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now lost, so we will never know if Salieri’s addition in the score was ever put to practical<br />

use. 242 The parts for K. 337 are incomplete in other ways: even when the dispersed<br />

manuscripts are put back together from their three signatures, most of the string and<br />

woodwind parts are still missing.<br />

Where did Salieri obtain this mass? Perhaps it was via Mozart himself or Constanze,<br />

but it need not have been. The music dealer Johann Traeg is of particular interest here, as he<br />

seems to have been the only commercial distributor in Vienna to carry sacred music. 243 Even<br />

more unusually, Traeg thought there was a market for Mozart’s sacred music, as he was<br />

willing to advertise it on a number of occasions. Traeg’s earliest advertisement to mention<br />

Mozart’s sacred music appeared in the Wiener Zeitung on 27 July 17<strong>91</strong>, and announced the<br />

availability of unspecified “Messen, Oratorien und Mottetten von Mozart, Haydn,<br />

Albrechtsberger, Schmittbauer, Pleyel, Wanhall &c. alles um billigen Preis.” 244 There seems<br />

no way to identify precisely which of Mozart’s sacred works Traeg had from this<br />

advertisement, but some insight can be provided from an inventory of the shop drawn up in<br />

February 1796 for the Lower Austrian Merkantil und Wechselgericht. 245 Here Traeg listed no<br />

fewer than nine Mozart masses and an unspecified gradual that is probably Misericordias<br />

domini; see Figure 3.24. 246 Works by Haydn, Schmittbauer and Vanhal appear as well, but<br />

those by Albrechtsberger and Pleyel do not. The “Offertorium” by Michael Haydn may well<br />

242 Frühwald’s inventory of the parts on the title wrapper of K. 337 lists “Viola ripie:”.<br />

243 The ÖNB’s card for a set of parts for Michael Haydn’s C minor Requiem, A-Wn, F 24 St. Peter A 419,<br />

alleges the set comes “a. d. Schreibstube Lausch.” While copyists who worked for Lorenz Lausch may indeed<br />

appear in the set, Lausch himself is not known to have dealt in sacred music.<br />

244 MVC, 801.<br />

245 A-Wsa, Merkantil- und Wechselgericht, A3/93, Nr. 58 (Traeg). As far as I am aware, the first study to cite<br />

this collection was Friedrich Slezak, Beethovens Wiener Originalverleger, vol. 17, Forschung und Beiträge zur<br />

Wiener Stadtgeschichte (Wien: F. Deuticke, 1987), <strong>91</strong>-4.<br />

246 MVC, 829, 1173, 1179-80.<br />

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