Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

181 UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT 181 c   MEYERBEER, GIACOMO. Autograph Musical Manuscript dated and Signed, fair copy of his unpublished setting of C.H.Millevoye’s poem“Le Retour,” 47 bars notated on 6 systems of three machine-ruled staves, with holograph lyrics and tempo directive. Signed after the last bar. 1 1 / 2 pages, oblong folio, two leaves joined with paper strip; some chipping along upper edge repaired with paper recto, few short closed separations at folds and edges; framed. Paris, 16 January 1839 [1,500/2,500] Letellier and Arsenty in Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Non-Operatic Texts , 2007, list “Le retour” as an unpublished work. 182 c   MEYERBEER,GIACOMO. Autograph Note Signed,“Meyerbeer,”to an unnamed recipient, in German, sending a 3-line greeting. 6x5 1 / 2 inches; short closed tear in left margin, faint scattered staining, folds. Vienna, 11 April 1847 [80/120] 183 183 c   MEYERBEER, GIACOMO Autograph Letter Signed, “Meyerbeer,” to “My dear Mister Lanis[?], in French, send- ing tickets [not present] to tomorrow’s performance of his L’étoile du nord . 1 / 2 page, 8vo, with integral blank; terminal page mounted to larger sheet, right edge inex- pertly reinforced verso with resulting faint staining on recto, horizontal folds. Np, “Wednesday” [400/600]