Autograph letter signed D from the young composer to his closest friend at the time, Russian musicologist, critic, and composer Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky

by Dmitri Shostakovich

$3,800 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

4 pp. of a bifolium 2-1/2 pp. in purple ink, 1-1/2 pp. in pencil . Octavo. Addressed to Eldosha nickname . Dated Gaspra, Crimea, 16 July 1924. In Cyrillic with translation .A very colorful, personal, cryptic, and at times somewhat obscene, letter, from the not quite 18-year-old composer in which he writes to his best friend, telling him that he misses him very much and sending his review of Crimea, where he was sent to the spa town of Gaspra to recuperate after

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