Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts

194. Wagner, Richard

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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195. Walton, Sir William

Autograph musical quotation from "Belshazzar's Feast", signed ("William Walton")

Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP

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196. Weill, Kurt

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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197. Bach, Johann Sebastian

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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198. Beethoven, Ludwig van

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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199. Beethoven, Ludwig van

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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200. Beethoven, Ludwig van

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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201. Bellini, Vincenzo

Autograph letter signed (“V. Bellini”), to an unidentified recipient in Turin, [about "I puritani"]

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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202. Bernstein, Leonard

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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203. Bononcini, Giovanni Maria

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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204. Caruso, Enrico

Large self caricature signed and inscribed ("Enrico Caruso 1918")

Estimate: 800 – 1,000 GBP

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205. Dvořák, Antonín

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

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