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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts
07 December 2015 • London
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248 lots
  • Archive of some fifty unpublished autograph musical manuscripts, comprising orchestral works and music for film, stage, piano, songs etc., many signed ("George H. Clutsam")
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Cabinet-style photograph signed ("Edward Elgar") on the image, and inscribed on verso to his doctor Charles East
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
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  • Ninety autograph colour stage designs for Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier", the celebrated Glyndebourne production in 1980, most signed ("Erté") and annotated
    Estimate: 50,000 – 70,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Two autograph musical quotations signed and inscribed, one on a fine photograph of the composer, comprising
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine autograph manuscript of two unpublished waltzes for piano, each signed ("f.de flotow"), in an album
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
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  • Autograph orchestral performing parts of the oratorio "Ruth" (1845), containing passages revised by the composer in c.1860
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine autograph manuscript of six numbers from the opera "Sapho", for the revision in four acts (1884)
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Mottetti ad una et piu Voci con Sinfonia dedicata A.S.A.R. Il Signor Duca d'Orleans, da Gio: Antonio Guido genovese, Opera prima, Paris: Foucault, 1707
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Samson. An Oratorio, London: J Walsh, [1743]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Nineteenth-century bronze statue of Handel, by Elkington & Co. after L.F. Roubiliac's marble for Vauxhall Gardens
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Ariana a Naxos, Cantata a Voce Sola, Accompagnata col Clavicembalo o Forte-Piano, [Hob. XXVIb:2], London: for the Author & Sold by him at No.18 Great Pulteney Street. & at J.Blands Music Warehouse 45 Holborn, [1791]
    Estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph manuscript of the final chorus of the Esterházy Cantata "Qual dubbio ormai" [Hob.XXIVa:4]
    Estimate: 150,000 – 200,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED