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Manuscripts From A Distinguished Private Collection Part 1, Music
26 October 2017 • London
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162 lots
  • Fine large cabinet-style photograph signed and inscribed with a musical quotation from I medici, 1895
    Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Collection of letters and photographs signed by Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Riccardo Zandonai
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Two autograph musical quotations from Zazà, and an autograph letter signed, to Jules Massenet, 19 May 1897
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Cabinet-style photograph signed and inscribed by the composer, with an autograph musical quotation from his opera La Bohème, 1897
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Photograph signed and inscribed on the image ("R. Leoncavallo Wien 2 Mars 1898")
    Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Six autograph letters about his operettas, with an autograph love poem signed ("R. Leoncavallo" and "Leoncavallo"), 1914-1916
    Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("FLiszt"), in German, to the conductor Johann Herbeck, concerning his Prometheus, 26 January 1860
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("F.Liszt"), to the German philologist Julius Altmann, 10 November 1870
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Autograph letter signed ("FLiszt"), in German, apparently to the publisher C.F. Kahnt, about the cantata Zur Säkularfeier Beethovens, 17 June 1870
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("F.Liszt"), showing the composer wearing medals and decorations
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Visiting card inscribed and signed on the reverse ("FL."), to an unidentified "Cher ami"
    Estimate: 800 – 1,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • Cabinet-style photograph, signed below the image ("F. Liszt")
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED