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DON GIOVANNI Opera semiseria, in due Atti, musica di A.W. Mozart. Nr. 24 de la Collection.
Paris, Au Magasin de Musique de Pacini, Editeur des Operas de Rossini, Blv. des Italiens, N°11, n.d. (ca.1830-1835), in-f°, 33,5 x 25 cm, engraved title page with a lithographed portrait of Mozart (signed A. Menul, lith. de Engelmann) + 221 pp of engraved music, plate numbers 2700(-2726), contemporary half leather, raised back, marbled boards and endpapters, gilt initials LT on front cover. (Both turn-ins gone, small clear marginal waterstain on title and first leave, but a good copy). Vocal score with the Italian text. The editor Pacini (Naples 1778 - Paris 1866), friend and publisher of Rossini deployed most of his editing activities between 1820-1835. Not in Hirsch.
Partition de Don Juan. Musique de Mozart arrangée pour le Piano. Dédiée à Mme Jubert par l'éditeur. Prix 36. fr.
Paris, chez Carli & Cie, s.d. ( 1811) , in-4°, 33,5 x 26 cm, engraved title + 210 pp of engraved music. Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards, rebacked, manuscript title label on front cover, title page a bit dustsoiled and stained. Interior fine. The score contains a manuscript index, tipped on to the first paste down listing 28 parts (From Simphonia to Duetto '' Per Questa tua manine candide''). The score contains the text in Italian with underneath a French translation. No plate number. The title page with a rubber stamp of Carli & Cie. The printer's name is hidden with a printed strip of paper containing the name of '' Chez Imbault Marchand de musique....''. The publication date is derived from an advertissement in the '' Journal Général de la Littérature de France, 1811, pp. 344 ''.
Il Don Giovanni o sia . Il disoluto punito. Dramma giocoso in duo Atti posto in musica W.A. Mozart. Ridotto per il Cembalo da G. Neefe. Prezzo 16 Francs. (KVZ 527).
15. Bonn, (Bonna e Colonia) Presso N. Simrock , s.d. (1797), oblong in-4°, engraved title + 205 pp with engraved music. Plate number 42. Cont. red half roan, gilt title on smooth spine, binding with some wear at extremities, interior crisp and fine. Köchel Verzeichnis 527. See Köchel pp. 676. This is the first (oldest) complete keyboard transcription of the opera. It gives Lorenzo da Ponte's original Italian, with the German translation by Schröder underneath. The Hirsch collection (Hirsch IV 130) contains a similar but most probably later imprint of this edition with obviously a new title page with the title in German and with excerpts from Simrock's catalogue on the verso of page 205. In our copy this verso is blank. Schnapper (B.U.C.) Vol.II pp.702 describes also a copy with a blank p. 205 verso but with a title in German.
