Musical Manuscripts

46. Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit

Autograph manuscript of the song "Sur les bords écumants des fleuves qui roulent des flots", for voice and piano

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

47. Bach, Johann Sebastian

the corrected proof of the eight engraved choral parts for the "St Matthew Passion" BWV 244, [Berlin: Schlesinger, c.1831]

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

12,500 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

48. Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de

Twelve first and early editions of music for flute and chamber ensemble, Paris: L'Auteur, Boivin, 1724-1727

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

49. Brahms, Johannes

Unpublished autograph letter about "Schicksalslied" ["Song of Destiny"], signed ("J Brahms"), including two musical quotations from the work, [1871]

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

8,125 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

50. Brahms, Johannes

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 ")

Estimate: 60,000 – 80,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

51. Bruch, Max

Important collection of autograph and corrected working manuscripts of the opera "Die Loreley" op.16, in Bruch’s original four-act version of 1863

Estimate: 30,000 – 40,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

53. Corelli, Arcangelo

Fine and important letter to Count Fabrizio Laderchi about his first known work, written in an elegant contemporary scribal hand, 3 June 1679

Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

54. Corelli, Arcangelo

Letter to the composer Giacomo Perti in Bologna, written in a contemporary secretarial hand, 21 October 1711

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

55. Debussy, Claude

Autograph letter signed (“Claude Debussy”), to the conductor and composer André Caplet, about Edgar Allan Poe and the unfinished opera "Le diable dans le beffroi"

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

Lot Sold:

5,250 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED