New Mozart Exhibit Features Handwritten Opera Manuscripts and Concert Ticket
Mozart's Haffner Symphony No. 35 in D Major, autograph manuscript, 1782
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg is a new exhibition coming to the Morgan Library which features his writings and personal musical instruments.
A collaboration between the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, on show from March 13 through May 31, it will include items on view in the United States for the first time including the clavichord on which Mozart composed The Magic Flute and his childhood violin, as well as letters and personal objects such as his walking stick.
Among the selection of manuscripts publicly on view together for the first time, primarily from the Morgan’s collection are some of Mozart’s most familiar works in his own hand:
- excerpts from operas such as The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and The Magic Flute (1791)
- his variations on what is now known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- Mozart's Symphony no. 25 in G Minor which serves as the opening theme to the 1984 film Amadeus
- the autograph manuscript of the Piano Concerto in C
“Mozart’s influence is still heard everywhere today," said Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J. Rayner Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, "from piano lessons and concerts to children’s rhymes. Anchored around Mozart’s compositions, the exhibition will offer visitors an unprecedented opportunity to engage with the life and work of an artist whose music they recognize and hold dear.”
