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Fine Autograph Letters And Manuscripts From A Distinguished Private Collection: Part II | Music, Americana, English And Continental Literature
13 December 2018 • New York
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Sale Number: N09920
152 lots
212. Autograph receipt signed (“Robert Schumann”)
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
213. Autograph manuscript of “Spagnuolo” for piano, boldly signed “Jean Sibelius”
Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
214. Autograph musical quotation from the March “The Bride Elect”, comprising two measures in D major, 6/8 time, signed and dated: “John Philip Sousa ‘98”
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
215. Collection of autograph manuscripts
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
216. Fourteen largely unpublished autograph letters signed to Alessandro Lanari, the “Napoleon of Impresarios”
Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
217. Fine autograph letter to Francesco Florimo, about Don Carlos
Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
218. Autograph letter signed (“Giuseppina Verdi”), to Signora Virginia
Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
219. Three autograph letters signed to General Corvetto
Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
220. Autograph letter signed (“G.Verdi”) to M. Peragallo, written in French
Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
221. Fine sepia cabinet photograph of the dark-haired composer, with greying beard, a head and shoulders portrait, three-quarter face, wearing a suit and bow-tie, signed on the mount in brown ink “G Verdi”
Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
222. Fine photograph of the composer, showing him three-quarter face in suit and bow-tie, signed and inscribed by him on the mount “Prof Antonio Zamperoni/vecchia guardia GVerdi Milano 9 Feb: 1893”
Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
223. Fine Album containing autograph musical quotations and entries by Verdi (from Falstaff (1893), Puccini (from Manon Lescaut), Richard Strauss (the trio from Der Rosenkavalier), Emile Zola (“Souvenir de mon passage à Milan, 14 décembre 1894”), Mascagni (“O Lola” from Cavalleria rusticana), Saint-Saëns (from Henry VIII), an eight-line poetical fragment by D’Annunzio (“O danze, aria di tempi assai lontani…”), Massenet (from La Navarraise), Giordano (from Andrea Chénier), Paderewski (Op.19), Ada Negri, Franchetti, Giocosa, Mengelberg, Chaliapin and others
Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 USD
BIDDING IS CLOSED
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