- 87
Milhaud, Darius.
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Log in to view results
bidding is closed
Description
- Autograph draft for the orchestral work Meutre d'un grand chef d'état
a working manuscript, apparently for the complete work, written in ink on two or three-stave systems, with autograph title ("1er manuscrit Murder of a great Chief of State Meutre d'un grand chef d'état...") and autograph tempo marking, dated on the title and at the end ("Paris 24 Nov 1963"), containing a few cancellations, 44 bars in all, 2 pages, plus title, folio (33 x 27.5cm), 20-stave paper, Paris, 24 November 1963; together with: three autograph leaves containing prefatory material (title, synopsis of text and music, and a quotation from the Book Of Isaiah, Chapter II, verse 4) intended for an edition of Pacem in Terris, Op.404, signed and initialled by the composer ("Darius Milhaud"; "D. M."); a facsimile of Milhaud's autograph score of the work and two souvenir concert programmes featuring it (7)
Catalogue Note
Deeply affected by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963, Milhaud set to work on an orchestral work in memory of the murdered leader, completing it remarkably quickly by 25 November.