Autograph musical quotation signed and dated 2 April 1952 from the composer's opera Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond

by Friedrich von Flotow

$850 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

4 measures of the vocal line and text from the final number of the third act, the quintet Mag der Himmel Euch vergeben. Notated in brown ink on an album leaf 114 x 183 mm.On ivory paper with thin strip of brown mounting paper to edges of verso; very slightly soiled and foxed. Martha, a romantic comic opera in 4 acts to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese de based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, was first

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