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Auction archive: Lot number 17

CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810-1849) Autograph music manuscript of t...

Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$168,419 - US$252,628
Price realised:
£182,500
ca. US$307,365
Auction archive: Lot number 17

CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810-1849) Autograph music manuscript of t...

Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$168,419 - US$252,628
Price realised:
£182,500
ca. US$307,365
Beschreibung:

CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810-1849). Autograph music manuscript of two short works for piano, an ‘All[egre]tto’ of 24 bars, in contrasting A major and A minor sections, and a ‘Mazur[ka]' of 14 bars in D minor, signed (‘Ch’) twice at the end of each piece, n.p., n.d., meticulously notated in 38 bars on five systems of two staves on one page, 228 x 287mm , annotated in a 19th-century hand 'copié par Chopin', mounted on card with cut signatures of Arthur Rubinstein (1931) and Vladimir Horowitz (1978), in a portfolio, red morocco. Literature: Krystyna Kobylanska. Frédéric Chopin: Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (1979), VII b (Transkriptionen von Volksweisen ) , nos 7 and 8; J.M. Chominski & T.D. Turlo. Katalog dziel Fryderyka Chopina (1990), p.240 (Sketches, fragments, exercises), 'Folk melodies meticulously recorded on a single sheet'. Provenance : Sacha Guitry collection – his sale, Drouot, Paris, 21 November 1974 – private collection.
CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810-1849). Autograph music manuscript of two short works for piano, an ‘All[egre]tto’ of 24 bars, in contrasting A major and A minor sections, and a ‘Mazur[ka]' of 14 bars in D minor, signed (‘Ch’) twice at the end of each piece, n.p., n.d., meticulously notated in 38 bars on five systems of two staves on one page, 228 x 287mm , annotated in a 19th-century hand 'copié par Chopin', mounted on card with cut signatures of Arthur Rubinstein (1931) and Vladimir Horowitz (1978), in a portfolio, red morocco. Literature: Krystyna Kobylanska. Frédéric Chopin: Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (1979), VII b (Transkriptionen von Volksweisen ) , nos 7 and 8; J.M. Chominski & T.D. Turlo. Katalog dziel Fryderyka Chopina (1990), p.240 (Sketches, fragments, exercises), 'Folk melodies meticulously recorded on a single sheet'. Provenance : Sacha Guitry collection – his sale, Drouot, Paris, 21 November 1974 – private collection. TWO SHORT PIANO WORKS INSPIRED BY POLISH FOLK MUSIC.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
21 May 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
21 May 2014, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810-1849). Autograph music manuscript of two short works for piano, an ‘All[egre]tto’ of 24 bars, in contrasting A major and A minor sections, and a ‘Mazur[ka]' of 14 bars in D minor, signed (‘Ch’) twice at the end of each piece, n.p., n.d., meticulously notated in 38 bars on five systems of two staves on one page, 228 x 287mm , annotated in a 19th-century hand 'copié par Chopin', mounted on card with cut signatures of Arthur Rubinstein (1931) and Vladimir Horowitz (1978), in a portfolio, red morocco. Literature: Krystyna Kobylanska. Frédéric Chopin: Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (1979), VII b (Transkriptionen von Volksweisen ) , nos 7 and 8; J.M. Chominski & T.D. Turlo. Katalog dziel Fryderyka Chopina (1990), p.240 (Sketches, fragments, exercises), 'Folk melodies meticulously recorded on a single sheet'. Provenance : Sacha Guitry collection – his sale, Drouot, Paris, 21 November 1974 – private collection.
CHOPIN, Frédéric (1810-1849). Autograph music manuscript of two short works for piano, an ‘All[egre]tto’ of 24 bars, in contrasting A major and A minor sections, and a ‘Mazur[ka]' of 14 bars in D minor, signed (‘Ch’) twice at the end of each piece, n.p., n.d., meticulously notated in 38 bars on five systems of two staves on one page, 228 x 287mm , annotated in a 19th-century hand 'copié par Chopin', mounted on card with cut signatures of Arthur Rubinstein (1931) and Vladimir Horowitz (1978), in a portfolio, red morocco. Literature: Krystyna Kobylanska. Frédéric Chopin: Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (1979), VII b (Transkriptionen von Volksweisen ) , nos 7 and 8; J.M. Chominski & T.D. Turlo. Katalog dziel Fryderyka Chopina (1990), p.240 (Sketches, fragments, exercises), 'Folk melodies meticulously recorded on a single sheet'. Provenance : Sacha Guitry collection – his sale, Drouot, Paris, 21 November 1974 – private collection. TWO SHORT PIANO WORKS INSPIRED BY POLISH FOLK MUSIC.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
21 May 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
21 May 2014, London, King Street
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