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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A THREE-PART FUGUE IN C, K. DEEST contained on a leaf once part of the celebrated collection of papers belonging to the English musician Thomas Attwood, and documenting his studies in music theory and composition with Mozart (K.506a), the leaf containing on the reverse an unpublished fugal exercise in F in the hand of Attwood, corrected and revised by Mozart; Mozart's fugue notated in a fluent hand, in a brownish ink, on three three-stave systems (alto, tenor and bass clefs), comprising 31 bars, followed on the otherwise empty staves 9-12 by a fine autograph inscription, signed, by Attwood ("A Fugue, as an example By Mozart - by way of Exercise given to Th.s Attwood 1785 - presented to Dr Hague [Charles Hague, 1769-1821, professor of music at Cambridge] being in the Handwriting of Mozart. Th.s Attwood"); Attwood's fugal exercise notated in a dull brown ink on three three-stave systems (soprano, alto and tenor clefs), comprising 35 bars, with autograph corrections by Mozart in around 15 bars, in a similar but slightly warmer ink, the corrections including Mozart's indication of proscribed parallel fifths and octaves, and followed by a further four bars of seemingly unrelated music in Attwood's hand, apparently a detail from a three-part contrapuntal exercise, possibly also corrected by Mozart (the addition of the last two ties in the upper system, bb.3-4) 2 pages, oblong 4to (c.21.6 x 27.3cm), 12-stave paper (Tyson Watermark 73: quadrant 2b), no place or date [Vienna, probably 1786], trimmed on all sides, a few small tears, including a larger one (c.4.5cm) affecting an unwritten portion of the leaf, repaired, light dust-staining, some damp-staining, very slightly affecting the lower part of the brace and first note of the third system of Mozart's fugue, horizontal, vertical and diagonal folds