In te Domine speravi: MU.MS.606

Titles

In te Domine speravi
In te Domine speravi ; Fuga / [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

Maker(s)

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Associated name: Fuchs, Aloys
Binder (person): James, Angela

Categories

• Manuscript (music)

Description

Two examples of fugal exposition.
First work for SATB unaccompanied ; second work for piano. Both works unfinished: the first work of 34 bars, the second 26 bars.
Thematic cat. nos. K. Anh. 23 (166h) and K. Anh. 41 (375g)
Dated in Köchel 6th edition1773 and 1782, but 1774 and 1776 in Ulrich Konrad's "Fragmente" (Kassel, 2002)
Holograph manuscript in ink
Note at end of first work: "Der Unterzeichnete bestättigt hiermit dass die vorliegende 4stim[m]ige Fuge durchaus die eigenhändige Noten- u. Textschrift des unsterblichen Meisters Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts (geb. 1756, d. 1791) ist. Wien am 23 September 1847, Aloÿs Fuchs, Mitglied der k. k. Hofkapelle in Wien"
Note at end of second work: "Das vorstehende Klavierfuge von W.A. Mozart eigenhändig geschreiben ist, bestättigt, Aloÿs Fuchs, Mitglied der k. k. Hofkapelle in Wien"
Paper: 8 staves (160x265mm); watermark: man holding club in cartouche below crown ; countermark: "ISH" (Tyson WM Nr. 1)
Cover title, in 19th century ms.: "Originale von A.W. Mozart : Eige...um[?] von F.W. Jähns."
Former shelf mark: Music Box III (12)
Received unbound. Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper sides and vellum tips [by Angela James, 1981?]
1.1.1 B In te Domine speravi C F-4 c 4,CC2C+/8C{6DE}{FG}{AB}4'C,G/
1.2.1 kdb Fuga G G-2 xF c 4-''GFE/DE4.F{6ED}/4CD4.'G{6AB}/

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

1774 - 1776