Berlioz, Hector.

comprising four bars from the third movement "Scène aux champs" and nine bars from the fourth movement "Marche au supplice", notated in brown ink on three four-stave systems, autograph superscriptions ("Scène aux champs...Marche du Supplice") and instrumental designations, with a few heavy autograph deletions, 1 page, cut down from a larger leaf of music paper, the author identified in another hand on recto and verso, c.25.7 x 26.5cm, no place or date, [probably 1850s], light browning, some folds and a few tiny tears to margins

Formerly in the Northcott collection

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Autograph music by Berlioz is rarely offered for sale at auction. Berlioz's Grand traité d'Instrumentation was a ground-breaking work on orchestration, of which he was the consummate master.   Originally published in 1843, Berlioz included examples from his own works, including the "Scène aux champs" (1855 edition, p.124, example 28).