The manuscript for Sibelius’s Spagnuolo is being auctioned by Sotheby’s on 26 June 2024 at 10:00 BST.
Ths manuscript of Spagnuolo for piano, JS 181, is boldly signed (‘Jean Sibelius’). it is a fair-copy manuscript, written in black ink on up to six two-stave systems per page, with bold autograph title (‘Spagnuolo’) at head and signature at end (‘Jean Sibelius’), a few deletions and erasures.
Auction: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern; Lot 148.
Price estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP
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