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however, the autograph of Ave, verum corpus was in the possession of Stoll at Mozart’s death,<br />

and passed to Joseph Schellhammer in 1805. There is currently no known evidence that<br />

André ever gained access to the autograph, or indeed knew of its whereabouts in early 1800.<br />

Furthermore, André’s own catalogues of the Nachlass – the “Gleissner” catalogue, the<br />

manuscript catalogue of 1833 and the printed catalogue of 1841 – make no mention of any<br />

source for the motet. Yet André must have possessed or gained access to a copy of Ave, verum<br />

corpus, since his firm was responsible for its first publication in 1808. 220 If indeed Constanze<br />

did send André a copy of the motet as part of her delivery of the Nachlass, what form did this<br />

source take? One possibility is that Mozart, having given the autograph to Stoll, prepared a<br />

set of parts or perhaps even a new autograph score of Ave, verum corpus for his own use in<br />

Vienna. This manuscript, now lost, could have been sent to André in 1800, although the<br />

theory is of course weakened by the absence of any reference to such a source in the<br />

publisher’s subsequent catalogues. The 1808 print does display a number of minor variants<br />

that could conceivably indicate its derivation from an “authentic” source other than Stoll’s<br />

autograph, but they could equally have arisen in an intermediary copy of the surviving<br />

score. 221 For the moment, the question of what kind of source André had for Ave, verum<br />

corpus must remain unanswered.<br />

One further manuscript that may be connected with Mozart and Baden has yet to be<br />

mentioned. In 1965, Hellmut Federhofer recovered part of the estate of Ferdinand Bischoff<br />

(1826-1<strong>91</strong>5), a legal scholar based in Graz. The collection, which Federhofer acquired for<br />

himself, contained several autograph sources by Mozart, in addition to copies by Aloys Fuchs<br />

220 The publication was announced in the Intelligenz-Blatt to the AMZ in January 1808 (col. 19).<br />

221 At least three editions of the print seem to have appeared. The earliest (exemplar: US-CA, Mus 745.1.581<br />

BMEO) notates the upper vocal parts in soprano, alto and tenor clefs. Two further editions (Ibid., 745.1.581<br />

Merritt Room and 745.1.581 PHI) employ “modern” treble and bass clefs, and one advertises the existence of<br />

printed parts (not included in the Harvard exemplar). A copy of the motet by Maximilian Stadler (A-Wn, Mus.<br />

Hs. 37879) has no textual significance.<br />

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