Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts - L09775

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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts

08 December 2009 • London

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Sale Number: L09775

54. Four autograph letters signed by Fauré, Meyerbeer, Boito and Offenbach, including autograph letter signed ("GabrielFauré") to Madame de Saint-Marceaux, declining her invitation, 1 page, 8vo, "Jeudi soir"; and by Meyerbeer (an invitation to a soirée); Offenbach (to Chadeuil, arranging a meeting) and Arrigo Boito (to a composer, telling him that it will be difficult to stage his opera at La Scala, 2 pages, 8vo, (c.1902), 4 items, all in French

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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55. Autograph letter signed ("GabrielFauré"), together with letters By Adolphe Adam and others, about improvements to the organ at the Madeleine, comparing it with those modern instruments "à Notre Dame, à St Sulpice et à la Trinité", 4 pages, 8vo, Schloss Fantaisie, Bayreuth, no date; together with letters by Adam (about the ballet La filleule des fées, at the Opéra in Paris, 3 pages, 16mo, Paris 13 October 1849), by Boieldieu (to St Georges) and Baillot (to Cherubini, 3 pages, 4to, Paris, 25 December 1808)

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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57. Eighteenth-century manuscript of airs for operas and ballets by Lully, Rameau, Campra, Destouches and others

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

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58. A collection of autograph letters signed by Offenbach (about a pantomime), Honegger (autograph postcard and inscribed programme), Poulenc (inscribed score of Ire Bagatelle for violin and piano), Florent Schmitt, Isouard ("Nicolo" 1807), Félicien David, Iturbi, Pedrell (3 letters about vihuelas and musicological matters), and a restaurant card signed by Honegger, Roussel, Auric, Koechlin and others,

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

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59. Collection of manuscripts by Ambroise Thomas, Gounod, Adolphe and Offenbach

Estimate: 1,500 – 1,800 GBP

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60. Fine etching of Furtwängler by Emil Orlik, an artist's proof signed and inscribed by Orlik

Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP

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61. Autograph letter signed ("Gluck [paraph]"), in French, to the French writer Charles Palissot de Montenoy,

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP

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62. Two autograph musical quotations, by Grieg from the Ballade for piano, and by Prokofiev from the "Classical" Symphony

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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63. Directorium chori ad usum sacrosanctae Basilice Vaticanae, Rome: Robert Grandjon, 1582

Estimate: 3,000 – 3,500 GBP

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64. Messiah an Oratorio in Score as it was originally performed...to which are added his additional alterations, [full score], first edition, Randall & Abell, [1767]

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP

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66. Contemporary manuscript of the "Andante and Variations in F minor" [Hob XVII /6],, reviewed and signed by Haydn on the title page, ("by Haydn[paraph]ia"), here entitled "Sonata" (as in the autograph manuscript)

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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67. Fine autograph letter signed ("Joseph Haydn [paraph]"), in German, to August Eberhard Müller, about The Seasons

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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