Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 618
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
"I AM FINISHED." RUBINSTEIN, ANTON. Autograph Letter Signed, "Ant. Rubinstein," to Johann von Herbeck ("Dear Mr. Director"), in German, inviting him to listen to his completed opera [The Demon], and requesting permission to inform others [of the performance]. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; lower edge trimmed, horizontal fold. With the original envelope, addressed in his hand. Np, 29 November 1871
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"I am finished. Give me the date and hour at which you want to listen to my opera. I am always free, except on Tuesday evenings between 7 and 9 o'clock, the reason for which you probably know. And let me know whether I can also let Dessoff, Mosenthal, and Richard and Gustav Lewy be told of it."
Rubinstein played and sang his recently-completed opera, The Demon, before a small group of guests at the Repertory Hall of the Maryinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg on September 14, 1871.
From the Jimmy Van Heusen Collection.