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Auction archive: Lot number 20

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Estimate
£300,000 - £400,000
ca. US$403,192 - US$537,590
Price realised:
£345,000
ca. US$463,671
Auction archive: Lot number 20

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Estimate
£300,000 - £400,000
ca. US$403,192 - US$537,590
Price realised:
£345,000
ca. US$463,671
Beschreibung:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE UNFINISHED ALLEGRO IN G FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS, K.357 (497A) a composing manuscript, notated in blackish brown ink on up to three four-stave systems per page, with autograph tempo-marking ("Allegro:") and autograph designations " Mano dritta " and " Mano sinistra :", comprising 98 bars in all, the score breaking off near the end of the first system at the ninth bar of the development section, with a few autograph corrections and smudgings-out 4 pages, oblong 4to (23.3 x 32.1cm), paper ruled with a 12-stave rastrum, Tyson Watermark 95, untrimmed, retaining deckle edge, a few later manuscript annotations in pencil and crayon, attestation of authenticity in ink by Heinrich Henkel to upper margin of first page ("Von Mozart und seiner Handschrift. Heinr. Henkel"), pinholes, modern cloth-backed folder, no place or date [Vienna, 1787-1789], splitting along hinge, a few minute tears to upper edges

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE UNFINISHED ALLEGRO IN G FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS, K.357 (497A) a composing manuscript, notated in blackish brown ink on up to three four-stave systems per page, with autograph tempo-marking ("Allegro:") and autograph designations " Mano dritta " and " Mano sinistra :", comprising 98 bars in all, the score breaking off near the end of the first system at the ninth bar of the development section, with a few autograph corrections and smudgings-out 4 pages, oblong 4to (23.3 x 32.1cm), paper ruled with a 12-stave rastrum, Tyson Watermark 95, untrimmed, retaining deckle edge, a few later manuscript annotations in pencil and crayon, attestation of authenticity in ink by Heinrich Henkel to upper margin of first page ("Von Mozart und seiner Handschrift. Heinr. Henkel"), pinholes, modern cloth-backed folder, no place or date [Vienna, 1787-1789], splitting along hinge, a few minute tears to upper edges

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2018
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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