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Autograph letter signed ('Edvard Grieg'), including an autograph musical quotation signed, to an unknown recipient ('Dear Sir'), Bergen, Norway, 29 June 1892.
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GRIEG, Edvard (1843-1907)
Autograph letter signed ('Edvard Grieg'), including an autograph musical quotation signed, to an unknown recipient ('Dear Sir'), Bergen, Norway, 29 June 1892.
In English, two pages, 182 x 115mm, the musical quotation comprising four bars from the violin sonata no.2 in G (op.13), on two staves. Provenance: Christie's, 26 June 1996, lot 257.
An appealingly pithy letter in English, with a musical quotation. The letter betrays a certain exasperation with his correspondent's questions: 'I should think it quite impossible to answer your questions / 1) as I have no method at all when composing! / 2) as the art of composition is not at all to be learned and still – must be learned! / 3) as I have no particular favourite comopser. All good composers are my favourites!'.
Autograph letter signed ('Edvard Grieg'), including an autograph musical quotation signed, to an unknown recipient ('Dear Sir'), Bergen, Norway, 29 June 1892.
In English, two pages, 182 x 115mm, the musical quotation comprising four bars from the violin sonata no.2 in G (op.13), on two staves. Provenance: Christie's, 26 June 1996, lot 257.
An appealingly pithy letter in English, with a musical quotation. The letter betrays a certain exasperation with his correspondent's questions: 'I should think it quite impossible to answer your questions / 1) as I have no method at all when composing! / 2) as the art of composition is not at all to be learned and still – must be learned! / 3) as I have no particular favourite comopser. All good composers are my favourites!'.
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