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then Hofbibliothek in Vienna, where they remain today. 191 The fate of the autograph of K.
275 is less certain: there is no clear indication that Schellhammer ever possessed it, and it is
lost today. Stoll may have possessed one other autograph of a rather surprising kind, as
Constanze explained to Johann André on 31 May 1800:
Eine Originalsynfonie von Mozart (ob just diese, weiss ich nicht) soll Hr. Stoll, Regens chori
Chor=Rector in Baden – unweit Wien, haben. 192
The source of Constanze’s information is unknown, and it is equally unclear which of
Mozart’s symphonies Stoll might have possessed and how he might have obtained it.
We have no direct evidence that Mozart himself gave the autographs to Stoll, but a
copy of K. 337 based on the autograph bears a note supporting this supposition (see below),
and it is difficult to see how else the Stoll could have acquired them. Exactly when Stoll
received the scores, and whether they were delivered as a group or in a more piecemeal
fashion, we do not know. Given the care with which Mozart guarded his manuscripts, it is
unlikely that the composer gave the autographs to Stoll with no expectation of ever receiving
them back, the elaborate apology for K. 275 notwithstanding. It is a self-evident but
important point that Mozart had every expectation of living beyond 1791 until the very last
days of his illness, so in no sense could this gesture be construed as a valedictory gift. The
mostly likely explanation, then, for Mozart’s delivery of the autographs to Stoll was to
191 See Federhofer, “Mozart-Autographe.” In addition to the items from Schellhammer’s Nachlass listed by
Federhofer in A-Gmi, A-Wn preserves two items associated with Schellhammer. Mus. Hs. 3363 is a manuscript
copy of the Haydn lieder collections published by Artaria, to which Mozart’s song Der Frühling K. 597 was
later added. The title reads, “26 Lieder auf das Pianoforte. Dal Sig. Haydn. Ex rebus Giuseppe Schellhammer,
provisorischer Regens-Chori und Organist in Baden. 1803.” The fact that Schellhammer was “provisional”
regens chori in Baden seems to be previously unknown. According to Willander, Schellhammer’s hand appears
in a set of parts from the Baden collection for Haydn’s Grosse Orgelmesse (A-Wn, Fonds 4 Baden 146); Alfred
Willander, “Das Kirchenmusikarchiv der Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan zu Baden mit Beiträgen zu Einer
Musikgeschichte der Stadt Baden” (PhD Diss., Universität Wien, 1972), xii. A-Wn, MS 23645 is a copy of the
first edition of Beethoven’s sonata op. 27 no. 1 with the note, “Ex rebus Joseph Schellhammer.” A similar note
appears on the autograph of K. 618 and the autograph of Süssmayr’s Ave verum corpus SmWV 121, now H-Bn,
Ms. Mus. 3000.
192 MBA, iv.355.
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