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Fine Autograph Music: The Property Of Helmut Nanz And Family
22 May 2018 • London
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45 lots
  • Autograph manuscript of the song "Im Spätboot", Op.56 no.3, signed ("Richard Strauss") AND INSCRIBED TO STRAUSS'S MOTHER ("Meiner lieben Mutter gewidmet")
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph working manuscript of part of "L'Oiseau de feu" ("The Firebird"), signed ("Igor Stravinsky"), [1909]
    Estimate: 30,000 – 40,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph manuscript of the first poetical draft of the libretto of "Tannhäuser"
    Estimate: 200,000 – 300,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to the Baden ambassador in Paris Ferdinand Allesina von Schweitzer ("Hochzuverehrender Herr!"), PARTIALLY PUBLISHED, 9 January 1860
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Important autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to [the music critic Franz Brendel], NOT CONSULTED BY "SÄMTLICHE BRIEFE", 2 October 1860
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Unpublished autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to the wife of the music critic Léon Kreutzer, ABOUT "TANNHÄUSER", 5 February 1861
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to [Franz von Pfistermeister], 15 May [1864]
    Estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("Ihrem guten alten Herrn R. Wagner"), to his servant Franz Mrazek, 7 March 1867
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to [Eduard Lassen], concerning the concert celebrating the laying of the foundation stone of the Bayreuth theatre, 15 March 1872, SUBSTANTIALLY UNPUBLISHED
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED