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Auction archive: Lot number 49

Brahms, Johannes

Musical Manuscripts
22 May 2018
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,375 - US$8,063
Price realised:
£8,125
ca. US$10,919
Auction archive: Lot number 49

Brahms, Johannes

Musical Manuscripts
22 May 2018
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,375 - US$8,063
Price realised:
£8,125
ca. US$10,919
Beschreibung:

Brahms, Johannes UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER ABOUT "SCHICKSALSLIED" ["SONG OF DESTINY"], SIGNED ("J BRAHMS"), INCLUDING TWO MUSICAL QUOTATIONS FROM THE WORK, [1871] [to the conductor Hermann Levi], asking him to make the string parts at the words "ins Ungewiße" (indicated by three bars notated as figured bass) conform to the manuscript score now in Leipzig, writing out the revised timpani part in the final tutti (five bars at Letter "N"), suggesting that they wait until after the concert before dealing with the minor alterations for the chorus, and enquiring if all was well with the score of the Triumphlied op.55 ("... bitte ich dich einen Zettel beizulegen für den Leipziger Stecher oder Correktor, dass an dieser Stelle für Viol 1 u. 2 u. Viola die Partitur maaßgebend sei (d.h. Die Partitur in Leipzig)...") 1 page, oblong 8vo ( c. 14 x 21cm), early annotation naming the recipient on verso (partly obscured by the mount), framed and glazed with a printed portrait of the composer (overall size: c. 46.5 35.5cm), no place or date [Vienna, before 18 October 1871]

Auction archive: Lot number 49
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Brahms, Johannes UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER ABOUT "SCHICKSALSLIED" ["SONG OF DESTINY"], SIGNED ("J BRAHMS"), INCLUDING TWO MUSICAL QUOTATIONS FROM THE WORK, [1871] [to the conductor Hermann Levi], asking him to make the string parts at the words "ins Ungewiße" (indicated by three bars notated as figured bass) conform to the manuscript score now in Leipzig, writing out the revised timpani part in the final tutti (five bars at Letter "N"), suggesting that they wait until after the concert before dealing with the minor alterations for the chorus, and enquiring if all was well with the score of the Triumphlied op.55 ("... bitte ich dich einen Zettel beizulegen für den Leipziger Stecher oder Correktor, dass an dieser Stelle für Viol 1 u. 2 u. Viola die Partitur maaßgebend sei (d.h. Die Partitur in Leipzig)...") 1 page, oblong 8vo ( c. 14 x 21cm), early annotation naming the recipient on verso (partly obscured by the mount), framed and glazed with a printed portrait of the composer (overall size: c. 46.5 35.5cm), no place or date [Vienna, before 18 October 1871]

Auction archive: Lot number 49
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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