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Auction archive: Lot number 12

J. BRAHMS, AUTOGRAPH LETTER ON A VISITING CARD, AND PRINTED FUNERAL NOTICE, 1880S-1890S AND 1897

Musical Manuscripts
28 Nov 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,004 - US$2,673
Price realised:
£2,750
ca. US$3,675
Auction archive: Lot number 12

J. BRAHMS, AUTOGRAPH LETTER ON A VISITING CARD, AND PRINTED FUNERAL NOTICE, 1880S-1890S AND 1897

Musical Manuscripts
28 Nov 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,004 - US$2,673
Price realised:
£2,750
ca. US$3,675
Beschreibung:

Brahms, Johannes AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO AN UNNAMED RECIPIENT, AND A PRINTED NOTICE FOR BRAHMS'S FUNERAL noting that his letter only reached him on the twenty-first of the month at Ischl, and therefore too late for him to provide a literary contribution for publication on the twenty-eighth, and expressing his regret that he will not be present personally to celebrate the first number [of the publication] ("...Ihr Brief erreichte mich erst heute den 21.ten in Ischl; für einen "schriftstellerischen Beitrag" der den 28.ten gedrückt sein soll, zu spät...") 2 pages, on a printed visiting card of the composer, 5.6 x 9cm, [presumably Ischl,] 1880s-1890s together with a printed notice of Brahms's funeral on 6 April 1897, issued by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, addressed on the verso in manuscript to Baron Nikolaus Dumba, 1 page, oblong 4to (c.23 x 29cm), heavy black borders, postmarked Vienna, 5 April 1897, a few tiny holes

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
28 Nov 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Brahms, Johannes AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO AN UNNAMED RECIPIENT, AND A PRINTED NOTICE FOR BRAHMS'S FUNERAL noting that his letter only reached him on the twenty-first of the month at Ischl, and therefore too late for him to provide a literary contribution for publication on the twenty-eighth, and expressing his regret that he will not be present personally to celebrate the first number [of the publication] ("...Ihr Brief erreichte mich erst heute den 21.ten in Ischl; für einen "schriftstellerischen Beitrag" der den 28.ten gedrückt sein soll, zu spät...") 2 pages, on a printed visiting card of the composer, 5.6 x 9cm, [presumably Ischl,] 1880s-1890s together with a printed notice of Brahms's funeral on 6 April 1897, issued by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, addressed on the verso in manuscript to Baron Nikolaus Dumba, 1 page, oblong 4to (c.23 x 29cm), heavy black borders, postmarked Vienna, 5 April 1897, a few tiny holes

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
28 Nov 2017
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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