Fine printed and manuscript music
Subtitle: auction, Friday 4 December 1998 at 10:30 am
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Music; Bibliography; Catalogs; Manuscripts; Autographs; Composers; Correspondence
Notes: "Sale LN8727."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Autograph letter by Monteverdi, 1630; title: Four autograph manuscripts by Schumann, including Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74, Märchenbilder op. 113, and songs from Liederkreis op. 24 and Myrthen op. 25; title: J.C. Bach, an autograph manuscript of an aria for Orfeo, c. 1770; title: The autograph manuscript of Offenbach's opera I'lle de Tulipatan; title: The autograph manuscript of Honegger's opera Judith; title: Musical manuscripts by Copland, Berlioz, Gershwin, Janacek, Liszt, Spontini and Sullivan; title: Autograph letters by Haydn and Schubert and important series by Schoenberg, Puccini and Diaghilev; title: Important early editions of music by Marenzio, Purcell, Handel, Mozart, J.C. Bach and others and a good collection of early engraved portraits of composers from Lassus to Beethoven.