RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts

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Headquartered in Boston’s North End, RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted source for rare documents, manuscripts, autographs, and historic artifacts. Since its inception in 1980, RR has achieved countless record-setting prices in over 425 successful sales, including Truman Capote’s hand-notated manuscript for Breakfast at Tiffany’s for over $300,000, President Kennedy’s 1963 convertible for $318,000, and a pair of Bonnie and Clyde’s guns for over $500,000. Internationally known and frequently featured in all media outlets—with appearances on NBC’s Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and the London Times—RR Auction prides itself on selling authentic material, thoroughly examined by in-house experts and third-party authenticators, to uphold the guarantee of authenticity. With a stunning full-color print catalog and a massive online presence, RR Auction continues to achieve record prices for clients around the world.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Clara Haskil748 - Clara Haskil
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Romanian classical pianist (1895–1960), renowned for her interpretational performances and recordings of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Scarlatti. C
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Fromental Halevy749 - Fromental Halevy
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French composer of over thirty operas, best known for La Juive (1799–1862). Lengthy AMQS on an off-white 11.75 x 8.75 sheet, signed at the conclusion,
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Zoltan Kodaly750 - Zoltan Kodaly
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Prominent Hungarian composer, educator, ethnomusicologist, linguist, author, and philosopher (1882–1967). ALS in German, signed “Z. Kodaly,” one page
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Franz Lehar751 - Franz Lehar
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Signed book: the piano and vocal score for Giuditta. Leipzig: Verlag W. Karczag, 1933. Expertly rebound in a quarter-leather blue binding with origina
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Edouard Lalo752 - Edouard Lalo
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French composer (1823–1892). AMQS on an 8.5 x 6.5 sheet of musically-lined paper. Lalo pens seven bars of music and lyrics on a system of four staves,
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Franz Liszt753 - Franz Liszt
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ALS in French, signed “F. Liszt,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.75, March 4, 1898. Letter to composer and music publisher Antonio Paci
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy754 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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Prodigiously gifted German Romantic composer (1809–1847). His musical output represents virtually every form and genre of the era, ranging from piano
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Estimate : 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
 
 
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Yehudi Menuhin755 - Yehudi Menuhin
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ALS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, The Drake letterhead, November 8, 1961. Fantastic letter concerning the Israel Philharmonic. In part: “To me, as a violini
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Giacomo Meyerbeer756 - Giacomo Meyerbeer
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German-born composer (1791–1864) best known for such operas as Les Hugenots and Robert le diable. ALS in German, signed “G. Meyerbeer,” one page, 5.25
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Jacques Offenbach757 - Jacques Offenbach
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French composer (1819–1880) best known for his popular stage works, most notably Orpheus in the Underworld (including the famous ‘Can-Can’) and The Ta
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Hans Pfitzner758 - Hans Pfitzner
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Self-proclaimed ‘anti-modernist’ German composer (1869–1949), best known for his opera Palestrina, based on the life of the famed sixteenth-century co
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Giacomo Puccini759 - Giacomo Puccini
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Handwritten musical manuscript, unsigned, one page, 10.75 x 14.75, no date. A correction page from La Fanciulla del West, Act II, following the words
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Estimate : 5,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Albert Roussel760 - Albert Roussel
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Leading French composer during the interwar period (1869–1937). ALS in French, one page both sides, 8 x 5, February 22, 1930. Letter to Irving Schwerk
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Sergei Rachmaninoff and Igor Stravinsky761 - Sergei Rachmaninoff and Igor Stravinsky
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Desirable pairing of signatures: a fountain pen signature, “S. Rachmaninoff,” on an off-white 6 x 2.25 slip; and a red ballpoint signature, “Igor Stra
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Anton Rubinstein762 - Anton Rubinstein
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Russian pianist, composer, and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1829–1894).
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Arnold Schoenberg763 - Arnold Schoenberg
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Vintage ink signature, “From Fritz Mehlich, Arnold Schoenberg, 26.VI.1932,” on an off-white 3.5 x 2.25 card. In fine condition.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Arnold Schoenberg764 - Arnold Schoenberg
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Austrian-born composer (1874–1951) whose development of the ‘twelve-tone’ system proved to be one of the most far-reaching innovations in the history
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
 
 
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Clara Schumann765 - Clara Schumann
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ALS in German, signed “C. Schumann,” one page on a 5.5 x 3.35 postcard, July 28, 1894. Letter to Mrs. Scholz, in part (translated): “We received your
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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John Philip Sousa767 - John Philip Sousa
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AMQS on a 5.25 x 3.5 photo postcard of the White House’s Blue Room. Sousa pens five bars from his march ‘The Washington Post,’ identifying it below an
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Richard Strauss769 - Richard Strauss
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Exceptional matte-finish 3.25 x 5 postcard portrait of Strauss with a severe expression on his face, signed in black ink, “Dr. Richard Strauss.” Hands
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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