Lot 10
  • 10

Bernstein, Leonard

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Autograph manuscript of part of Symphony no.2, signed and inscribed by the composer ("Discarded pages from 'The Age of Anxiety' Leonard Bernstein 1949")
  • ink on paper
the full orchestral score, with music for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, celesta, harp, timpani and strings, written in black ink on one side only on two systems of varying length, with characteristic markings ("with purity"), and the composer's presentation inscription in blue crayon at the head of the first leaf, 23 bars in all

2 pages on separate leaves, large folio (c.51 x 33.2cm), transparent 30-stave manuscript paper by the Circle Blue Print Co., Inc., [1948-1949], light browning, creasing along horizontal folds

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Bernstein's "The Age of Anxiety" (Second Symphony), for piano and orchestra, was written in 1949 and based on the poem by W.H. Auden.