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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts
08 December 2009 • London
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Sale Number: L09775
204 lots
31. Two autograph musical quotations, signed by Debussy, of the "Golliwog's Cake Walk" from the Children's Corner Suite, and by Dukas from Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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32. Autograph letter signed ("ClaudeDebussy"), to the producer Pierre-Bathélemy Gheusi, about La boîte à joujoux, explaining that they do not have time to finalize everything, and suggesting that they leave things as they are and see if Mme Carré can help sort it out ("...puisque vous avez ce qu'il vous faut..."), 1 page, 8vo, blue printed stationery, Paris, 80, Avenue de Bois de Boulogne, dated in another hand [2 June 1914]; together with a letter by Jacques Durand, about "Pelléas et Mélisande", 4 June 1914
Estimate: 800 – 1,000 GBP
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33. Autograph musical quotation signed and dated, ("Frederick Delius 1913 Grez sur Loing, July 3"), comprising two bars, notated in black ink on a hand-drawn stave, probably newly composed, 1 page, 8vo (c.15 x 11.5cms), signed on the verso by the composer's wife Jelka, and inscribed by her with a quotation of 2 lines of text from the "Songs of Sunset", Grez sur Loing, 4 July 1913.
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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34. Autograph letter signed ("Serge Diaghilev"), in French, to an unnamed friend, about Nijinsky
Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
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40. Four first editions of operas signed and inscribed by Britten to Peter Diamand, with others signed by Stravinsky and Henze
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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42. Typed letter signed ("Lenny"), with autograph postscript, to Peter Diamand,
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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43. Collection of ten autograph and typed signed ("Kathleen" , "Kath" or "Klever Kaff"), and two by her secretary Bernardine Hammond, when she was too ill to write,
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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44. Photograph signed and inscribed ("To Peter, in gratitude for all your kindnesses, Love Kathleen. Bruno Walter")
Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
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47. Collection autograph and typed letters signed by Dallapiccola, Stravinsky, Berio and Frank Martin, to Peter Diamand, including
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
51. Important collection of 87 autograph letters and 48 postcards, to Marguerite Hasselmans, the pianist and mistress of Fauré, and former mistress of Albéniz, signed with initials ("PD") or in full ("PaulDukas"),
Estimate: 10,000 – 12,000 GBP
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52. Late sixteenth-century manuscript voice parts for the unpublished madrigal "When yonger yeares could not my minds acquaint", a working manuscript with revisions
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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53. Autograph manuscript of an unfinished piano work in D major, comprising a single piano line for the right hand, apparently an accompaniment, written on five systems (each system laid out for three staves), unfinished by the composer; together with, on the verso, a two-bar sketch in piano reduction (with the brace laid out for four staves), unidentified, but probably for his opera Pénélope, 2 pages folio, 18-stave paper, c.1908-1909
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
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