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This page describes the Music Division's unique music manuscript holdings: Mozart's holograph manuscripts and sketches for his own works, copyist manuscripts of Mozart's works, and manuscript cadenzas to Mozart's piano and violin concertos.
The Music Division holds 11 music manuscripts in Mozart's hand. The physical manuscripts live in several different places in the Music Division's collections, a reflection of how they were acquired. Search for them using the following information:
The following holograph manuscripts are held by the Music Division. Links to their digital copies have been included below when available.
The Music Division also holds a manuscript for Rondo for Soprano in F Major, K. 577, "AI desio, di chi t'adora." It is the sketch of vocal line and connecting wind passages for the Larghetto of a replacement aria for Susanna's "Deh vieni non tardar," in Le nozze di Figaro. The manuscript is part of the John Davis Batchelder collection (Call number: ML31.B4), has not yet been scanned, and has no Online Catalog record available. For more information, see the following 1991 article in The Musical Times:
The Music Division's collections include copyist manuscripts, transcriptions, and arrangements by others of Mozart's music. Only the first item on this list has been digitized and made available online. All other items link to catalog records.
Search for additional related manuscripts in the Online Catalog.
The Music Division holds several holograph manuscripts of concerto cadenzas uniquely connected to Mozart. Only the first two items, cadenzas by the composer and pianist Clara Schumann, have been digitized and made available online. All other items link to catalog records.