Mozart scholars and is not recorded in the literature.
According to the auction house, the document comes from a 19th century German private collection. It was refurbished by John Arthur, Perranwell Station, Great Britain.
