RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (1873-1943)
Autograph musical quotation signed (‘S. Rachmaninow’), from the Second Piano Concerto, Op. 18, n.p., 26 May 1907.
One page, 260 x 170mm, three bars from the opening of the Second Piano Concerto, titled in autograph ‘2 Concerto pour Piano’, mounted on card, in a heat-sealed plastic sleeve (modern pencil annotation bottom left). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 7 December 2001, lot 159.
A fine, early autograph quotation by Rachmaninoff for his most enduringly popular work, the Second Piano Concerto. According to ABPC, no autograph quotations by Rachmaninoff dating to any earlier in his career than 1907 have come to international auction.
RACHMANINOFF, Sergei (1873-1943)
Autograph musical quotation signed (‘S. Rachmaninow’), from the Second Piano Concerto, Op. 18, n.p., 26 May 1907.
One page, 260 x 170mm, three bars from the opening of the Second Piano Concerto, titled in autograph ‘2 Concerto pour Piano’, mounted on card, in a heat-sealed plastic sleeve (modern pencil annotation bottom left). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 7 December 2001, lot 159.
A fine, early autograph quotation by Rachmaninoff for his most enduringly popular work, the Second Piano Concerto. According to ABPC, no autograph quotations by Rachmaninoff dating to any earlier in his career than 1907 have come to international auction.
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