SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Autograph musical quotation signed (‘D Shostakovich’), from Symphony No. 15, Op. 141, Moscow, 24 September 1973.
In Russian. One page, 64 x 89mm, three bars on a single stave, titled in autograph ‘the beginning of the 15th Symphony’, annotated description in a later hand on verso (faint stain at top left corner). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 4 December 1998, lot 289.
A quotation from the enigmatic Fifteenth Symphony. Shortly after completing his Fifteenth Symphony on 17 September 1971, Shostakovich suffered a second heart attack, putting a temporary halt to an output that comprised at least one major composition per year in his final decade, a time marked by steadily increasing recognition and success.
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Autograph musical quotation signed (‘D Shostakovich’), from Symphony No. 15, Op. 141, Moscow, 24 September 1973.
In Russian. One page, 64 x 89mm, three bars on a single stave, titled in autograph ‘the beginning of the 15th Symphony’, annotated description in a later hand on verso (faint stain at top left corner). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 4 December 1998, lot 289.
A quotation from the enigmatic Fifteenth Symphony. Shortly after completing his Fifteenth Symphony on 17 September 1971, Shostakovich suffered a second heart attack, putting a temporary halt to an output that comprised at least one major composition per year in his final decade, a time marked by steadily increasing recognition and success.
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