Autograph musical quotation signed and dated Leipzig, April 19, 1849

by Carl Ferdinand Becker

$280 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

1 page. 8 measures from an unidentified work in F major for piano marked Adagio. Small folio 250 x 195 mm. . Notated in ink on hand-ruled staves, with 28 in manuscript to upper margin, presumably denoting album page number.Becker, a German organist, musicologist, and music collector, was a founding member of the Bach-Gesellschaft. In his twenties Becker began to collect early printed music and manuscripts as well as musical literature. Based on his important

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