Autograph musical quotation from one of the composer's best known works, the symphonic suite Sheherazade, Op. 35, signed

by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky- Korsakov

$7,500 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

5 measures in piano score, being the first theme from the second movement of the work, The Story of the Kalander Prince. Notated in black ink on ivory card stock with autograph titling, marked Allegretto at head. Signed in full. Undated, but ca. 1890-1900. Small oblong octavo 63 x 101 mm. .Slightly browned; penultimate measure and a portion of Rimsky in the composer's signature slightly smudged. Composed in 1888, Sheherazade,

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