This previously overlooked advertisement in the Wiener Zeitung on 30 Oct 1784 by music dealer and copyist Lorenz Lausch offers an arrangement for eight-part Harmonie of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Lausch had already advertised such an arrangement in the Wiener Zeitung on 10 Jul 1784, where it was explicitly attributed to Johann Nepomuk Went, oboist in the orchestra of the Viennese court theater and a member of the Harmonie band of Emperor Joseph II (Dokumente, 201; a facsimile of the advertisement of 10 Jul is included in our entry for 8 Jul 1784). The arrangement of Entführung advertised by Lausch on 30 Oct 1784 is almost certainly still Went’s, even though it is unattributed.

The advertisement of 30 Oct 1784 also includes arrangements for Harmonie of Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Seviglia, Gluck’s Die Pilgrimme von Mecca, Sarti’s Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode (“Wenn sich zwey zanken, freut sich der dritte”), and Grétry’s Zemire und Azor. The headline of Lausch’s advertisement refers to Paisiello’s Il re Teodoro in Venezia, which had been commissioned by the court theater in Vienna, and had been premiered there on 23 Aug 1784. On Paisiello’s sojourn in Vienna that year, see our entry “Paisiello and Idomeneo.”

On Lausch, see Edge (2001, 2075–88) and the summary in our entry for 8 Jul 1784 regarding Lausch’s advertisement in Das Wienerblättchen on that date. For other advertisements by Lausch on our site, see our entries for 22 Aug 1789 and 9 Oct 1790.