Location of Autographs of The Concertos
The autographs of the concertos owned by Mozart's widow were purchased by Johann Anton André in 1799,and most of these passed into the collections of the Prussian State Library in Berlin in 1873. Other autographs owned by Otto Jahn had been acquired in 1869. A few parts of André's collection remained for a long time in private hands; hence, in 1948 when Hutchings compiled the whereabouts of the autographs, two (Nos 6 and 21) were in the hands of the Wittgenstein family in Vienna, whilst No. 5 was owned by F. A. Grassnick in Berlin and No. 26 by D. N. Heinemann in Brussels; a few others were scattered around other museums. In the last 50 years, however, all of the extant autographs have made their way into libraries. The entire Prussian State collection of autographs was evacuated during World War II to the eastern front, where they disappeared and were feared lost until the 1970s. At this point they resurfaced in Poland and are now held in the Jagiellońska Library in Kraków. In addition, various copies used by Mozart and his family have come to light. The list of locations of the autographs given by Cliff Eisen in 1997 is:
KV: 37, 39-41: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
KV. 175: Autograph lost; Mozart family copy: Archabbey of St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 238: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Mozart family copy in St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 242: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Other copies: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Stanford University Library.
KV. 246: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart family copy, St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 271: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart family copy, St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 365: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart family copy, St Peter's, Salzburg; performance copy in Statni Zamek a Zahrady, Kromeriz, Czech Republic.
KV. 413: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart copy (incomplete), St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 414: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart copy (incomplete), St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 415: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart copy, St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 449: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart family copy, St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 450: Thüringische Landesbibliothek, Weimar, Germany.
KV. 451: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków. Mozart family copy, St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 453: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
KV. 456: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
KV. 459: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
KV. 466: Bibliothek und Archiv, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna. Mozart family copy, St Peter's, Salzburg.
KV. 467: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
KV. 482: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
KV. 488: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
KV. 491: Royal College of Music, London.
KV. 503: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
KV. 537: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. A fascimile has been published by Dover Publications.
KV. 595: Jagiellońska Library, Kraków.
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