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Auction archive: Lot number 59

R. SCHUMANN, AUTOGRAPH CATALOGUE OF HIS MUSIC LIBRARY, IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING, C.1853

Estimate
£25,000 - £30,000
ca. US$31,071 - US$37,285
Price realised:
£27,500
ca. US$34,178
Auction archive: Lot number 59

R. SCHUMANN, AUTOGRAPH CATALOGUE OF HIS MUSIC LIBRARY, IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING, C.1853

Estimate
£25,000 - £30,000
ca. US$31,071 - US$37,285
Price realised:
£27,500
ca. US$34,178
Beschreibung:

Schumann, Robert THE AUTOGRAPH CATALOGUE OF HIS MUSIC LIBRARY, TITLED BY HIM "KATALOGE." with his elegant contents page, showing the classification of his catalogue into church music, operas, orchestral music, chamber music, theoretical & historical books and gifts bearing composers' dedications, meticulously prepared in his calligraphic hand in dark brown ink, listing editions and manuscripts of works by Bach (the first three volumes of the "Leipziger Bachgesellschaft" complete edition), Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Wagner (but none of Liszt), also recording in the final appendix works presented to him by Brahms (Sonata op.5), Berlioz (Les Franc-Juges), Chopin (Ballades opp.23 & 38), Mendelssohn (Scherzo a capriccio) and Wagner (Tannhäuser), together with manuscripts of Beethoven's Violin Concerto ("Geschrieben, Geschenk von Joachim") and many others, some 372 items in all 36 pages, large 4to (c.31 x 25cm), on ruled paper paginated by the composer (1-34), contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, c.1853

Auction archive: Lot number 59
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Schumann, Robert THE AUTOGRAPH CATALOGUE OF HIS MUSIC LIBRARY, TITLED BY HIM "KATALOGE." with his elegant contents page, showing the classification of his catalogue into church music, operas, orchestral music, chamber music, theoretical & historical books and gifts bearing composers' dedications, meticulously prepared in his calligraphic hand in dark brown ink, listing editions and manuscripts of works by Bach (the first three volumes of the "Leipziger Bachgesellschaft" complete edition), Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Wagner (but none of Liszt), also recording in the final appendix works presented to him by Brahms (Sonata op.5), Berlioz (Les Franc-Juges), Chopin (Ballades opp.23 & 38), Mendelssohn (Scherzo a capriccio) and Wagner (Tannhäuser), together with manuscripts of Beethoven's Violin Concerto ("Geschrieben, Geschenk von Joachim") and many others, some 372 items in all 36 pages, large 4to (c.31 x 25cm), on ruled paper paginated by the composer (1-34), contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards, c.1853

Auction archive: Lot number 59
Auction:
Datum:
29 Nov 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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