Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 224

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MUSICIANS--19TH-20TH CENTURIES.) Group of 7 Autograph Musical Quotations, each Signed but one, by French and American composers. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

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Jules Massenet. 4 bars from the "Méditation" in his Thaïs. 2 1/4x3 1/2 inches. Paris, 1900 Ernest Bloch. 3 bars from his America, An Epic Rhapsody. 3x4 1/4 inches. Buffalo, October 1933 Camille Saint-Saëns. 5 bars from an unnamed work, on verso of an admirer's calling card. 1 1/4x3 inches. Np, 1900 Cécile Chaminade. 3 bars from her "Au pays bleu!" written on a postcard. 3 1/4x4 1/2 inches. "Tamaris sur Mer," February 1906 Henri Rabaud. Two bars from an unnamed work. 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches. Les Andelys, 9 August 1920 César Franck. Unsigned, fragments of a work including a fugue and theme in 14 bars, with caption in an unknown hand: "Conservatoire. Concours d'orgue." 9x12 inches. Np, 1889 Roger Sessions. 6 bars from The Black Maskers. 3 1/4x6 3/4 inches. Np, 5 March 1959.
From the Jimmy Van Heusen Collection.