Mozart - Aria “Per questa“ K612 Urtext (Eckert/Glöckler - Viennese tuning)

André ECKERT - Bass Tobias GLÖCKLER - Double Bass (Viennese tuning) ▼ The mysterious story of Mozart’s original autograph ▼ During World War II, in autumn 1941 the German Nazis transferred part of the stock of the Berlin Prussian State Library under strict secrecy to safer places to prevent unique autographs from being destroyed in Allied air-raids. The abandoned castle Fürstenstein (Ksiaz) in today’s Poland was chosen as evacuation site. In 1944 Hitler decided to convert the castle into a luxury Führer Guest House. So the crates with the autographs had to leave to their next hide-out, the nearby Benedictine Abbey of Grüssau (Krzeszow). On May 9th, 1945 Soviet Red Army troops occupied Grüssau without fighting and fortunately not causing any damage. The new Polish authorities (established by the Russians) very soon became interested in the autographs. Only a few months later, in 1946 a mysterious convoy of trucks drove away the crates to an unknown secret place... In 1967 Mozart experts in the West got wind