Verdi, Giuseppe, (1813-1901)
IMPORTANT SERIES OF 36 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO SALVADORE CAMMARANO
LOT SOLD.
£358,800
11
Brahms, Johannes, (1833-1897)
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE "GEISTLICHES WIEGENLIED", OP.91 NO.2
LOT SOLD.
224,750 GBP
137
Verdi, Giuseppe, (1813-1901)
AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF A SCENE FROM ERNANI
LOT SOLD.
112,500 GBP
25
Chopin, Frédéric, (1810-1849)
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE OPENING OF THE ÉTUDE OP.25 NO.2, IN A-FLAT MAJOR
LOT SOLD.
112,500 GBP
122
Schumann, Robert, (1810-1856)
UNRECORDED AUTOGRAPH SKETCHLEAF WITH DRAFTS FOR THE SONG "NUR WER DIE SEHNSUCHT KENNT", OP.98A NO.3
LOT SOLD.
47,500 GBP
75
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix, (1809-1847)
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE SONG 'MORGENGRUSS', OP.47 NO.2
LOT SOLD.
40,000 GBP
46
Haydn, Joseph, (1732-1809)
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("JOS HAYDN[PARAPH]"), TO THE BADEN CHOIRMASTER ANTON STOLL, 30 JULY 1802
LOT SOLD.
35,000 GBP
42
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, (1714-1787)
FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("GLUCK"), TO FRANZ KRUTHOFFER, ABOUT HIS OPERAS ALCESTE AND ARMIDE, 29 AUGUST 1776
LOT SOLD.
22,500 GBP
135
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, (1840-1893)
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("P. TCHAÏKOVSKY"), IN FRENCH, [TO JULES MASSENET], ONLY PARTIALLY PUBLISHED, 24 SEPTEMBER 1889
LOT SOLD.
20,000 GBP
124
Schumann, Robert
FINE, LONG AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ROBERT SCHUMANN"), TO LOUIS SPOHR ("HOCHZUVEREHRENDER HERR"), ABOUT HIS SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN B FLAT ('SPRING')
LOT SOLD.
17,500 GBP
RESULTS
This single-owner music sale offered many unrecorded and unpublished letters and manuscripts. The highest price achieved was for Lot 138, the series of thirty-six unknown autograph letters by Verdi about Il trovatore and other operas. Lot 138 was purchased by the Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali in Rome on the eve of the sale for £358,000, a record for a collection of letters by a composer. The printed brochure for this lot is available on request. On the day, good prices were realized for music manuscripts by Brahms, Chopin, Bellini, Schumann and Verdi (his earliest known sketch-leaf), all hitherto unknown. Strong results were obtained with autograph letters by Haydn, Gluck, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Wagner, and for some splendid photographs, including four signed by Brahms, and others by Mahler, Johann Strauss and Puccini.
AUCTION DETAILS
Sotheby’s is honoured to offer for sale fine and important music manuscripts and letters from a distinguished private collection, amassed in the first half of the twentieth century, and unknown and inaccessible since then. It contains a large number of new, unpublished and unrecorded manuscripts including an autograph canon by Beethoven, “Ewig dein”, reported in the 1860s but thereafter untraced, leading modern scholars even to doubt its existence. There are also unrecorded music manuscripts by Chopin, Bellini, Verdi, Schumann and others. Most remarkable is a series of thirty-six mainly unpublished letters by Verdi to one of his most important collaborators Salvatore Cammarano, about composing Il trovatore, Luisa Miller and other operas. There are also music manuscripts by Brahms and Mendelssohn, letters by Haydn, Gluck, Paganini, Berlioz, Rossini, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mahler and Puccini and many exceptional signed photographs.
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