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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. REMARKABLE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF MOZART'S COPY OF PART OF THE FINALE OF MICHAEL HAYDN'S SYMPHONY IN D MH 287, K.6 ANH. A 52, UNPUBLISHED IN THE NEUE MOZART-AUSGABE comprising the first forty-five bars of Haydn's movement, scored for 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings, notated with an unusually fine and delicate nib in brown ink on one seven-stave system per page, with autograph movement designation ("Fugato:"), 3 pages, oblong 4to (21.2 x 28.4cm), 10-stave paper (Tyson Watermark 68), authentication by Georg Nikolaus von Nissen at the upper right-hand corner of fol. 1r ("Von Mozart und seiner Handschrift"), authentication by Aloys Fuchs, dated Vienna, 25 November 1845, and annotation by John Ella, on fol. 2v, some non-autograph pencil markings, no place or date [Steyr/Linz, November 1783?], mounted at hinge on card, trimmed (probably for John Ella), slightly affecting Mozart's brace at the beginning of fol. 1v and Nissen's authentication on fol. 1r, paper excision, restored, affecting the first two, presumably blank, staves of fol. 2 and a small part of the inner margin of fol. 1, dust-staining, some light spotting, vertical and horizontal creases; together with original half roan gilt folder, with autograph label by Ella ("58 bars. Autograph - Fugue. unpublished...purchased at Vienna 1846 by J: Ella.") and original loose inner paper wrappers inscribed by Ella