At Carolina Rediviva there are music scores written by Mozart himself. They contain ideas for parts of The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito.
![Mozart [VMHS 133, fol.1r]](/Global/Kulturarvsmaterial/Musik/Mozart%20VMHS%20133%20fol.01R.JPG)
From the Masonic Cantata
The small notebook [Vok.mus.hs. 133] is from the composer's final year. After Mozart's death in 1791 his estate was managed by his widow Constanze. Among his possessions there was a small pile of manuscripts which she gave to the Swedish diplomat and music lover Fredrik Samuel Silverstolpe, who had a posting in Vienna in the 1790s. He later willed them to Uppsala University Library.
The volume contains partly a finished work, the Masonic Cantata, Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt (KV 619), partly ideas for the musical dramas that Mozart worked on during the last year of his life: The Magic Flute (KV 620) and La Clemenza di Tito (KV 621). Such drafts are unusual for Mozart who normally wrote down his music directly in its final form, without any need to try it out. There are doodles and additions in the margins of certain pages, the context of which we know nothing, but they have been shown to be in Mozart's own hand.
![Mozart [VMHS 133, fol. 7v]](/Global/Kulturarvsmaterial/Musik/Mozart%20VMHS%20133%20fol.07V.JPG)
From "The Magic Flute"
The donation also included a portrait of Mozart and some songs written by his son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.
Mozart's scores are on view in the Library's Exhibition Hall.
