Antiquarian music dealers specializing in autograph music manuscripts; autograph letters of composers and performers; first and early editions of rare printed music; rare books on classical music; rare dance books; original prints, drawings and ephemera relating to music and dance including opera and ballet, 15th to 21st centuries. Fine items and collections purchased. Established 1977.

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2 pp. Octavo. Addressed "Mio caro Peppino" and dated Moltrasio, July 15, no year but ca. 1830. Bellini has just received a letter from Rubini (most probably the Italian tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini 1794-1854) with sad news regarding the health of Bellini's mistress Giuditta Turina's sister Rosina: "I hasten to write to you to avoid any shock to Signora Giuditta Turina because it is doubtful whether or not her sister Rosina is or is not among the living... Her mother is coming and perhaps bringing some news with her. Please ask everyone to appear unaware of this tragedy... I don't know... how dear Giuditta will receive this news..."Slightly worn; lightly creased at folds; one small stain to outer margin just touching several letters; one edge slightly ragged with no loss of text; small decorative rectangular stamp of previous owner ("H. Prior") to blank margin of verso. BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835.
Autograph letter signed to Giuseppe Pasta, husband of the renowned soprano Giuditta Pasta (1797-1865).
2 pp. Octavo. Addressed "Mio caro Peppino" and dated Moltrasio, July 15, no year but ca. 1830. Bellini has just.. more
Price: $5,800.00
26 pp. Large folio (18" x 19", 457 x 483 mm). Signed and dated 2005. Notated on one side of the leaf only in an elegant calligraphic hand on 16-stave prepared paper. In black ink with revisions and additions in blue, green and violet felt-tip and red ballpoint pen. With many deletions and alterations, including a one-page cancel. A first draft, apparently discarded by the composer, for an alternate version. With autograph dedication to the violinist Baird Dodge (soloist in the first performance), the English composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.In very good condition. THOMAS, Augusta Read born 1964.
Carillon Sky for solo violin and chamber ensemble. Autograph musical manuscript of the complete work in full score.
26 pp. Large folio (18" x 19", 457 x 483 mm). Signed and dated 2005. Notated on one side of.. more
Price: $15,000.00
Folio. Unbound. 2 pp. written on both sides of a leaf of music manuscript paper carrying the printed identification "J.E. & Co. Protokollirte Schutzmarke No. 12." 343 x 263 mm. Four braces of three staves each, marked "Gemächlich" in Wolf's autograph at head of first page. 30 measures in total, notated in black ink, the signature and instrumentation in purple pencil. Several autograph corrections in ink, including to title. With editorial markings consisting primarily of accidentals added in blue crayon, possibly in another hand. Slightly worn, browned and foxed; horizontal creasing; some minor repairs. Professionally deacidified. WOLF, Hugo 1860-1903.
"Unfall." Song for voice and piano. Autograph musical manuscript signed. The complete song. Undated, but 1888.
Folio. Unbound. 2 pp. written on both sides of a leaf of music manuscript paper carrying the printed identification "J.E... more
Price: $25,000.00
Oblong folio. Early speckled tan paper boards. [i] (title), ii (blank), iii-iv (subscription list), v-x (foreword), xi-xviii (libretto), 112 pp. typeset music. With text in Danish and German. From the collection of the composer's grandson, the composer Karl Ernst Naumann (1832-1910), with his faint signature to title. Binding worn, rubbed and bumped; slightly lacking at spine. Some foxing and browning throughout. A very good copy overall. NAUMANN, Johann Gottlieb 1741-1801.
Orpheus und Euridice eine Oper... Clavierauszug der Partitur... herausgegeben von C.F. Cramer
Kiel: bey dem Herausgeber und in Hamburg in Commission bey Herrn Hofmann, 1787. Oblong folio. Early speckled tan paper boards. [i] (title), ii (blank), iii-iv (subscription list), v-x (foreword), xi-xviii (libretto), 112 pp... more
Price: $950.00
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