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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
24 May 2016 • London
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161 lots
  • Fine autograph manuscript of the Contredanse in C for Orchestra "La Bataille", K. 535, composed in 1788
    Estimate: 500,000 – 700,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Fine contemporary hand-coloured etching of Mozart and his family, after the celebrated watercolour by Carmontelle
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
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  • first edition of the masonic cantata for solo voice and piano 'Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt', K.619, contained in
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Un Quatuor Pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte [parts], Mainz: Schott, [1786]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Late eighteenth-century German manuscript of "Die Entführung aus dem Serail "("The Seraglio")
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • La Clemenza di Tito Opera seria...in due atti aggiustata per il Cembalo. Titus der Großmüthige, eine ernsthafte Oper in zwey Akten...Im Klavierauszuge von Siegfried Schmiedt [K.621] [vocal score], Leipzig: in der Breitkopfischen Musikhandlung, [1795]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Oeuvres complettes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leipzig: Au Magasin de Musique de Breitkopf & Härtel, [1798-1806], volumes 1-17
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Collection of autograph manuscripts, including of "Masked Ball for Two Pianos", Op. 36
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
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  • Autograph working manuscript of the Piano Trio in A major, signed and dated in many places ("Ildebrando Pizzetti")
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
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  • Photographic portrait signed and inscribed with an autograph musical quotation from "Madama Butterfly"
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Eight autograph letters signed ("G. Puccini"; "GiacomoPuccini"), his first known letters to his great friend and confidante in London, Sybil Seligman ("amabilissima Signora")
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Two autograph letters, one signed (“GPuccini”), to Sybil Seligman, about a performance of Madama Butterfly, conducted by Toscanini
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED