Lot 1135
Mozart's Magic Flute House. Vintage original hand-colored lithograph with "Mozart - Gartenhäuschen Salzburg" in pencil below the house and above a musical quotation from "The Magic Flute" and a profile of Mozart, c. late 1900s. Plate size is 7 5/8 x 4 3/8"; sheet is 11 ¾ x 9¾" (sight). Framed to 13 x 11". Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) stayed in this house, in the summer of 1791 and wrote parts of "The Magic Flute" there; the house was in Vienna at the time but in 1873, it was relocated to Salzburg and was placed in the possession of the International Mozart Foundation. "The Magic Flute" premiered on Sept. 30, 1791, and Mozart died on Dec. 6, 1791.
Estimated Value $500 - 750.
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