![]() The critical edition by the renowned Beethoven scholar Mario Aschauer comes to new conclusions. What has survived, however, is an extensive autograph draft that Beethoven substantially revised around 1822 for a planned but then unrealised collection of bagatelles and which differs significantly from the known printed version. ![]() It was first published in 1867 by the Beethoven scholar Ludwig Nohl who still had access to Beethoven’s autograph. Wondering how much your musical manuscript might yield at a Sotheby’s auction? CLICK HERE to request an estimate.A number of questions regarding Beethoven’s most famous bagatelle, „Für Elise“, remain unanswered until today: What happened to the complete autograph and who was „Elise“? The bagatelle was written between 18. Even Homer nods…ĬLICK HERE to read about the discovery of a previously unrecorded Gustav Mahler manuscript, to be offered for sale in the Musical Manuscripts sale on 22 May in London. In the end he did not bid, having come to the conclusion that, whilst it was "a very interesting and rare manuscript", the music itself was "terrible". One of the greatest music collectors was fascinated by this item from a composer of whom he held nothing and asked for lots more information. It was the first substantial manuscript of this famous composer ever to be sold at auction for the reasons adumbrated, and sold for within the estimates. Sotheby's sold a manuscript by one of the composers mentioned above for a six-figure sum a few years ago. However, to make a great price it has also to be great piece, be the composer ever so rare. Others are rare on the market for various reasons: Handel (because practically all his autographs are in the British Library), Tchaikovsky (because they are practically all in Russia), and Mussorgsky (because he died poor, unrecognised and drunk before anyone had the foresight to keep his manuscripts, and those that survive are in Russia). ESTIMATE: £200,000-300,000, FROM FINE AUTOGRAPH MUSIC: THE PROPERTY OF HELMUT NANZ AND FAMILY, 22 MAY. RICHARD WAGNER, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE FIRST POETICAL DRAFT OF THE LIBRETTO OF "TANNHÄUSER". In the case of the manuscript sold at Sotheby’s in 2003 for £2.1m ($3.5m), the symphony is by Beethoven, but the manuscript was written out by a copyist and corrected by the composer. ![]() If the composer is great enough and the work important enough - and they don’t get much greater than Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony - then the manuscript does not even have to be entirely autograph. This manuscript is still owned by the private purchaser who bought it 1987. The previous auction record for a post-medieval manuscript was held by a Mozart volume, containing no fewer than nine symphonies in his hand, which made £2.5m ($4.7m) way back in 1987. This is arguably the most popular symphony by one of the world’s most popular symphonists. SOLD FOR £4,546,250 IN 2016.įor this reason the highest price for any post-medieval manuscript at Sotheby’s, meaning one enshrining a masterpiece (rather than being itself a masterpiece of calligraphy, painting or illumination), is held by a complete musical work: Mahler's Second Symphony, which realised a price of £4.5m ($5.6m) on 29 November 2016. If the manuscript of a substantial work by a great composer comes to the market then the price tends to break records. However, music has the added advantage of being an “international language”. ![]() The availability of autograph literary manuscripts, say by Jane Austen, George Eliot or Goethe, is much more restricted than with music only the French market compares with music. In the rarefied world of manuscripts, Music has a special place because such autographs can still be found, in a way that is seldom matched in literature. It is remarkable that original manuscripts written by JS Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, the three greatest figures in Western Music, are still available at auction. ESTIMATE: £150,000-200,000, FROM FINE AUTOGRAPH MUSIC: THE PROPERTY OF HELMUT NANZ AND FAMILY, 22 MAY.Īutograph manuscripts written by the world’s greatest composers are highly sought-after because of who wrote them. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, REMARKABLE AUTOGRAPH SKETCHLEAF FOR THE STRING QUARTET IN C, OP.59 NO.3, THE SECOND MOVEMENT.
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