Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
COMPLETE VOCAL SCORE OF "THE LIBERATION OF THESEUS" MILHAUD, DARIUS. Autograph Musical Manuscript dated and Signed, twice ("Milhaud" and in full), working draft of the vocal score for his single-act opera The Liberation of Theseus (Op. 99), notated on systems of between 2 and 8 staves, with holograph title-page and introductory text and lyrics, in French. Signed in byline on title-page and after last bar. German lyrics and notes in unknown hand. 16 pages, folio, 16 machine-ruled staves on recto and verso, written on two folded sheets and 6 loose leaves; chipping and minor loss to center vertical fold of cover, publisher's ink stamps on cover and first page of music, faint scattered soiling throughout; custom cloth box with gilt spine title. "L'Enclos" [Aix-en-Provence], 18 April 1927

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with--Darius Milhaud. La délivrance de Thésée: opéra minute en six scènes. Narrow 4to, printed wrappers. Wien: Universal Edition, 1953.
From the Jimmy Van Heusen Collection.