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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts
07 December 2015 • London
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248 lots
  • Autograph album-leaf for Édouard Silas, boldly signed and inscribed ("H.Berlioz, Londres Mars 1852")
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph working manuscript of part of the 'Sanctus' from the "Mass", signed and inscribed by Bernstein in red ink ("Hosannas to Helen in the highest! love Lenny, Xmas '71")
    Estimate: 6,500 – 8,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph musical transcription of part of the viola part from "Éclat/Multiples", signed and inscribed ("PBoulez To Jan Hinkla with many thanks in remembrance of Eclat, L.A. Feb. 1975"), written out for the principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Indeterminate autograph musical quotation from "Variations" (either "Variations I" or "Variations II"), signed and inscribed (“for Roland Fischer, John Cage”)
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed "Elliott Carter for Horst Axtmann, New York, February 25, 1994"
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph musical quotation from "An Outdoor Overture" (1938), signed and inscribed ("Aaron Copland Aug. 1939")
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Long autograph musical quotation signed ("Peter Maxwell Davies") of the Sonata for trumpet in D and piano, together with autograph quotations signed by John Tavener, John Rutter and Gordon Jacob
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,200 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph working manuscript of part of the opera "La romanzesca e l'uomo nero" (1831)
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph sketchleaf for "Maria Padilla", the Act 3 duet for Maria and her father Don Ruiz 'Ite omai non vi conosco', including drafts of the music and the libretto:
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph musical quotation from Symphony no.7, in D minor, signed and inscribed "Thema v Simfonie D moll...Praha 18 17/5 85 Antonín Dvořák"
    Estimate: 7,000 – 9,000 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation from the song "Les Berceaux" op.23, no.1, with a five-line autograph inscription ("...a Lady Campbell Clarke, tres respectueux hommage de son bien reconnaissant GabrielFaure, Paris, 15 avril 1899"), an autograph letter, and a photograph of the composer laid down
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED