Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts - L09775

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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts

08 December 2009 • London

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Sale Number: L09775

1. Containing autograph musical quotations signed by Vaughan Williams, Holst and others at the Incorporated Society of Musicians Festival at Birmingham 1913, including Vaughan Williams (four bars from an unidentified work), Holst (the opening theme of Beni Mora), Havergal Brian (from "Doctor Merryheart", on the day of the premiere), Balfour Gardiner ("Cargoes"), Julius Harrison ("Down Among The Dead Men"), William Wallace, G.R. Sinclair (rebus of "BACH"), Edgar Bainton ("The Cap & Bells"), Harry Keyser, Monk Gould ("The Curfew"), and entries by Albert Sammons and William Watson, 14 pages, oblong 8vo (c.16 x 19.5cms), in the album of Margaret Akeroyd, embroidered cloth covers, the Vaughan Williams quotation misdated, Birmingham, 1-3 January 1913

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

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2. Autograph manuscript of "Le Dîner" [for René Clair's film A nous le liberté], signed ("Georges Auric")

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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3. Autograph manuscript of the "Partita" for two pianos, in three movements, each movement signed and inscribed on the title ("Georges Auric")

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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4. Autograph manuscript of "Neuf pièces brèves" for piano, signed ("Georges Auric"), also including a tenth unpublished piece,

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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6. Vierstimmige Choralgesänge gesammlet von Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Erster (-Zweyter) Theil. Berlin and Leipzig: Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel, 1765-1769

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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7. Mikrokosmos, inscribed to the American composer Douglas Moore ("To Prof Douglas Moore with kind regards Béla Bartók New York, Apr. 25. 1940"), on the first title page, New York: Boosey Hawkes Belwin Inc, 1940

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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9. Good collection, including a caricature of Beecham by Caruso and autograph letters

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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10. Autograph sketch-leaf for the Elegischer Gesang Op.118, and other pieces

Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP

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11. Good characteristic autograph letter signed ("Beethoven"), to Karl Holz, about the String Quartet in B flat, Op.130 and his complicated dealings with publishers in Vienna and Germany

Estimate: 40,000 – 60,000 GBP

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12. Deux Sonates pour le Piano Forte...[5e] Suite du Répertoire des Clavecinistes, [Piano Sonatas Op.31 nos 1 and 2], Zurich, J.G. Nägeli, [1803]

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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13. Fidelio, Eine Grosse Oper in 2 Aufzugen, [vocal score: Act One only], Vienna: Artaria, [1814]

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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14. First and early editions of the Quartet Op.127, Egmont Overture and the Seventh Symphony, including

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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