Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Property from the Estate of Sir Ralph and Lady Kohn

K. Weill. Autograph musical quotation signed from "The Threepenny Opera", 1936

Lot Closed

December 12, 10:39 AM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Kurt Weill


Autograph musical quotation of "Der Mensch ist gar nicht gut" from Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)


notated in black ink on two two-stave systems, comprising 8 bars in piano score, with autograph dedication ("Herrn Otto Görner mit besten Wünschen Kurt Weill New York 1936 ["To Herr Otto Görner with best wishes Kurt Weill New York 1936"])


1 page, oblong 8vo, cut from a larger sheet, overall size 35 x 37cm, paper by Carl Fischer Inc., New York ("No. 22-24 lines"), framed and glazed, New York, 1936, central vertical crease

 

 A musical quotation from Weill’s most famous collaboration with Bertholt Brecht, Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), composed in Berlin in 1928. It is the composer’s most enduring work. Weill left Europe in the 1930s and settled in America, where he became a composer on Broadway. He died in New York at the age of fifty in 1950.


PROVENANCE:

Otto Haas

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