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HUMMEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK Collection of first and early editions of music for piano duet, piano & chamber ensemble and solo piano, 1820s-1840s 1) Grand Trio pour le Pianoforte, Violin et Violoncelle, op.93, Berlin: E.H.G. Christiani [c.1820-1822], FIRST EDITION, parts for piano, violin and cello (25, 6 & 6 pp.), engraved without plate no. unbound, small tears and foxing to title [Zimmerschied p.138]; 2) Grande-Sonate pour le piano-forte à quatre mains op.92, Vienna: A. Diabelli et Comp, 51 pages, plate no. C. & D. 670, [c.1825]; bound with--Nocturne à quatre mains op.99, FIRST EDITION, Leipzig: au Bureau de musique de C.F. Peters, 27 pages, oblong 4to, including the separate parts for 2 horns ("Corno Primo [... Secondo] in F. ad libitum"), 2 copies (each [4] pages), upright 4to (c.33.5 x 26.5cm), all engraved with plate no.1764, [c.1824]--together with an edition for piano duet of Mozart's string quintet K.593 (Simrock); 3 editions in one volume, oblong 4to, (24.5 x 33cm), contemporary marbled boards, manuscript label to cover, ownership inscription ("Lichtenstein"), [Zimmerschied, p.144]; 3) Grand Septuor op.74, nouvelle édition originale, Vienna: Artaria, engraved throughout, plate no.2451, parts for piano (55 pages), flute, oboe, horn (in F & D), viola, cello & bass, unbound as issued, original stitching; 4) Grand Quintuor op.74 [the composer’s own arrangement], first edition, Artaria, plate no.2452 [c.1816], bound with: Grosses Quintet für das Piano-Forte, Violine, Viola, Violoncell und Contrabass, Vienna: Haslinger [1826], plate no.3801, contemporary boards, ownership inscription (“Marie Lichtenstein”), the string parts unbound: violin, viola, cello and bass [Zimmerschied pp.114 & 130]; 5) Grosses Concert für das Piano-Forte op.85, [parts for piano solo and piano accompaniment], Vienna: Tobias Haslinger, [c.1820], unbound, [Zimmerschied, p.128]; 6) Große Sonate für das Piano-Forte op.81, Vienna: Haslinger [after 1826], engraved additional title (“Musée Musical”), later boards, ownership inscription to title (“Ernst Rudorff. Lichtenstein Nachlass”), some browning; with a reissue of op.81 by Carl Haslinger; 7) Études pour le Piano-Forte op.125, Vienna: Haslinger, [1833], FIRST EDITION, engraved, plate no.6551, publisher’s yellow wrappers, [Zimmerschied p.185]; 8) Ouverture de l'opera Mathilde de Guise [op.100], FIRST EDITION, Leipzig: au Bureau de Musique de Peters [c.1825], plate number 1761 [Zimmerschied, p.149), bound with early piano editions of overtures by Mozart (6, some for piano duet), Spohr, Weber (first edition of "Oberon"), Cherubini, Spontini and others, 13 items in one, oblong 4to, contemporary boards, manuscript label to cove; 9) Favoritrondo für das Piano-Forte op.11, Berlin: F.S. Lischke, [1830s], engraved throughout, plate no.1795; -- 10) Fantaisie op. 18, Lischke, [1820s], first German edition, plate no. 1210, margins repaired at start and end of the volume; --11) Rondo zu Concert pour le Pianoforte op.89, first edition for piano four hands, Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [before 1844]; 12) Rondeau brillant op.109, Vienna: Haslinger, lithographed (later C19), together with other early arrangements of music by Hummel, and arrangements by Hummel of music by Mozart This first edition of the Nocturne op.99 includes the rarely-encountered ad libitum horn parts--not mentioned by Zimmerschied, but called for in the publisher's label affixed to the first page ("On peut aussi accompagner ce Nocturne avec deux Cors dont la Musique est ci-jointe") and engraved with the same plate number. J.N. Hummel (1778-1837) lodged with Mozart in Vienna c.1786-1787, as his pupil, and in return taught Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang. LITERATURE: D. Zimmerschied, Thematisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Johann Nepomuk Hummel, (1971) PROVENANCE: Marie Lichtenstein--Ernst RudorffCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The