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Auction archive: Lot number 3

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Music
15 May 2008
Estimate
£12,000 - £15,000
ca. US$23,569 - US$29,461
Price realised:
£24,500
ca. US$48,120
Auction archive: Lot number 3

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Music
15 May 2008
Estimate
£12,000 - £15,000
ca. US$23,569 - US$29,461
Price realised:
£24,500
ca. US$48,120
Beschreibung:

Bach, Johann Sebastian. MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF SIXTEEN CHORALE PRELUDES FROM THE ORGELBÜCHLEIN, BWV 599-644 a hitherto unknown contemporary source, almost certainly in the hand of Johann Christian Kleingünther, with manuscript title and ownership inscription to first page ("Vermischte Musicalische Choral. Gedanken di Johann Sebastian Bach Possessor Johann Christian Kleingünther. Anno 1747"), the music written in brown ink on up to four two-stave systems per page, the chorale preludes numbered 1-16, with some manual and pedal indications; and containing on the final page a complete 15-bar Menuet 24 pages, including title, small oblong 4to (15.7 x 19.6cm), contemporary pencil annotation to minuet on final page ("Nicht abzuschreiben"), original coloured wrappers, no place, 1747, light browning, staining to edges, wrappers worn, small tear with slight loss of text to leaf 5

Auction archive: Lot number 3
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Bach, Johann Sebastian. MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF SIXTEEN CHORALE PRELUDES FROM THE ORGELBÜCHLEIN, BWV 599-644 a hitherto unknown contemporary source, almost certainly in the hand of Johann Christian Kleingünther, with manuscript title and ownership inscription to first page ("Vermischte Musicalische Choral. Gedanken di Johann Sebastian Bach Possessor Johann Christian Kleingünther. Anno 1747"), the music written in brown ink on up to four two-stave systems per page, the chorale preludes numbered 1-16, with some manual and pedal indications; and containing on the final page a complete 15-bar Menuet 24 pages, including title, small oblong 4to (15.7 x 19.6cm), contemporary pencil annotation to minuet on final page ("Nicht abzuschreiben"), original coloured wrappers, no place, 1747, light browning, staining to edges, wrappers worn, small tear with slight loss of text to leaf 5

Auction archive: Lot number 3
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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