Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von.

a composing manuscript, signed in three places ("E. N. v. Reznicek") and initialled in another, autograph title and dedication ("Orgel Fantasie...Walter Fischer, dem bedeutendsten lebenden Orgelmeister verehrt dieses Manuskript in Arener Dankbarkeit Berlin 5. 1. 1930"), notated in ink on up to four three-stave systems per page, with many corrections, erasures and revisions, a number of altered passages written on strips of manuscript paper and affixed to the score, with three pages of original music covered by whole-page revision pastedowns, the original ending dated "17.6.28", the revised ending dated "30.11.28", 23 pages, folio (33.5 x 25.5cm), later pencil annotations, twentieth-century quarter calf, horizontal and vertical folds to the manuscript, a number of edges restored and repaired; together with an edition of the Präludium und Chromatische Fuge in cis moll (2)

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Rare. Autograph manuscripts of the Austrian composer and conductor Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860-1945) are very rare at auction, not least because Reznicek's autographs were confiscated by the German authorities during the war and may of them were subsequently lost. The present manuscript, however, was presented by the composer in 1930 to the great organ virtuoso Walter Fischer.