• Valuable Manuscripts and Print auction at Christies

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    Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books

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    21 November 2012

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    • BERLIOZ, Hector (1803-1869). A
    Lot 53

    BERLIOZ, Hector (1803-1869). Autograph letter signed ('H. Berlioz') to Joseph Joachim, Deutsches Haus, Brunswick, 4 April [1854], confirming that they will be playing his overture Le Corsaire and the banquet and adagio from his symphony Roméo et Juliette; he asks Joachim to bring the German text for two other pieces, one page, 4to (minor loss to right margin). Provenance: Stargardt, 28 October 1955, cat. 524, lot 342.

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    BERLIOZ, Hector (1803-1869). Autograph letter signed ('H. Berlioz') to Joseph Joachim, Deutsches Haus, Brunswick, 4 April [1854], confirming that they will be playing his overture Le Corsaire and the banquet and adagio from his symphony Roméo et Juliette; he asks Joachim to bring the German text for two other pieces, one page, 4to (minor loss to right margin). Provenance: Stargardt, 28 October 1955, cat. 524, lot 342.

    'Oui, nous jouerons le Corsaire et deux autres morceaux (La Fête et l'adagio) de Romeo. / Si vous venez, soyez assez bon pour m'apporter les paroles allemandes de l'Absence et de La Captive que Mr Nieper (?) avait eu la bonté de me promettre et que je ferai chanter à Dresde'. Apparently unpublished: not in the Correspondance Générale, ed. Citron (1983-2003), where its existence is however surmised.

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