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church sonatas of Fux and Caldara. 159 As it happens, a copy of the first edition of K. 546 and
a copy of the original two-piano version K. 426 are preserved alongside several other
Hoffmeister prints of Mozart’s music dating from 1787-88, all deriving from the
Kaisersammlung. 160 Given the provenance of these prints, and Hoffmeister’s description of
the author as “Maestro di Cappella in attuale Servizio di S. Majestà I. R.”, it seems worth
investigating whether they might be Mozart’s “dedication copies” to Joseph II or Leopold II.
Mozart was never a member of the church ensemble that constituted the Hofkapelle,
but he was associated with musicians who were on its payroll. Three of the composer’s fellow
Kammerkapelle members, Franz Kreibich, Heinrich Ponheimer and Johann Baptist
Hoffmann were simultaneously members of the Hofkapelle, and the fourth, Thomas
Woborzil, was director of the violins at the Italian opera and no doubt well-known to
Mozart. 161 In late April 1791, Mozart wrote to Puchberg, “Ich hoffe Orsler wird die
Schlüsseln zurückgebracht haben; es war also nicht meine Schuld”, referring to Joseph
Orsler, second cellist in the Hofkapelle. 162 Mozart’s association with Albrechtsberger, the
second Hoforganist at this time is attested by the Orgelprobe they both conducted at St.
Laurenz in 1790, 163 and perhaps also by Mozart’s possession of Albrechtsberger’s six Fughe e
Preludie, op. 6. 164 Even Pasterwitz, who evidently sat on the margins of the institution, might
have been known to Mozart: the composer’s library included Pasterwitz’s VIII Fughe, op.
1, 165 Pasterwitz’s students Franz Xaver Süssmayr and Joseph Lipawsky were both associated
159 Warren Kirkendale, Fugue and Fugato in Rococo and Classical Chamber Music, 2nd ed. (Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press, 1979), 48-9.
160 A-Wn, M.S. 27289-95.
161 Woborzil probably led the orchestra for Mozart’s subscription concert of 23 March 1783; see MVC, 1138-
39.
162 MBA, iv.130.
163 Deutsch, Dokumente, 324.
164 Konrad and Staehelin, Allzeit Ein Buch: die Bibliothek Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts, 89-90.
165 Ibid., 95-6.
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