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Harmoniemusik. GOOD COLLECTION OF EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN MUSIC FOR WIND ENSEMBLE, INCLUDING EDITIONS OF MOZART AND BEETHOVEN AND CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPTS BY WENZEL SEDLÁK [PARTS] Beethoven, Ludwig van. Fidelio eine grosse Oper...für neun stimmige Harmonie eingerichtet von Wenzel Sedlak Kapellmeister bey...dem Fürst Johann von Lichtenstein, Vienna: Artaria, [1814], first edition, parts for 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 bassoons ("et contra"), engraved, plate no.2636, containing the overture and 10 numbers from the opera, [Kinsky, p.185; Dorfmüller, p.323] Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Grande Serenade, K.361, Bonn: N. Simrock, [c.1813], arrangment for nine instruments, complete parts for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns in B-flat, 2 bassoons (Fagotto 2do with "grand Fagotto o Contrabasso"), engraved throughout, plate no.994, marked up for performance in blue crayon, [Hoboken 119]--Mozart. Trois Pieces d'Harmonie pour 2 Clarinetti, 2 Hautbois, 2 Bassons et 2 Cors par W.A. Mozart Livr, I. [Deux Pièces...Livr. II], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1801], complete parts, engraved music, plate nos 61 and 63, including arrangements from the Serenade K.361 for eight instruments, Sedlák, Wenzel (1776-1851), Six manuscripts, one with apparently autograph title pages, signed, of his arrangments for wind ensemble (nonets, including "contra"), of operas by Gyrowetz (Agnes Sorel, "accomodata W: Sedlák [paraph]"), Cherubini (Faniska), Méhul ("Die beyden Süesse", [= Une folie]), Weigl (Die Uniform) and Umlauf (Der tiroler Jahrmarkt; Paulo e Rosetta), and an edition of Louis-Luc Persuis's Nina, oder Die Wahnsinnige aus Liebe 11 works (c. 90 volumes in all), folio, the manuscripts on 12-stave paper, complete sets of parts, each comprising of eight or nine volumes, tears to margins, affecting the text in a very few places, some spotting and staining