May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 170

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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
HUMPERDINCK, ENGLEBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, "EHumperdinck," a postcard to Richard Rühle-Zechlin, in German, stating that his music for Merchant [of Venice] would be published by himself this winter. Address ink stamp on verso. 1 page, 12mo; minor scattered creases and soiling. [Berlin: from postmark], 3 February 1906
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". . . I inform you that it has not yet appeared, but that it will be published by me in the course of this winter."
Humperdinck's incidental music to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice was first performed in 1905 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.