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Music And Continental Books And Manuscripts
07 December 2015 • London
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248 lots
  • Remarkable large cabinet-style photograph signed and inscribed to "the incomparable" Francesco Tamagno, the creator of the role of Otello, on the occasion of the première
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
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  • Don Carlos Grand Opéra en cinq actes [vocal score], Paris: Léon Escudier, 1867; FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER TO THE CREATOR OF THE ROLE OF PHILIP II
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Important manuscript full score of "Aida", made for the early performances at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris [1875-1876]
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Aida, Grand Opéra en Quatre Actes, Paroles Françaises de MM. du Locle & Nuitter [vocal score], Paris: Léon Escudier, [1880]
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Fine autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to Carl Reissiger, Wagner's fellow conductor at the Dresden Opera House
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
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  • Der fliegende Holländer, Romantische Oper in 3 Aufzügen, Dresden: C.F. Meser (Hermann Müller), [before 1860]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Siegfried...Vollständiger Klavierauszug von Karl Klindworth, Mainz: bei B. Schott's Söhnen, [1871]
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Delli dialogi della quantita et del numero delle sfere terrestri et celesti... Il primo della Terra [all published]. Rome: Santi, 1588
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
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