Autograph musical sketchleaf from the composer's opera Benvenuto Cellini
$3,000 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
1 leaf. Oblong folio 268 x ca. 170 mm . 7 measures, notated in black ink on one side of the leaf. Unsigned.Several notes crossed out and a final passage rewritten. A first draft of a polyphonic theme. Identified in German in contemporary manuscript at head: Handschrift von Hector Berlioz Erste Skizze. Benvenuto Cellini . Some wear and browning; slightly creased at folds; lower edge unevenly trimmed. The present
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