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Mozart’s Magnificent Music

Result EUR481,000
Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim
Auction on 20 November 2020 - 14:00 (CET) - 3, rue Favart - 75002 Paris

May the concert begin! Two handwritten scores by the genius led the sale con allegro.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), The Marriage of Figaro 1786, autograph manuscript... Mozart’s Magnificent Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), The Marriage of Figaro [1786], autograph manuscript of the first version of the Scena con Rondo, four oblong 4to double-pages, (22.3 x 31 cm., approx. 8.2 x 12.1 in).
Result: €481,000

The auction started out big: one page of the lost Magnificat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), of which only seven bars are known to date, which sold for €101,400. That was just the overture. Next came Mozart’s autograph manuscript of the first version of…
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Friday 20 November 2020 - 14:00 (CET) - Live
3, rue Favart - 75002 Paris
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