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MOZART, Franz Xaver Wolfgang (1791-1844). Autograph music manuscript, signed and inscribed, 'Zur freundlichen Erinnerung an W.A. Mozart', Hamburg, 28 October 1819, of a song, Seufzer ('Die Nachtigall singt überall', text by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty), one of the Sechs Lieder, op.21 (1820), for voice and piano accompaniment, 20 bars in two systems of three staves, on two pages, oblong 8vo (137 x 205m).
Franz Xaver was the youngest child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born only four months before his father's death: he was always known, and signs himself here, by his father's first names. He was declared by Salieri, one of his glittering array of teachers, to have 'a rare talent for music', and to be capable of a career 'not inferior to that of his celebrated father' (letter of 30 March 1807, quoted in Grove 7), but in the event his natural diffidence kept him firmly in the shadow of his father's reputation, and his letters and manuscripts are now notably rare. This attractively melancholic setting was one of a group published by Cranz in Hamburg in the middle of an extended concert tour which took Franz Xaver from Kiev to Copenhagen, through Germany and into northern Italy.
Franz Xaver was the youngest child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born only four months before his father's death: he was always known, and signs himself here, by his father's first names. He was declared by Salieri, one of his glittering array of teachers, to have 'a rare talent for music', and to be capable of a career 'not inferior to that of his celebrated father' (letter of 30 March 1807, quoted in Grove 7), but in the event his natural diffidence kept him firmly in the shadow of his father's reputation, and his letters and manuscripts are now notably rare. This attractively melancholic setting was one of a group published by Cranz in Hamburg in the middle of an extended concert tour which took Franz Xaver from Kiev to Copenhagen, through Germany and into northern Italy.
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