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Music, Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts And Continental Books
04 décembre 2018 • London
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318 lots
  • Four elaborately hand-coloured lithographs illustrating the original set designs for the first production of Bizet's "Carmen.", within the publisher's printed title-wrappers, Paris: Choudens, 1875:
    Estimation : 8 000 – 10 000 GBP
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  • Fine autograph manuscript of the song 'Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze!', op.71 no.1, for voice and piano, signed and inscribed ("Zum fröhlichen Ostermontag 1877. JBr ")
    Estimation : 50 000 – 70 000 GBP
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  • Exceptionally large photograph signed on the mount ("Zu freundlicher Erinnerung an Wien und an Johannes Brahms"), showing the great composer in early sixties
    Estimation : 8 000 – 12 000 GBP
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  • Photographic portrait signed and dated ("Johannes Brahms, 11 August 96")
    Estimation : 4 000 – 5 000 GBP
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  • Engraved visiting card inscribed by Brahms with an autograph note about Carl Goldmark, [1890-1891]
    Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP
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  • Important collection of autograph and corrected working manuscripts of the opera "Die Loreley" op.16, in Bruch’s original four-act version of 1863
    Estimation : 20 000 – 30 000 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation from the Violin Concerto no.1 op.26, and an autograph letter about Richard Strauss, both signed
    Estimation : 1 500 – 2 000 GBP
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  • Cabinet-style photograph signed ("Dr A Bruckner[paraph]"), [c.1890]
    Estimation : 4 000 – 5 000 GBP
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  • Fine large autograph caricature of Ruggero Leoncavallo, signed and inscribed ("Enrico Caruso 1907")
    Estimation : 800 – 1 200 GBP
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  • Autograph musical quotation from "Rodeo", signed and dated ("Aaron Copland 1981")
    Estimation : 600 – 800 GBP
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  • Autograph manuscript of the opening of his "Souvenir théâtral", Op. 247 based on Isouard's opera "Joconde", SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ("Souvenir theatral. Cah: 4. / Joconde CharlesCzerny...", for three players on two pianos
    Estimation : 2 000 – 3 000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED