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Auction archive: Lot number 88

Mahler, Gustav

Musical Manuscripts
22 May 2018
Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$80,638 - US$107,518
Price realised:
£68,750
ca. US$92,398
Auction archive: Lot number 88

Mahler, Gustav

Musical Manuscripts
22 May 2018
Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$80,638 - US$107,518
Price realised:
£68,750
ca. US$92,398
Beschreibung:

Mahler, Gustav AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF SYMPHONY NO.4, A HITHERTO UNKNOWN LEAF FROM THE COMPOSITION DRAFT, 1899 being "folio 4", from the first movement, the short score notated in black ink on four systems of four or five staves each, with additions in pencil, some heavy deletions, comprising thirty bars of music (equivalent to bars 154 to 183, starting one bar before figure 12 in the final version), the music essentially complete, without any instrumental designations or dynamics 1 page, oblong folio (26.5 x 34.3cm), numbered by the composer in blue crayon ("4", previously "3"), 24-stave paper (J.E. & Co. no.14), watermarked ("J.E. & Co. / Wien"), signed and inscribed on the verso by the composer's widow ("Skizzenblatt aus der IV Symphonie, Alma Maria Mahler"), [Vienna, late July 1899], some holes in the lowest system slightly affecting the text in the first bar

Auction archive: Lot number 88
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Mahler, Gustav AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF SYMPHONY NO.4, A HITHERTO UNKNOWN LEAF FROM THE COMPOSITION DRAFT, 1899 being "folio 4", from the first movement, the short score notated in black ink on four systems of four or five staves each, with additions in pencil, some heavy deletions, comprising thirty bars of music (equivalent to bars 154 to 183, starting one bar before figure 12 in the final version), the music essentially complete, without any instrumental designations or dynamics 1 page, oblong folio (26.5 x 34.3cm), numbered by the composer in blue crayon ("4", previously "3"), 24-stave paper (J.E. & Co. no.14), watermarked ("J.E. & Co. / Wien"), signed and inscribed on the verso by the composer's widow ("Skizzenblatt aus der IV Symphonie, Alma Maria Mahler"), [Vienna, late July 1899], some holes in the lowest system slightly affecting the text in the first bar

Auction archive: Lot number 88
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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