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separated was high. 218 A further complicating factor is the activities of Louis Dité, the
Hofkapelle’s organist and music librarian in the mid-twentieth century, who appears to have
acquired some of the most interesting items from the archive. 219 Fortunately, many of the
items from the Dité collection eventually found their way to the Austrian National Library
in 1985, where they are now catalogued separately. 220 As a result of these disruptions, what
was originally a single set of parts may now be dispersed across two or three signatures,
having been acquired by the library piecemeal over a period of two decades. The most
complex case here is the parts for K. 337: HK 1810 which arrived in 1981 contains the Basso
Concerto for K. 337 and unrelated parts for K. 258, Mus. Hs. 39148 from 1985 contains
the Maestro di Cappella and organ parts from Dité, and HK 2877 contains the main body of
the parts as transferred in 2000. Given the Neue Mozart Ausgabe’s cursory attitude to early
copies, it is perhaps not surprising that almost all of these sources are unknown to the
relevant NMA volumes.
On the evidence of the paper, it seems that most of these sources date from the late
1790s or around 1800. The Krönungsmesse is no exception: although there is no surviving
score of it in Hofkapelle collection, the parts for the mass almost certainly do not date from
1791-92 but rather about a decade later, as Pfannhauser himself noted. 221 The set is now
incomplete as all the soprano and alto parts are missing, but the two principal watermarks
consist of a single man-in-the-moon countered by a fleur-de-lys over the letters FV, and
218 A-Wn, HK 1812 is a very large collection of miscellaneous duplicate parts for unidentified works of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; these parts have yet to be studied and reunited with the sets to which they
originally belonged.
219 Brosche may be alluding to this problem when he refers to “illegal” transfers of small parts of the collection
“über diverse Nachlässe”; Brosche, “Besondere Neuerwerbungen,” 489.
220 On Dité, see Martin Haselböck, “Die Wiener Hoforganisten,” in Musica Imperialis: 500 Jahre
Hofmusikkapelle in Wien, 1498-1998 (Tutzing: Schneider, 1998), 258. Catalogues of the Dité collection are in
A-Wn, Inv. II/Dité 1-2.
221 Pfannhauser, “Mozarts 'Krönungsmesse',” 8. Landon, despite relying on Pfannhauser for his information,
incorrectly states that the parts for K. 317 date from “about 1790”, 1791: Mozart’s Last Year, 104.
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