MOZART, W.A.: La Clemenza di Tito. Opera seria ... in due atti. Titus der Großmüthige, eine ernsthafte Oper in zwey Akten. Im Klavierauszuge von Siegfried Schmiedt. [KV 621]. [In Typendruck] Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel (Ohne PlattenNr.) [1795] Folio oblong. Engraved plate, 1 leaf, 110 p., 1 leaf. (errata). Some foxing. Paper browned as usual, minor staining, last leaf (errata) creased in the middle. 21/12 Contemporary half leather binding. Joints of spine partly cracked and missing part at the lover spine. Corners and edges bumped.

THE LAST OPERA OF MOZART VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the piano score. Mozart's last opera work was written under great time pressure in only 18 days. It was commissioned for a festive opera on the occasion of the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia. The premiere took place in 1791, the year of Mozart's death, at the Prague Estates Theater. - With the misprint index, which is missing from some copies. The engraved scene is signed in reverse: Rosmäsler fecit. - The first printing of the score was not published until 1809 by B & H in Leipzig. - RISM M 5097; Haberkamp p. 378f.; Coll. Hoboken 575.