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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
20 novembre 2014 • London
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207 lots
  • Der Rosenkavalier Komödie für Musik von Hugo v Hofmannsthal. Musik von Richard Strauss. Skizzen für die Kostüme und Dekorationen von Alfred Roller, Berlin: Adolph Fürstner, 1910; together with: Der Rosenkavalier...Regieskizze, Fürstner, 1910
    Estimation : 6 000 – 8 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph working manuscript of 'Frühling', the first of the Vier letzte Lieder, [Four Last Songs], signed and inscribed over the music: "Frühling (Hermann Hesse) Richard Strauss"
    Estimation : 150 000 – 200 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph manuscript of part of "Ariadne auf Naxos", signed and inscribed ("Najade, Dryade, Echo...Ariadne DRichard Strauss")
    Estimation : 10 000 – 15 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • THE AUTOGRAPH WILL OF RICHARD STRAUSS, a copy of the "Testament" and "Nachtrag zu meninem Testament [codicil to my will]", both boldly signed by the composer ("DrRichardStrauss")
    Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph sketch leaf for the Second Horn Concerto in E flat major, signed in ink
    Estimation : 6 000 – 8 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Elektra, tragödie, Berlin: Aldoph Fürstner, [1909], first edition, signed by Strauss ("DRichard Strauss") and by the singers during the first London production in March 1910
    Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine autograph letter signed ("DRichardStrauss"), about music under the Nazis
    Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph working manuscript signed ("Richard Strauss") of the Erste Walzerfolge aus Der Rosenkavalier, a concert suite of waltzes from Strauss's most famous opera,
    Estimation : 100 000 – 150 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine large photograph, signed and inscribed on the mount ("DRichardStrauss, Amsterdam, 25.1.24")
    Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • -- Otto Wiedemann, Fine large silhouette portrait of Strauss by Wiedemann, signed by both the artist and composer ("Richard Strauss 11.6.29")
    Estimation : 1 000 – 1 500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph musical quotation from Der Rosenkavalier signed ("DRichard Strauss, 20.10.47")
    Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Calligraphic autograph manuscript of "Shchuka" ["The Pike"]. from Four Russian Peasant Songs, for unaccompanied women's voices, in a coloured folder made and decorated by the composer, dedicated to the artist Ruzena Zátková, ("[to] Ruzhena Vlastimilovna Khvoshchinskaya / Igor Stravinsky A.D. 1914-1915"), in Russian
    Estimation : 20 000 – 30 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED