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Musical Manuscripts
23 May 2017 • London
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53 lots
  • Five autograph letters to Sybil Seligman about La fanciulla del West, signed (“GPuccini”), two incomplete
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • Turandot, drama lirico, Deluxe edition of the vocal score, Milan: G. Ricordi, [16 April] 1926
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • The album of Henry Lowell Mason (1864-1957), containing a fine autograph musical quotation by Rachmaninov from the Second Piano Concerto, together with quotations by Kreisler, d'Indy, Loeffler, Weingartner and others, mainly Boston, 1903-1916, including
    Estimate: 5,000 – 6,000 GBP
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  • Pièces de clavessin avec une méthode pour la méchanique des doigts, où l'on enseigne les moyens de se procurer une parfait exécution sur cet instrument, Paris: Hochereau, Bouvin & the author, [1724]
    Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 GBP
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  • Autograph full score of the Symphony no. 6, op. 111, signed on the title-page ("Ant. Rubinstein")
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
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  • Three autograph letters signed, one with a self-caricature, together with an autograph musical quotation from the Third Violin Concerto and Liszt's "Hexameron"
    Estimate: 1,000 – 1,200 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation from the Trois romances Op.11 no.1 in E-flat minor, inscribed and signed ("An ein freundliches Erinnern bittet Clara Wieck.")
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Autograph manuscript of the early love song "Rothe Rosen", written and dedicated to his girlfriend Lotti Speyer
    Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
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  • Autograph sketchleaf for "Der Bürger als Edelmann", Op.60 (III) and "Schlagobers", Op.70, signed ("DrRichardStrauss")
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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  • Der Rosenkavalier Komödie für Musik von Hugo v Hofmannsthal. Musik von Richard Strauss. Skizzen für die Kostüme und Dekorationen von Alfred Roller, Berlin: Adolph Fürstner, 1910; together with: Der Rosenkavalier...Regieskizze, Fürstner, 1910
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Large colour-lithographed poster for "Richard Strauss-Woche, München 1910, 23-28 Juni"
    Estimate: 400 – 600 GBP
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  • Five portraits of Strauss by Rudolf Kratina (showing him conducting), and by Max Liebermann, Ferdinand Schmutzer and Wilhelm Damian
    Estimate: 800 – 1,200 GBP
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