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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
20 November 2014 • London
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207 lots
  • Autograph manuscript of the opéra-comique "Fior d'Alisa", signed "Victor Massé"
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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  • Autograph manuscript of the opéra-comique Le fils du brigadier
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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  • Der Vollkommene Capellmeister, Das ist Gründliche Anzeige aller derjenigen Sachen, die einer wissen, können, und vollkommen inne haben muss, der einer Capelle mit Ehren und Nutzen vorstehen will, Hamburg: Christian Herold, 1739
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Autograph letter, signed ("Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy"), to Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie in Berlin ("Hochgeehrter Herr Musikdirector"), concerning a Berlin performance of Paulus
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Autograph letter about a portrait, signed ("Pietro Metastasio"), to Contessa Angelica Bertolini Cataldi
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la musique...dedié à Monsieur Couperin, Paris: the Author & Foucault, 1709
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Concerto pour le Clavecin, ou Forte-Piano, avec accompagnement de plusieurs Instruments...Oeuvre 21me [parts], Offenbach: André, [1792]
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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  • Tre Quartetti per due Violini Viola e Basso...Opera N.o [manuscript:] 18 [parts], Vienna: Artaria, no date [1790s]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • First and early editions of string quartets and quintets, in parts
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • One first and two early editions of instrumental music
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Portrait miniature of Mozart, GIVEN BY THE COMPOSER TO HIS COUSIN MARIA ANNA THEKLA MOZART (THE BÄSLE), OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT AUCTION BY DESCENDANTS OF HER FAMILY
    Estimate: 200,000 – 300,000 GBP
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  • Manuscript of the unpublished staged version of the opera-tango "Maria de Buenos Aires" (1987), with additional autograph music by Piazzolla, autograph letters by him about the opera and 17 stage designs, including:
    Estimate: 40,000 – 50,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED