Il Dissoluto Punito osia Il Don Giovanni. Dramma giocoso in due Atti posto in Musica da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Partitura. 2nd title: Don Juan oder der steinerne Gast komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen in Musik gesezt

Item #1629 Il Dissoluto Punito osia Il Don Giovanni. Dramma giocoso in due Atti posto in Musica da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Partitura. [2nd title:] Don Juan oder der steinerne Gast komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen in Musik gesezt von W. A. Mozart. Mit unterlegtem deutschen Texte nebst sämmtlichen von dem Komponisten später eingelegten Stücken. In Partitur. [Zweiter Akt.] [On covers:] Oeuvres de Mozart. Don Juan. Opéra comique en deux Actes. Acte I. [II.] No. 2 des Partitions. [K.527]. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Il Dissoluto Punito osia Il Don Giovanni. Dramma giocoso in due Atti posto in Musica da Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Partitura. [2nd title:] Don Juan oder der steinerne Gast komische Oper in zwey Aufzügen in Musik gesezt von W. A. Mozart. Mit unterlegtem deutschen Texte nebst sämmtlichen von dem Komponisten später eingelegten Stücken. In Partitur. [Zweiter Akt.] [On covers:] Oeuvres de Mozart. Don Juan. Opéra comique en deux Actes. Acte I. [II.] No. 2 des Partitions. [K.527]

Leipzig: im Verlag der Breitkopf- und Härtelschen Musikhandlung [Breitkopf und Härtel], [1801]. 2 volumes, folio, oblong. Text in Italian and German. Engraved Italian title to the first volume, with oval vignette illustration by Bolt after Kinninger, showing the Commendatore and Don Giovanni in the supper scene. Additional printed, German title to each volume. In contemporary paste paper over cardboard, with the original, publisher’s green printed paper-wrapper mounted onto the front panels of each volume. With paper title vignettes lettered in ink on spines, somewhat worn. 292; (1), 294–590 p. Ownership inscription of Johann Heinrich Feuerstein on the title pages in ink. Cover rubbed, bumped. Foxing throughout, some pages browned. Occasional old notes in black and blue pencil by two different hands. Overall in very good condition.

The Mozart-biographer, Johann Heinrich Feuerstein’s copy of the first edition of the first Mozart-opera to be published in full-score, Don Giovanni.

The present copy of the full score of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, belonged to Johann Heinrich Feuerstein (1797–1850), a medical doctor and Mozart enthusiast, known for finishing Nissen’s work, the first full-length biographical study on Mozart (Biographie W. A. Mozart’s. Leipzig, 1828). The core of the work was put together by Georg Nikolaus Nissen (1761–1826) a Danish diplomat, and the second husband of Constanze Weber Mozart, the composer’s widow. After Nissen’s death, Feuerstein was chosen to complete the work, to assemble and edit Nissen’s voluminous notes and extracts. Although his name appears on the title page of the biography only as the author of the foreword, it is believed that in addition, he wrote the 78-page culmination chapter, Mozart als Künstler und Mensch.

Don Giovanni was the first of Mozart's operas to be published in full score. The score was completed late October 1787, and the opera was first performed in Prague on 29 October 1787, the Vienna premiere took place on 7 May 1788.

Provenance: With Johann Heinrich Feuerstein’s ownership inscriptions on the title pages.