AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
By International Autograph Auctions
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Dec 2, 2020
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 305:
VERDI GIUSEPPE: (1813-1901) Italian Composer. A rare and excellent A.M.Q.S.,`G. Verdi´, one page, oblong 8vo, May ...
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Sold for: €3,600
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€2,500 - €3,500
Buyer's Premium: 25.5%
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VERDI GIUSEPPE: (1813-1901) Italian Composer. A rare and excellent A.M.Q.S.,`G. Verdi´, one page, oblong 8vo, May 1894, in Italian. Verdi has penned a four bars quote of music which he identifies from his opera Falstaff (1893) to the upper left corner. Verdi also adds beneath the musical quote the words, `Tutto nel mondo e burla. L´uom e nato burlone´ (''Everything in the world is a jest. Man is born a joker''), in his hand, from the opera Falstaff, a well-known aria of the third act, being the opera finale. A very desirable signed quotation only few months after its premiere in Milan. Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare´s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. Premiered in February 1893 at La Scala of Milan. Falstaff was Verdi´s last opera.
