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Auction archive: Lot number 26

Composers, singers and musicians.

Estimate
£1,500 - £1,800
ca. US$2,436 - US$2,923
Price realised:
£4,375
ca. US$7,105
Auction archive: Lot number 26

Composers, singers and musicians.

Estimate
£1,500 - £1,800
ca. US$2,436 - US$2,923
Price realised:
£4,375
ca. US$7,105
Beschreibung:

Composers, singers and musicians. COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND ALBUM-LEAVES SIGNED including by Berlioz (2; one a fragment about Les Troyens and his biography, 2 pages, no place or date, in two halves, repaired; the other to Engel, 1 page, Paris, 18/19 May, [1860?]), Paër (2), Johann Strauss the younger (mentioning Der Zigeunerbaron, 4 pages, no place or date [after 1885]), Boito (2; and a 7-bar autograph musical quotation from Mefistofele), Wagner (Joanna, soprano, niece of Richard Wagner 1826-1894, autograph quotation from Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", 1 page, 29 September 1854), Julius Stockhausen, Sims Reeves, George Henschel, Maurel, Melba, Norman O'Neill, Edward Lloyd Henry Russell, Otto Goldschmidt (2), Irving (letter signed), Laporte (about the King's Theatre), Tamburini, Gauntlett, Louisa Pyne, Henry Phillips (17, many written to the critic C.L. Gruneisen, and others to Henry Littleton of Novello's), Marcello (autograph signature on part of an official document from a board of examiners, no place or date, [Venice, 1714-1715]), c.80 items, various sizes, mostly nineteenth century

Auction archive: Lot number 26
Auction:
Datum:
8 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Composers, singers and musicians. COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND ALBUM-LEAVES SIGNED including by Berlioz (2; one a fragment about Les Troyens and his biography, 2 pages, no place or date, in two halves, repaired; the other to Engel, 1 page, Paris, 18/19 May, [1860?]), Paër (2), Johann Strauss the younger (mentioning Der Zigeunerbaron, 4 pages, no place or date [after 1885]), Boito (2; and a 7-bar autograph musical quotation from Mefistofele), Wagner (Joanna, soprano, niece of Richard Wagner 1826-1894, autograph quotation from Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", 1 page, 29 September 1854), Julius Stockhausen, Sims Reeves, George Henschel, Maurel, Melba, Norman O'Neill, Edward Lloyd Henry Russell, Otto Goldschmidt (2), Irving (letter signed), Laporte (about the King's Theatre), Tamburini, Gauntlett, Louisa Pyne, Henry Phillips (17, many written to the critic C.L. Gruneisen, and others to Henry Littleton of Novello's), Marcello (autograph signature on part of an official document from a board of examiners, no place or date, [Venice, 1714-1715]), c.80 items, various sizes, mostly nineteenth century

Auction archive: Lot number 26
Auction:
Datum:
8 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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