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Manuscripts From A Distinguished Private Collection Part 1, Music
26 October 2017 • London
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162 lots
  • 146. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Autograph letter signed, to the organist and maestro di cappella at Como, Marco Enrico Bossi, 24 January 1889
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 147. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Autograph letter signed, to the organist and composer Marco Enrico Bossi, maestro di cappella in Como, about "modernity" in music, 3 April 1889
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • 148. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Large photograph signed and dedicated to the singer Marie Delma
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
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  • 149. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Autograph letter signed, to Giuseppe Spatz and his new wife ("Conjugi Ssri Spatz"), 24 May 1896
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • 150. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Autograph letter signed, to Giuseppe Spatz, 7 September 1897
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • 151. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Cabinet-style photograph signed and inscribed ("Montecatini...Agosto 98 GVerdi"), showing the elderly composer wearing a felt hat
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • 152. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Autograph letter signed, to the jurist and education minister, Emanuele Gianturco, [about Domenico Cimarosa], 14 July 1899
    Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 153. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Autograph letter signed, to an unidentified agent or tenant on his estate, 29 April 1900
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • 154. Wagner, Richard
    Fine autograph letter signed ("RichardWagner"), to the Viennese Kapellmeister Heinrich Esser, concerning the preparations for the projected Vienna performance of Tristan und Isolde, WITH 8 BARS OF MUSIC IN WAGNER'S HAND, 15 June 1861
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
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  • 155. Wagner, Richard
    Autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to the poet Karl Isidor Beck, 22 November 1868
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 156. Wagner, Richard
    Remarkable autograph letter signed ("Richard Wagner"), to Josef Kölbl, CONCERNING HIS WELTANSCHAUUNG, 12 May 1869
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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  • 157. Printed announcement of marriage of Wagner and Cosima at Lucerne on 25 August [1870], addressed in Wagner's hand to Arrigo Boito
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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