- Lot 200
Album of autograph music
Album containing autograph music by Verdi, Bellini, Liszt, Rossini, Donizetti and others, [1823]-1890
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 16,380Closed - Lot 201
Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) and Gabriel Astruc (1864-1938)
Contract signed by Serge Diaghilev and Gabriel Astruc, Paris, 21 June 1913
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,386Closed - Lot 202
[Circle of Beethoven and Mozart – Johann Andreas Streicher (1761-1833)]
Collection of letters by members of Beethoven and Mozart's circle addressed to the Viennese piano maker Andreas Streicher, 1801-1813 and n.d.
EstimateGBP 9,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 10,710Closed - Lot 203
[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)] – Thomas Attwood (1765-1838)
Autograph manuscript account by Attwood of his time spent with Mozart in Vienna in June 1785, n.d. [?1820s]
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 11,970Closed - Lot 204
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Autograph letter signed (‘H. Berlioz’) to [Amédée] Méreaux, Paris, 11 September [1855]
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 504Closed - Lot 205
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Autograph letter signed (‘Hector Berlioz’) to [Carolyne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein] (‘Princesse’), Paris, 20 February 1858
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 1,008Closed - Lot 206
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Autograph music manuscript signed (at end, 'Ernest Bloch') for an addition to his opera Macbeth, 1938
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 630Closed - Lot 207
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Autograph music manuscript signed of the Second String Quartet, Agate Beach, Oregon, 28 October 1945
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Closed - Lot 208
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
An important correspondence with Ernest Chapman, 1933-1958
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Closed - Lot 209
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Eight autograph letters and postcards signed (some with initials, one in jest as 'Hans Sachs', another as 'Ernest-Hans') to Sylvia Glass (later Goldfrank), New York, San Francisco, Roveredo (Switzerland) and elsewhere, 25 July 1933 - 26 August 1943
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 378Closed - Lot 210
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Autograph manuscript, a thematic catalogue of chamber and orchestral compositions, [c.1796-7]
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000Closed - Lot 211
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Autograph letter signed (‘Max Bruch’) to an unnamed recipient (‘Verehrte Frau’), Freiburg im Breisgau, 22 August 1872
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 504Closed - Lot 212
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Autograph letter signed (‘Max Bruch’) to [Kapellmeister Halir of Wiesbaden], Wrocław (‘Breslau’), 25 September 1888
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 630Closed - Lot 213
Hans von Bülow (1830-1894)
Series of 27 autograph letters signed ('H. v.Bülow') to Dr Carl Gille, Berlin, Munich and elsewhere, 18 November [1863] - 30 May 1869
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 214
John Cage (1912-1992)
Autograph music manuscript signed (on title, 'John Cage'), sixth player's part for First Construction (in Metal), Seattle, Washington, November 1939
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 8,190Closed - Lot 215
John Cage (1912-1992)
Autograph manuscripts comprising the complete draft of 'Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, 1970-71', fair copy of 'Mureau', and two related texts, [c.1970-71]
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 11,970Closed - Lot 216
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Autograph letter signed (‘L. Cherubini’) to [Jean-Baptiste-Roger Fauchon] D’Henneville, Montlignon, 26 September [1835]
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 504Closed - Lot 217
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Autograph letter signed ('Claude Debussy') to [Lorenzo Parodi], 80, avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 17 February 1910
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Closed - Lot 218
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Autograph music manuscript, sketches for 'Brigg Fair', 'Hassan' and the Sonata no.1 for violin and piano, [c.1905]
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 219
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Autograph letter and postcard signed (‘Frederick Delius’) to [Harry Waldo] Warner, Grez-sur-Loing, 23 December 1916 and n.d.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,890Closed - Lot 220
Arnold Dolmetsch (1848-1940)
Series of 31 autograph letters signed ('Arnold Dolmetsch') to Herbert Percy Horne, London, 19 June [1890] - 20 July 1899 and 8 May - 6 June 1914
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 221
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1853), Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) and others
Album containing autograph musical quotations and complete works by composers and performers of the early 19th century, including dedications and inscriptions
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000Closed - Lot 222
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Autograph letter signed ('Donizetti') to Giovanni Ricordi, [Rome], 1 August 1833
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 223
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Autograph music manuscript of Elgar's orchestration of Henry Purcell's motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes', dated at end 26 June 1929, with an annotated proof, first edition and autograph letter signed
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedGBP 23,940Closed - Lot 224
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Scribal music manuscript, signed by Falla and inscribed with an autograph quotation, of the ‘Danza ritual del Fuego’ from El amor brujo, [c.1939]
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 4,788Closed - Lot 225
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and others
Manuscript of c.80 Italian arias, [Italy], [c.1700-1707], with an autograph annotation by Handel
EstimateGBP 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedGBP 37,800Closed - Lot 226
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Dr. Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas for the Voice with an Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte. London: for the Author & Sold by him at No.1 Bury Street, St James's, [c.1794].
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,788Closed - Lot 227
Fanny Mendelssohn (later Hensel, 1805-1847)
Autograph letter (unsigned) to her mother Lea, incorporating a drawing and an autograph manuscript song, Rome, 15 March 1840
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 11,340Closed - Lot 228
Jenny Lind (1820-1887)
Nine autograph letters signed (‘Jenny’, ‘Jenny Lind’ and ‘Jenny Goldschmidt’) to Jacob-Axel Josephson, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Darnstadt, Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden, 1840-1863
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,772Closed - Lot 229
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Autograph music manuscript 'signed' of the symphonic poem Hungaria, arranged for two pianos, [c.1855-56]
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 23,940Closed - Lot 230
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Autograph letter signed (‘F. Liszt’) to an unnamed journal editor, n.p., n.d. [c.1833]
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,016Closed - Lot 231
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Autograph letter signed ('F. Liszt') to [Hector] Berlioz, Eiken, 20 August 1851
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Closed - Lot 232
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Autograph letter signed (‘F. Liszt’) to Eduard Liszt, Rome, 19 November 1862
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 2,142Closed - Lot 233
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Symphonische Dichtungen für grosses Orchester ... 'Les Préludes', Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, [1856], inscribed and signed ('F. Liszt')
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 234
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph music manuscript, a working manuscript for the song ‘Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder’, n.p. [Maiernigg, Austria], n.d. [June 1901]
EstimateGBP 100,000 - 150,000Price realisedGBP 107,100Closed - Lot 235
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph letter signed (‘Gustav Mahler’) to Emil [Freund], [Vienna, 1 November 1880]
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 16,380Closed - Lot 236
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph letter signed (‘Gustav’) to [Alma Schindler: ‘Liebste!’], n.p. [Vienna], n.d. [9 December 1901]
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 23,940Closed - Lot 237
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph letter signed (Gustav Mahler’) to [C.M.] Schröder (‘Sehr geehrter Herr!‘), [Vienna, 1 October 1907]
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,048Closed - Lot 238
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph letter signed (‘Gustav Mahler’) to [Guido Adler: ‘Lieber Freund‘], New York, 1 January 1910
EstimateGBP 9,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 10,710Closed - Lot 239
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph letter signed (‘Gust. Mahler’) to Emil [Freund], n.p. [probably New York], n.d. [early 1910]
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedGBP 6,930Closed - Lot 240
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Autograph letter signed (‘Gustav Mahler’) to Emil Freund (‘Lieber Emil!‘), [New York], [postmarked 21 November 1910]
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 10,710Closed - Lot 241
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
c.146 autograph letters and cards signed, 1864-1910 and n.d.
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Closed - Lot 242
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Autograph music manuscript signed ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') of the song, 'Tröstung', 4 Hobart Place, [London], 30 August 1846, and pencil drawing of Engelberg in the Canton of Obwalden
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000Closed - Lot 243
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Autograph letter signed (‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’) to his publisher Adolph Martin Schlesinger, n.p. [Berlin], 2 March 1830
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,890Closed - Lot 244
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Autograph letter signed ('W: A: Mozart') to [Martha Elisabeth] Baroness von Waldstätten, [Vienna, shortly before 4 August 1782]
EstimateGBP 150,000 - 200,000Price realisedGBP 226,800Closed - Lot 245
Vincent Novello (1781-1861)
Autograph letter signed ('V. Novello') to Thomas Attwood, Lincoln’s Inn, 29 October [1828]
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,386Closed - Lot 246
Vincent Novello (1781-1861)
Autograph letter signed (‘V. Novello’) to Thomas Attwood, 67 Frith Street, Soho Square, London, 24 December 1830
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,386Closed - Lot 247
Vincent Novello (1781-1861) and others
Two letterbooks of Edward Rimbault, London, 1840-1855, including series of letters by Novello, John Payne Collier and other musicians and antiquarians
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,048Closed - Lot 248
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Autograph letter signed (‘Nicolò Paganini’) to Lazzaro Rebizzo, Paris, 17 November 1837
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,410Closed - Lot 249
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Collection of autograph music manuscripts for piano (a few for organ), including marches, waltzes, a collection of dances and other works, one of them signed ('Giacomo Puccini'), n.d. [c.1875-1883]
EstimateGBP 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedGBP 13,860Closed - Lot 250
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Autograph letter signed (‘G. Puccini’) to Sybil [Seligman], Grand Hotel Quirinale, Rome, 31 January 1909
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,134Closed - Lot 251
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Autograph letter signed (‘tuo Giacomo’) to his wife Elvira [Puccini], New York, 12 December 1910
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,024Closed - Lot 252
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of all the Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices. London: J. Heptinstall for Henry Playford, 1698
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 1,512Closed - Lot 253
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Autograph music manuscript, the stichvorlage of the 'Etudes' for piano, Op. 23, nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, [c.1860]
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 2,520Closed - Lot 254
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Four autograph letters signed (‘C. Saint-Saëns’) to Franz Liszt (‘Maître’), Paris and Toulouse, 9 June 1881 – 18 April 1884 and n.d.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 15,120Closed - Lot 255
Andrés Segovia (1893-1987)
Autograph music manuscripts, a collection of transcriptions and works commissioned by Segovia for the guitar, n.d.
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 256
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Eleven autograph letters signed ('D. Shostakovich') to the conductor Samuil Abramovich Samosud, Leningrad and Gaspra (Crimea), 1939 - 1941
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 257
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915)
Autograph letter signed ('A. Scriabin') to Nikolai Gustavovich [von Struve], n.p., [before 12 January 1911]
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Closed - Lot 258
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Three autograph letters signed ('Dr Richard Strauss') to Lotte [Lehmann], Garmisch, 25 December 1924 - 15 November 1928
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 259
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Autograph letter signed ('G. Verdi') to Francesco Maria Piave, Sant'Agata, 17 August 1852
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Closed - Lot 260
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Autograph letter signed ('G. Verdi') to [Carlo] Baucardé, 4, rue Richer, Paris, 16 December 1853
EstimateGBP 3,500 - 4,500Closed - Lot 261
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Wagner's copy of Beethoven's Symphony No.3 ('Eroica') signed ('Richard Wagner') and inscribed, St Gall, 23 November 1856
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 25,200Closed - Lot 262
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to [Ferdinand] Heine, Meudon, 14 October 1841
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,032Closed - Lot 263
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to August Röckel, Zurich, 12 September 1852
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 10,080Closed - Lot 264
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to [August Röckel], Zurich, 23 August 1856
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,930Closed - Lot 265
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed (‘Rich. Wagner’) to [Heinrich] Szadrowsky, Zurich, 18 November 1856
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,512Closed - Lot 266
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed (with initials, 'R.W.') to [Heinrich Szadrowsky], [Zurich, c. November 1856]
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Closed - Lot 267
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed (with initials, 'R.W.') to [Heinrich Szadrowsky], n.p., n.d. [?Zurich, mid-1850s]
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 9,450Closed - Lot 268
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to [Eduard Liszt], Starnberg, 23 May 1864
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,788Closed - Lot 269
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Rich. Wagner') to an unidentified recipient, Munich, 25 May 1865
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 270
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to Dr [Theodor Kafka], Lucerne, 7 December 1871
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 271
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Autograph letter signed ('Richard Wagner') to [Maria Theresia Löw], Bayreuth, 26 May 1872
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,528Closed - Lot 272
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Autograph letter signed ('A. Webern') to [Hermann] Scherchen, Mödling, Austria, 14 June 1929
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,520Closed - Lot 273
French Composers & Artists
Autograph letters signed by Chavannes, Moreau, Delibes, and Félicien David, to various recipients, 1866-1887
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 504Closed - Lot 274
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and Jeremiah Bentham (1712-1792)
Autograph letters to the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 1778-1784
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Closed - Lot 275
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Autograph letter signed (‘Jeremy Bentham’) to [William Petty], Earl Shelburne [later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne] (‘My Lord’), Lincoln’s Inn, 19 July 1781
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Closed - Lot 276
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Autograph letter to [William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne] (‘My Lord’), Hendon, Middlesex, ‘Tuesday’ 24 August 1790
EstimateGBP 9,000 - 12,000Closed - Lot 277
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Autograph letter and two autograph manuscripts, 1791
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Closed - Lot 278
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Seven autograph letters to [William Petty, the Marquess of Lansdowne], Dover Street and Queen’s Square Place, 20 December 1791- 11 September 1792
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 279
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Three autograph letters to [William Petty, 1st] Marquess of Lansdowne, 1794-1796
EstimateGBP 6,000 - 9,000Closed - Lot 280
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Letter, document and pamphlet signed and inscribed to the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, 11 January 1828
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Closed - Lot 281
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Autograph letter signed (‘Jeremy Bentham’) to Sir Charles Bunbury (‘Dear Sir’), Hendon, Middlesex, 31 October 1793
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Closed - Lot 282
James Mill (1773-1836) and Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Two conjoined autograph letters signed, 7 September 1820
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,788Closed - Lot 283
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Series of approx. 106 autograph letters and one autograph postcard signed ('H. Bergson') to Herbert Wildon Carr, mostly Paris, 24 January 1909 - 1 August 1930
EstimateGBP 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedGBP 8,190Closed