PROKOFIEV, Sergei (1891-1953)
Autograph musical quotation signed ('Serge Prokofieff'), the theme for the March from his opera The Love for Three Oranges, [26 November] 1921.
Three bars on a single stave on one page, 178 x 115mm, giving the title as 'The Love for the three Oranges', on a bifolium with printed heading 'The autograph collection of Howes Norris, Jr'. Provenance: Howes Norris Jr (1867-1938) of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts – Sotheby's, 21 May 1999, lot 231.
The famous March from The Love for Three Oranges. Commissioned by Cleofonte Campanini, music director of the Chicago Opera Association after successful first visit to the United States in 1918, Prokofiev's satirical opera was initially set in French as L'Amour des trois oranges (the English title is arguably a slight mis-translation): its premiere took place in Chicago on 30 December 1921, having been delayed by Campanini's illness and death. The March, quoted here, is one of Prokofiev's best-known works, and was indeed quoted by the composer in act 2 of his ballet Cinderella.
PROKOFIEV, Sergei (1891-1953)
Autograph musical quotation signed ('Serge Prokofieff'), the theme for the March from his opera The Love for Three Oranges, [26 November] 1921.
Three bars on a single stave on one page, 178 x 115mm, giving the title as 'The Love for the three Oranges', on a bifolium with printed heading 'The autograph collection of Howes Norris, Jr'. Provenance: Howes Norris Jr (1867-1938) of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts – Sotheby's, 21 May 1999, lot 231.
The famous March from The Love for Three Oranges. Commissioned by Cleofonte Campanini, music director of the Chicago Opera Association after successful first visit to the United States in 1918, Prokofiev's satirical opera was initially set in French as L'Amour des trois oranges (the English title is arguably a slight mis-translation): its premiere took place in Chicago on 30 December 1921, having been delayed by Campanini's illness and death. The March, quoted here, is one of Prokofiev's best-known works, and was indeed quoted by the composer in act 2 of his ballet Cinderella.
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