This edition is based upon the principal official score (and parts) of the entire funeral music for Gustav III, now in Stockholm at the Statens Musiksamlingar (Operansbibliotek Kyrkomusik 38). The autograph has been lost, possibly because it was used as a model for the publication of the funeral music in piano reduction by Olof hlstrm in May of the same year and subsequently discarded.

The main score was written for the services themselves in the hand of the official state music copyist, Frie...