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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
24 May 2016 • London
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161 lots
  • 86. [Bach, Johann Sebastian]--Adolf Bernhard Marx
    The original contract for the first edition of the vocal score of the St Matthew Passion, signed by the editor, Adolf Bernhard Marx and the publisher Adolf Martin Schlesinger,
    Estimate: 5,000 – 8,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 87. Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Grosse Passionsmusik nach dem Evangelium Matthaei [St Matthew Passion], vollständiger Klavierauszug von Adolph Bernhard Marx, Berlin, Schlesinger, [c.1830]
    Estimate: 800 – 1,000 GBP
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  • 88. 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: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
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  • 89. Berg, Alban
    Printed score of the Piano Sonata Op. 1, WITH AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS BY BERG, apparently for the third revised edition of 1925,
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
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  • 90. Debussy, Claude
    Autograph manuscript of the mélodie 'Mandoline', signed on the title page and at the end ("Vienne 25 Novembre Ach. Debussy")
    Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 GBP
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  • 91. Elgar, Sir Edward
    Important manuscript containing five autograph composition drafts for the Enigma Variations, op.36
    Estimate: 60,000 – 80,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 92. Elgar, Sir Edward
    Dora Penny's own extra-illustrated copy of her memoir of Elgar, with an autograph note by Elgar and additional illustrations of the friends depicted in the Enigma Variations, being:
    Estimate: 600 – 800 GBP
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  • 93. Anonymous eighteenth-century English manuscript treatise on music theory, from the library of James Kent (1700-1776)
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 94. Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
    Ninety autograph colour stage designs for Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier", the celebrated Glyndebourne production in 1980, most signed ("Erté") and annotated
    Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 95. Franck, César
    The autograph manuscript of the symphonic poem "Les Eolides", signed and dated ("César Franck, Paris, 7 June 1876") on the last page
    Estimate: 60,000 – 80,000 GBP
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  • 96. Franck, César
    Autograph orchestral performing parts of the oratorio "Ruth" (1845), containing passages revised by the composer in c.1860
    Estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 97. Collection of autograph letters and quotations, signed by Humperdinck, Lehar, Joachim and Oscar Straus 
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED