Lot 33
  • 33

Liszt, Franz

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Liszt, Franz
  • Printed document with autograph entries, signed ("F. Liszt"), assigning the rights for his 'Ungarischer Sturmmarsch' to the publisher Robert Lienau
the document also acknowledging receipt of the fee of three hundred marks 

...[printed:] Ich Endes unterzeichneter erkläre hierdurch, dass ich der Schlesinger'schen Buch- u. Musikhandlung (Rob. Lienau) in Berlin Französische Strasse 23 meine Composition, betitelt: [autograph:] Ungarischer Sturmmarsch für Orchester, derselbe für Pianoforte zu 2 und 4 Händen, Neue Bearbeitung [printed:] als alleiniges und ausschliessliches Eigenthum für alle Länder...ohne irgend welchen Vorbehalt und mit allen mir gesetzlich zustehenden Rechte übertragen habe...



1 page, 4to (24.9 x 19.5cm), printed form with manuscript entries by Liszt, Weimar, 18 April 1876, splitting to folds, light browning



together with: Strauss, Richard. Autograph address panel ("Herrn Dr. Ernst Schwarz New York Hotel Savoy Plaza"), 1 page, 12 x 17.4cm, cut down from an envelope, postmarked 14 August 1948; and including: three typed letters signed by Strauss's son Franz to Ernst Schwarz, one typed letter and one autograph letter by Strauss's daughter-in-law Alice to Schwarz, 5 pages, 4to and oblong 8vo, Alice Strauss's letter on the reverse of a black-edged printed card acknowledging the family's thanks for sympathy received following Strauss's death, 27 December 1948-31 December 1949; a printed receipt signed by Franz Strauss (18 May 1947), for cigarettes received from Ernst Schwarz; a telegram from Lotte Lehmann to Ernst Strauss on the death of Strauss; a carbon copy of a letter from Ernst Scharz to Strauss, 1 page, 2 June 1949, and two carbon-copy receipts for two packages shipped to Strauss in July 1949; and a typed letter signed by Franz Strauss to Prof. Robert Haas, 1 page, Garmisch, 19 March 1934, with a typed envelope  

Condition

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