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Musical Manuscripts
28 November 2017 • London
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75 lots
  • 62. Rossini, Gioachino
    Autograph letter signed ("Rossini"), to Donizetti ("Dilettissimo amico"), 14 March 1843
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • 63. Sanquirico, Alessandro
    Scene eseguite pel Melodramma serio L'ultimo giorno di Pompei [...]; Raccolta di Varie Decorazioni Sceniche inventate, e dipinte dal pittore Alessandro Sanquirico per l'I.R. Teatro della Scala in Milano, [Milan, c.1827]
    Estimate: 30,000 – 40,000 GBP
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  • 64. Schoenberg, Arnold
    Album containing three autograph musical quotations on one page, from the pieces played at the Skandalkonzert at the Vienna Musikverein on 31 March 1913
    Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 GBP
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  • 65. Collection of autograph letters signed
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
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  • 66. Shostakovich, Dmitri
    Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo Uyezda, Opera v 4-kh deystviyakh, 9-ti kartinakh, op.29 Klaviraustsug [Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Opera in 4 acts, 9 scenes...vocal score], [Moscow:] Nemirovich-Danchenko National Music Theatre, 1933
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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  • 67. Strauss, Richard
    Autograph sketches for the ballet Josephslegende, Op.63, and the incidental music "Der Bürger als Edelmann", Op.60, the original conception for "Ariadne auf Naxos"
    Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP
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  • 68. Strauss, Richard
    Autograph musical quotation of the theme of the closing chorus from Friedenstag, signed ("Richard Strauss")
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 69. Strauss, Richard
    Fine autograph manuscript of part of the Waltz-sequence 'Einleitung und Walzer aus "Der Rosenkavalier"', op.59, for full orchestra
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 GBP
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  • 70. Thalberg, Sigismond
    Autograph manuscript of "Fantaisie sur Lucrezia Borgia" op.50, signed and dated by the composer at the end ("Juin 1843, S. Thalberg"), together with a collection of album leaves.
    Estimate: 1,200 – 1,500 GBP
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  • 71. Verdi, Giuseppe
    Don Carlos Grand Opéra en cinq actes [vocal score], Paris: Léon Escudier, 1867; FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER TO THE CREATOR OF THE ROLE OF PHILIP II
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • 72. Wagner, Richard
    Autograph programme note for the overture to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
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  • 73. Wagner, Richard
    Unpublished autograph letter signed, ("RW"), [to the pianist Karl Tausig] ("Lieber Karl"), [October 1861]
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED