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L13402
05 June 2013 • London
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363 lots
  • Remarkable autograph letter signed (“RichardWagner”), providing an outline of the plans for The Ring of the Nibelungen and announcing his decision to stop work on the project and write Tristan und Isolde,
    Estimate: 8,000 – 10,000 GBP
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  • Das Rheingold...vollständiger Klavierauszug von Karl Klindworth, Mainz, bei B. Schott's Söhnen, [1861]
    Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
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  • Fine autograph letter signed (“RichardWagner”), to a friend (“Mein theuerer Freund!”),
    Estimate: 5,000 – 6,000 GBP
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  • Fine autograph letter signed (“Richard Wagner”), to Franz Betz, the first “Hans Sachs”, about Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, written in the year of the premiere of the opera,
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Autograph letter signed (“Rich Wagner”), to the Leipzig publisher Ernst Wilhelm Fritzsch
    Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP
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  • Il secondo libro de madregali a cinque voci, novamente con nova guinta ristampati, Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1564
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
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  • Thoscanello de la musica, Venice: Bernardino et Matheo de Vitali, 24 July 1523
    Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
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  • Descrizione degl' istromenti armonici d'ogni genere del Padre Bonannio seconda edizione...Description des instrumens harmoniques en tout genre par le père Bonanni. Seconde édition, Rome: for Venanzio Monaldini, 1776
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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  • Musico prattico che brevemente dimostra...la composizione de i canti, e di ciò ch' all' arte del contrapunto si ricerca, opera ottava...del concerto degli strumenti, Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1673
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
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  • Historia musica, nella quale si ha piena cognitione della teorica, e della pratica antica, Perugia: Pe'l Costantini, 1695
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
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  • A General History of Music, London: for the author by Becket, Robson and Robinson, 1776 [volume one]; for the author by Robson and Robinson, 1782 [volume two]; for the author by Payne and Son, Robson and Clark and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789 [volumes three and four]
    Estimate: 1,800 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED