“Anekdoten von Mozart.” Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. No. 4. Den 24ten October, 1798; No. 5. Den 31ten October, 1798

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1798. First edition. Two issues of the important journal, unbound as issued, loosely tied together, the first including an installment of Rochlitz's series of biographical essays on Mozart ("Authenticated anecdotes from the life of W.G.M., a contribution to the more correct knowledge of this man, as human being and as artist." [49] - 64 pp.; [65] - 80 pp. The first page browned and with some spots of foxing, else fine.


"It is clear from her letter to Breitkopf & Härtel of 10 October 1799 that Constanze Mozart had a high regard for Rochlitz ('please give my kind regards to the intelligent ('geistreichen') Herr Rochlitz, whom I regard as the future biographer of my late husband...'), and she seems to have encouraged her second husband, Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, to rely heavily on the anecdotes that Rochlitz published in the AMZ (themselves based extensively on her oral testimony). Rochlitz claimed personal acquaintance with Mozart from the time of the latter's nine-day-long visit to Leipzig in May 1789..." (Peter Branscombe, "W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflote," p. 68) (9603)

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