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Rimsky-Korsakov - ALS With Great Musical Content

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,250.00 USD Estimated At:2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD
Rimsky-Korsakov - ALS With Great Musical Content
<Our item number 109999><B>Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich.</B> &#40;1844-1908&#41; Russian composer; his works include the operas &#34;Sadko&#34; &#40;1898&#41; and &#34;Tale of Tsar Saltan&#34; &#40;1900--this includes &#34;Flight of the Bumble Bee&#34;&#41;; &#34;Capriccio espagnol&#34; &#40;1887&#41;; and the symphonic suite &#34;Sheherazade&#34; &#40;1888&#41;. Autograph Letter Signed &#34;<I>N.R. Korsakov</I>,&#34; 3 pp., 8½&#34; x 5¼&#34;, St. Petersburg, 3/16 April 1906 &#40;reflecting dates of the new and old calender&#41;. Excellent condition; with English and French translations. To Russian-French journalist and translator Michail Osipovitc Askinazi, who used the pseudonym of Michel Delines, referring to various operas and discussing their translation, including &#34;Boris Godonov,&#34; an opera by Mussorgsky. Delines would subsequently tranlate Tschaikovsky&#39;s &#34;Eugene Onegin&#34; and Rimsky-Korsakov&#39;s &#34;Sadko.&#34; <BR><BR>In part: &#34;<I>The 3, 4, and 7 settings were received by me and…submitted…to Mr. Stassow for examination….you are already in possession of his remarks relative to the Book of the Dove….The translation will be printed in &#34;Klavjierauszug&#34; orchestra partition and parts of choir. To the concert bureaux that may want to have performed something of &#34;Sadko,&#34; we shall forward the complete material of the opera in location, which would not be costly….To send you the sum of 500 Francs - I shall speak to the Committee….You have probably already received &#34;Kaschtzei.&#34; Gusslar…I find more accurate than Guzlar…As for me I find Gouslar still preferable…We both are Russians, let us teach Frenchmen what is Russian…They will be grateful to us one day. I shall await the translation of the 5th and 6th settings….I am very much interested in the fate of &#34;Boris Godounow.&#34; I know you had made a translation of it. I also heard that translation was lost somewhere….To whom does the translation rightfully belong?….I shall forward to you the 3, 4, and 7 as soon as Mr. Stassow has finished. Why does Mr. Marti keep with him settings 5 and 6 now that he no longer needs them</I>?….&#34; <BR>Estimated Value &#36;2,500-3,500. <BR><BR>Our item number 109999<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://64.60.141.195/photos/40jpegs/109999.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>