To celebrate the bicentenary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (December 5, 1791) Philips Classics assembled The Complete Mozart Edition comprised of 180 compact discs arranged into 45 themed volumes. Each volume in the series is accompanied by a deluxe booklet with detailed information about the works, with many illustrations. Indicating the significance of this particular series, the words of the accompanying Compactotheque state, "...after the complete Shakespeare, the complete Goethe, or the complete Molière in book form, here is the Complete Mozart on discs."An altered version of The Complete Mozart Edition was released in 2006. It consists of 17 individual boxed sets. This version also contains stripped down versions of the booklets that accompanied the original series.
In addition, a boxed set entitled The Best of the Complete Mozart Edition was also produced. This set contains 25 compact discs and represents a condensed version of the 1990-91 set.
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