Autograph musical quotation from the composer's noted opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, signed in full
$650 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
2 measures of the melodic line, one in 6/8 and one in 5/8, marked Allegretto at head, identified as being from Amahl, and dated 1990. With text commencing Thank you, thank you, thank you kindly. Notated in black ink on a portion of a leaf of music paper. Oblong octavo. Amahl and the Night Visitors, commissioned by NBC, was the first opera written expressly for American television. In writing it, Menotti was influenced by The Adoration of the Magi of
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