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watermarks are found in precisely dated Salzburg manuscripts only between 24 June 1784<br />

and 30 May 1785, and are not found in combination with any other watermark. 171 For<br />

manuscripts written in Vienna, great caution would be exercised when drawing conclusions<br />

from such data, since there was a large market for music paper and it is not certain that the<br />

availability of a particular type could be dated so precisely. In Salzburg, however, the market<br />

was much smaller, and the availability of any one type was likely more restricted in<br />

chronological terms. Consequently, the fact that no datable Salzburg manuscript with the<br />

watermarks of the K. 427 parts originates earlier than 1784 leads to the possibility that the<br />

surviving performance materials for the mass were copied after the October 1783<br />

performance. 172 If they were, then we would need to reconsider the disposition of the<br />

premiere at St. Peter’s, the history of the autograph after Mozart’s departure, the possibility<br />

of a lost intermediary source, and the prospect of a further performance of the mass in<br />

Salzburg or elsewhere. To be sure, not all manuscripts from Salzburg have been investigated,<br />

and it is possible that dated sources from 1783 with the watermarks of the Heilig Kreuz parts<br />

will turn up. In the absence of such sources, however, and with uncertainty surrounding the<br />

alleged corrections by Mozart, the partial performance material for K. 427 may yet retain the<br />

capacity to lead scholarship on the C minor Mass in unexpected directions.<br />

The transmission and performance history of the C minor Mass outside the environs<br />

of Salzburg and Heilig Kreuz has been little studied. Most of the music was well-known<br />

through Davide penitente, a work that was widely distributed in both manuscript and printed<br />

171 One type is found in five Michael Haydn autographs beginning with Dilexisti justitiam MH 376 (11.7.84)<br />

and ending with the Symphony in F MH 405 (30.5.85), while the other appears nine times, first in the<br />

autograph of Constitues eos MH 373 (24.6.84) and last in Oculi omnium MH 401 (14.4.85).<br />

172 Estlinger continued to work for Leopold after Wolfgang’s departure, and copied parts for the “Linz”<br />

symphony sometime between May and September 1784; see Cliff Eisen, “New Light on Mozart's 'Linz'<br />

Symphony, K. 425,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 113 (1988): 84.<br />

119

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