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Lot 240
  • 240

Orff, Carl

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4,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Orff, Carl
  • Autograph sketches for "Catulli Carmina" signed ("Carl Orff")
  • paper and ink
a working draft with the title "Catulli Carmina Pars I", notated in blue-black ink and pencil on up to twenty-five staves per page, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass voices, including sketches for five distinct sections numbered by the composer, including some preliminary pencil drafts on the last page

8 pages, large folio (c.39 x 28.5cms), 30-stave paper, modern green morocco folder gilt, no place or date [1943]

Catalogue Note

After Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina is perhaps Orff's most famous work. It was premiered in Leipzig in 1943.