Documents

1769

*11 Dec. Count Georg von Arco’s letter of recommendation for the Mozarts

*27 Dec. Count Domenico Lodron’s letter of recommendation for the Mozarts

1770

*5 Jan. Ottaviano Dionisi on Mozart in Verona

8 Jan. Mozart in the diary of Veronese painter Giambettino Cignaroli

Mar. Mozart’s Op. 1 & 2 in the sale of the library of the Duc de Chaulnes

*4 Apr. Mozart and Count Firmian (Firmian’s letter of recommendation to Prince Doria Pamphilj)

*30 Aug. Burney and Mozart in Bologna (correction)

*Giovenale Sacchi on Mozart the prodigy

1771

*1 Jan. Princess Maria Beatrice d’Este attends Mitridate

*9 Jan. Count Firmian recommends Mozart to Count Lascaris di Castellar

*16 Jan. On the reception of Mitridate

*26 Jan. Carlo Flaminio Raiberti to Antonio Greppi on a scrittura for Mozart in Turin

*24 Feb. Gradenigo on Mozart in Venice

14 Sep. Ascanio in Alba in Milan (addendum)

*9 Nov. Count Rogendorf on Ascanio in Alba

Linley and Mozart as “the most promising geniusses of this age” (addendum)

1772

*2 Jan. Francesco Galoardi visits the Mozarts in Salzburg

*29 Nov. Countess Antonia von Lodron to Count Wolkenstein

Richard Griffith on Mozart as prodigy (addendum)

1774

20 Apr. Mozart's choruses for Thamos, König in Ägypten

1775

17 Jan. Hugh Elliot reports on La finta giardiniera in Munich

1778

Giovenale Sacchi on Mozart in Milan

1780

1 May. Johann Böhm and Die verstellte Gärtnerin in Augsburg

20 Dec. An early report on Idomeneo

Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart mentioned in a survey of institutions of higher learning

Mozart listed among prominent keyboard players

1781

*23 Mar. Zinzendorf hears Mozart on violin

24 Dec. Emperor Joseph II and Grand Duchess Maria Fyodorovna wager on the Mozart-Clementi duel

Samuel Wesley gives his opinion of Mozart's music

1782

8 Oct. The Count and Countess of the North at Die Entführung aus dem Serail

*5 Dec. Joseph II on the Mozart-Clementi duel (addendum)

*6 Dec. Louise von Diede plays Mozart and Bach at Countess Oeynhausen’s

Mozart in a musical almanac (addendum)

1783

24 Jan. The premiere of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Strasbourg

23 Mar. Mozart’s academy in the Burgtheater (addendum)

26 Apr. Mozart listed among composers of keyboard concertos for sale

8 May. The premiere of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Warsaw

22 Jun. The premiere of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Bonn

4 Oct. The premiere of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Leipzig

25 Nov. Porwanie z seraju (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) in Warsaw

Mozart as imagined composer for a melodrama on Prometheus Bound

1784

17 Apr. Announcement of the first performance of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Mannheim (addendum)

5 Nov. Box-office receipts from Die Entführung aus dem Serail in the Kärntnertortheater

Paisiello and Idomeneo

Mozart listed among "Berühmte Compositoren und Musiker"

1785

13 Mar. Announcement of a concert of the Tonkünstler-Societät

28 Nov. A report on the Viennese premiere of La villanella rapita

Nov. Mozart and the Fortepiano

1785–1789. Countess Hatzfeld sings Elettra’s “Tutte nel cor vi sento” in Bonn

1786

7 Jan. A report on concerts of the Viennese Tonkünstler-Societät (addendum)

12 Jan. La villanella rapita in Vienna

Mar. Idomeneo at Prince Auersperg’s

23 Mar. Hugo von Hatzfeld writes to Großmann regarding Idomeneo

7 Apr. Mozart’s academy in the Kärntnertortheater (addendum)

3 May. A report on the premiere of Le nozze di Figaro (Münchner Zeitung)

7 May. A report on the premiere of Le nozze di Figaro (Gazzetta universale)

10 May. A report on the limitation of encores in the Viennese court theaters (Mannheimer Zeitung)

16 May. A report on the reception of Le nozze di Figaro (addendum)

3 Jun. Le nozze di Figaro at Laxenburg

14 Dec. A piano sonata by Mozart on a concert in Philadelphia

Mozart on a list of subscribers to Friedrich Hegrads komischer Roman

Schubart on ‘Mozart the shimmering’ (addendum)

The Mozarts as composers of violin concertos, sonatas and symphonies

1787

18 Jan. Mozart's invitation to Prague

28 Feb. Mozart benefit concert in the Kärntnertortheater

Feb/Mar. Joachim Perinet and “Mozarts Fortepiano”

30 Mar. The source for Mozart’s entry in Kronauer’s Stammbuch

30 Mar. Mozart piano concerto performed at a concert in Prague

27 Jun. A notice of Leopold Mozart's death

26 Sep. Die Entführung aus dem Serail in a Viennese list of libretti for sale

14 Oct. Le nozze di Figaro in Prague (addendum)

29 Nov. Mozart in competition with Martín y Soler

22 Dec. Gluck's pension divided between Mozart and other musicians

Intrigues against Idomeneo in Munich (1780–1781)

A reference to Mozart in Kaffka's Sechs Freyer und keine Braut

A reference to Figaro in the novel Das Leben eines Lüderlichen (spurious document)

Mozart sacred songs for St. Nicholas church in Prague

1788

12 Jan. A Masonic musical academy in Vienna

26 Feb. Anton Grams advertises Don Giovanni (Bayreuther Zeitung)

22 Apr. Friedrich Himmel performs a Mozart piano concerto in Dresden (addendum)

Early 1788. Mozart conducts Bach's Die Auferstehung and Handel's Judas Maccabeus

18 May. Figaro in Lübeck (spurious document)

11 Aug. Preisler hears Josepha Hortensia Müller play sonatas by Mozart and Auernhammer

17 Nov. Christoph Heinrich Girbert orders Entführung from Breitkopf

A four-hand piano sonata by Mozart in a story by Musäus

Mozart listed among German composers

1789

21 Mar. A comparison with Mozart in a review of four-hand sonatas by Baron Münchhausen

23 Apr. A name day concert in Vienna with Mozart’s “newest symphonies”

May. Johann Jakob Engel and Mozart in Berlin

29 Aug. A review of the first Viennese revival of Le nozze di Figaro

6 Oct. A piece by Mozart on a concert in New York City

13 Oct. A review of the premiere of Don Giovanni in Bonn

28 Oct. Freystädtler advertises his Die Belagerung Belgrads with an endorsement from Mozart

14 Nov. The premiere of Die Hochzeit des Figaro in Bonn

28 Nov. Mozart minuets in a collection offered by subscription by Carl Immanuel Engel

A reference to Mozart in Kotzebue’s Menschenhaß und Reue

Mozart in a list of a composers whose music is suitable for practice on the organ

Mozart listed among composers and keyboard players (addendum)

1790

26 Jan. Report of the first performance of Così fan tutte

6 May. Mozart keyboard sonata performed at a concert in Calcutta

6 & 13 Jun. The Keilholz sisters in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Don Juan in Mannheim

9 Oct. Lausch advertises “Nun liebes Schätzchen” from Der Stein der Weisen

20 Oct. Mozart performs at a concert in Mainz

22 Oct. Mozart leads a rehearsal of Die Hochzeit des Figaro in Mannheim

24 Oct. The premiere of Die Hochzeit des Figaro in Mannheim

3 Nov. Mozart and Sterkel's variations on “Lison dormait”

28 Dec. A newly-invented keyboard instrument that will not go out of tune

An overlooked reference to Mozart in Böcklin's Beyträge zur Geschichte der Musik (addendum)

Mozart listed among composers

1791

9 Feb. The Habsburg court and guests attend Le nozze di Figaro (Gazzetta universale)

13 Feb. The Habsburg court and guests attend Der Stein der Weisen (Wiener Zeitung)

[between 12 Mar and 23 Aug]. Johann Friedrich Jünger asks Mozart for a keyboard piece

1 May. Schröder and Kotzebue at the premiere of Liebe und Versuchung (Così fan tutte)

10 May. Josepha Beck sings an aria from Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Schröder

May–Jun. Mozart named successor to Hofmann at St. Stephen's Cathedral

Summer. Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Thurn und Taxis court in Dischingen

13 Jul. Walburga Willmann as a student of Mozart

23 Aug. A piano sonata by Mozart in Jünger’s Er mengt sich in Alles

1 Oct. The earliest published report on the premiere of Die Zauberflöte

5 Oct. Mozart is awarded the third receipts from Die Zauberflöte

8 Oct. An early report on Die Zauberflöte (addendum)

10 Oct. Mozart mentioned in a review of Sarti’s Le gelosie villane

12 Oct. Review of Don Juan in the Nationaltheater in Berlin (addendum)

24 Oct. Reference to Mozart in a review of keyboard variations by Joseph Augustin Gürrlich

28 Nov. On the reception of La clemenza di Tito in Prague

5 Dec. Mozart as a model for the use of wind instruments

5 Dec. A reference to Mozart’s symphonic minuets

6 Dec. The earliest dated report of Mozart’s death

7 & 10 Dec. Two French reports of Mozart’'s death

12 Dec. A report of Mozart’s death

18 Dec. Elector of Cologne gives Constanze 24 ducats

23 Dec. A benefit concert in Vienna for Constanze Mozart

23 Dec. A notice of Mozart’s death in Schubart’s Chronik

27 Dec. The earliest detailed report on Mozart’s Requiem

Mozart as leading composer and "bewunderungswürdiger" pianist (I)

Mozart as leading composer and "bewunderungswürdiger" pianist (II)

A reference to Mozart in a theological tract

References to Mozart’s music in a harmony treatise

*A reference to Mozart in Frambach’s play Menschenwerth

Dec 1791–Jan 1792. Notices of Mozart’s death in various English periodicals

Dec 1791–Feb 1792. Notices of Mozart’s death in German newspapers

1792

2 Jan. Mozart in a review of Bibliothek der Grazien, 2. Jahrgang

6 Jan. The earliest known Dutch notice of Mozart’s death

31 Jan. A memorial concert for Mozart in Kassel (addendum)

13 Feb. Review of Mozart's variations, K. 359 & K. 455

19 Feb. A memorial concert for Mozart in Hamburg

19 Feb. A personal response to the Mozart memorial concert in Hamburg and the Symphony in E-flat (K. 543)

5 Mar. Mozart symphonies performed in Berlin concerts

18 Mar. Bernhard Wessely’s cantata Mozarts Urne at a memorial concert for Mozart in Berlin (addendum)

23 Jun. Bernhard Wessely, subscription for Mozarts Urne

7 Aug. Die Zauberflöte in preparation for Frankfurt

Sep. The improvement of the orchestra of the Nationaltheater in Berlin under Wessely (with reference to Figaro)

21 Sep. The earliest known performance of Die Zauberflöte outside Vienna

25 Oct. The premiere of Die Zauberflöte in Prague

Nov. Bernhard Wessely reviews Mozart’s Eine machts wie die andre (Così fan tutte)

1793

Mozart comments on “Haydn's” Toy Symphony