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Продан за: €1 000
Стартовая цена:
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Эстимейт :
€1 000 - €1 500
Комиссия аукционного дома: 25.5%
НДС: 17%
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ROSSINI GIOACCHINO: (1792-1868) Italian Composer. A prolific composer, known as 'The Italian Mozart', who until his retirement in 1829 had been the most popular opera composer in history. A very fine A.L., two pages, small 4to, n.p., [1851], to Antonio Duci, in Italian. Rossini reports how excited he is with the new musical instrument, the Baristrato, stating in part `I rejoice with you for the new instrument which I listened to thanks to your brother and which has just arrived here. The musical effect of this new mechanism is wonderful, the oscillating vibration of the low sounds which, in my opinion, are the first merit of this invention with much sense applied to sacred music…´ Rossini, fascinated by this new musical instrument, the Baristrato, further concludes `..they will bring a marvelous vigour to harmony..´ Paper with watermark. Very small overall minor age wear and creasing, otherwise VG
Rossini´s correspondent is Antonio Duci, a piano trader from Florence. Rossini refers to Antonio´s brother, Carlo Duci (1837-1900), a renowned pianist and composer. From Liszt´s letters we have a good idea of the role of Carlo Ducci in the instrumental world of Florence. In 1878 Liszt wrote `Thanks to the kindness of M. Carlo Ducci, who between Florence and Rome has more than two hundred pianos for hire…´
