Autograph letter signed Bellini to Count Rodolphe Apponyi
$3,800 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
2 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated Monday morning. Postmarked ? January 12, 1835. With Weynen Superfin blindstamped to upper portions of leaves. Integral address panel with the recipient's name and the address of the Austrian Embassy in Paris to final page. With fully intact red wax seal. In Italian and French with translation . Bellini tries to secure the Count a place at the première of his latest opera and invites the Count's wife to one of its dress
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