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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts
07 Dezember 2015 • London
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248 lots
  • Fine early autograph musical quotation from "Rienzi", signed and inscribed (“Dresden, 25 August 1844. RichardWagner”), written in gothic script
    Estimate: 7.000 – 10.000 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation from "Belshazzar's Feast", signed ("William Walton")
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation of the melody 'Mack the Knife', from "The Threepenny Opera", signed and inscribed ("For Mr Heinz Guvan with my best wishes Feb 1944 Kurt Weill")
    Estimate: 4.000 – 5.000 GBP
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  • Grosse Passionsmusik nach dem Evangelium Matthaei [vocal score of the St Matthew Passion], Berlin, Schlesinger, [c.1830]
    Estimate: 1.500 – 2.000 GBP
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  • Sinfonia Eroica...composta per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grand Uomo...Op. 55 No III delle Sinfonie, Vienna: "Contor delle arti e d'Industria", [c.1807-1808]
    Estimate: 8.000 – 10.000 GBP
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  • Grande Sonate pour le Pianoforte composée et dédiée a Monsieur le Comte de Waldstein...Op. 53, Vienna: Bureau des arts et d'industrie, [c.1806-1810], bound with piano works by Dussek, Pollini and Vanhal
    Estimate: 2.000 – 2.500 GBP
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  • Einladung zu Ludwig van Beethovens Leichenbegängniss, welches am 29. März um 3 Uhr Nachmittags Statt finden wird, Vienna: Anton Strauss, for Tobias Haslinger, 1827
    Estimate: 2.000 – 3.000 GBP
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  • Autograph letter signed (“V. Bellini”), to an unidentified recipient in Turin, [about "I puritani"]
    Estimate: 1.500 – 2.000 GBP
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  • Contemporary vocal scores of "Songfest", for six solo voices and orchestra, corrected and revised by the composer throughout
    Estimate: 8.000 – 12.000 GBP
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  • Musico prattico che brevemente dimostra...la composizione de i canti, e di ciò ch' all' arte del contrapunto si ricerca, opera ottava...del concerto degli strumenti, Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1673
    Estimate: 1.500 – 2.000 GBP
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  • Large self caricature signed and inscribed ("Enrico Caruso 1918")
    Estimate: 800 – 1.000 GBP
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  • Autograph working draft of part of the Piano Trio Op.90 ("Dumky"), signed and inscribed ("To his dear friend Mr Pollner [?], as a keepsake from Ant. Dvořák 18 26/11 90"), and annotated by him ("...Prvni skizza Dumek" ["...first sketch of the Dumky": translation]),
    Estimate: 60.000 – 80.000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED