Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Lot 116

Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Autograph sketchleaf for the Schwedische Tänze [Swedish Dances] for violin and piano, op.63, [c.1891]

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Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Autograph sketchleaf for the Schwedische Tänze [Swedish Dances] for violin and piano, op.63, [c.1891]
Heavily revised drafts for three Swedish Dances.

Working manuscript with extensive emendations and cancellations for dances in E flat major, A minor and B minor, in black ink with revisions in blue pencil, up to twenty-two staves per page, two pages, 359 x 268mm, also including autograph instructions on the order of the dances ('Folgt B dur 3⁄8 ... Folgt N. 8 in D Dur ... Folgt Nr. 5 (in G dur) als N.11').

Provenance:
(1) Sotheby's, 28 May 1992, lot 504 (unsold).

(2) with Otto Haas, 2009.

(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 5430.

The Swedish Dances, 15 in all, were published by Simrock in 1892, initially for violin and piano, and subsequently for piano four-hands, military band and full orchestra.