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In addition to his work for the court, Sukowaty maintained a commercial business
and produced copies on commission for private buyers. With one exception, Sukowaty’s
known copies of Mozart’s music are limited to the composer’s operatic works. 45 The
exception is a set of parts for Mozart’s Mass in C K. 258 deriving from the “Exner-
Sammlung”, a large collection of music in all genres compiled by August Christian Exner
(1771-1847) in Zittau. 46 The source for K. 258 was described by Erich Valentin in 1943, at
which time the collection was held in the Staatliche Gymnasium in that city. According to
Valentin, the parts for K. 258 and a further source for the ensemble Mandina amabile K. 480
“tragen den Vermerk, daß sie bei dem Wiener ‘Hoftheatral’-Kopisten Wenzel Sukovaty zu
haben waren.” 47 The collection was transferred to the Sächsiche Landesbibliothek in Dresden
in the 1960s, by which time, unfortunately, some items had gone missing. 48 The parts for K.
258 are now missing the wrapper that presumably carried the Sukowaty attribution, and the
soprano part is also lost. 49 In its present state the set consists of single copies of Alto, Tenore,
Basso, Violino Primo, Violino Secondo, Violone, Organo, Clarino Primo, Clarino Secondo
and Tympani; see Figure 3.3. The watermarks consist primarily of a man-in-the-moon
countered by the letters VF, together with a single instance of a “sunburst” countered by the
letters EGA. Both of these suggest a date around 1800. 50 Sukowaty, on the other hand,
45 For a list of such sources, see MVC, 1984-85. One source not mentioned by Edge is a Sukowaty score of Der
Schauspieldirektor, D-Mbs, Mus. Ms. 4185; see NMA, KB II/5/15, 11.
46 See Ortrun Landmann, “Die Dresdener Haydn-Quellen im Hinblick auf Ihre Provenienzen,” in Joseph
Haydn. Bericht über den Internationalen Joseph Haydn Kongress, ed. Eva Badura-Skoda (Munich: G. Henle,
1986), 521-23.
47 Erich Valentin, “"Musikalische Schlittenfahrt": Ein W. A. Mozart Zugesprochenes Gegenstück zu Leopold
Mozarts Werk,” in Augsburger Mozartbuch (Augsburg: J. A. Schlosser, 1943), 447.
48 Dwight C. Blazin, “Michael Haydn and the 'Haydn Tradition': A Study of Attribution, Chronology, and
Source Transmission” (PhD diss., New York University, 2004), 169n32, 229n46. The parts for K. 480 appear
to have entirely disappeared: a single soprano part for the work, D-Dl, Mus. 3972-F-530, does not appear to be
of Viennese origin.
49 D-Dl, Mus. 3972-D-510. The set contains a number of clearly later parts that are not discussed here.
50 Cf. Duda EGA, found in Süssmayr autographs from 1800-1801.
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