Beschreibung:

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Collection of autograph music manuscripts relating to his operas and instrumental works, notated in pencil and black or blue ink, comprising working manuscripts and sketches, mostly unbound
around 150 pages in all, various sizes, some browning and creasing, including autograph manuscripts of:
Irene. Autograph short-score sketches, 20 pages, in pencil and ink, unbound, oblong 4to, c.1895-1896
Ephemeros. Assorted sketches, 8 pages, unbound, no date
Sonata movement in G minor (fragment), inscribed and signed (“Ermanno Wolf…alla Signora Lili Graif [?]”), 2 pages, folio, Munich, 28 June 1892, torn and stained
[VI] Phantasiestücke for piano, signed (“Ermanno Wolf Ferrari”), unpublished (?), 12 pages, folio, original cloth-backed wrappers, Munich, November 1894
Piano Trio in F sharp minor, op.7, in three movements, signed (“Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Monaco Agosto 1900”), 26 pages, oblong 4to, Munich, 1900
Lied vom Winde, signed (“E Wolf Ferrari 28 Ott. 1900 München”), 7 pages, 4to, Munich, 1900
Introduzione e balletto for violin and violoncello, op.34. Autograph pencil drafts and sketches, 5, 13 and 1 pages, initialled on the title (“E.W.F.”), 1943?, loose in original inscribed green wrappers Duo in G minor for violin and violoncello, op.33, signed (“E. Wolf-Ferrari”), autograph parts, 8 and 8 pages, folio, 1946 or later
together with: AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK CONTAINING APPARENTLY WOLF-FERRARI'S EARLIEST ATTEMPTS AT COMPOSITION, including a 36-bar piano four-hand fragment in C, written on hand-drawn staves, small 4to, 6 pages of music, original violet wrappers covered in paper containing drawings and other entries by Wolf-Ferrari, c.1886(?); a manuscript music notebook, in various hands, including that of Wolf-Ferrari, 34 pages, plus blanks, paper label to upper cover (“…Kilian”), blue wrappers, no date; a scribal manuscript full score of Act 1 of the unperformed opera Irene, 151 pages, large folio, original cloth boards, paper label of ‘Premiata Calcografia e Copisteria di R. Fantuzzi…Milano’ to upper cover, c.late 1890s; a scribal manuscript of the Piano Trio in D, op.5, containing some apparently autograph annotations in pencil, 88 pages, original quarter cloth over blue boards, paper label of ‘Premiata Calcografia e Copisteria di R. Fantuzzi…Milano’ to upper cover, before 1898, some damp-staining; a scribal manuscript full score of Act 2 of the three-act opera Cenerentola, with performance markings in blue crayon, 228 pages, folio, stamps of the Brünn Stadttheater and ‘Allgemeine Wr. Copiatur…Carl Burian’ to title, original leather backed cloth boards, after 1900, two leaves lacking after p.202 and following leaf torn with loss, some leaves containing cut passages folded in half; the Stichvorlage photocopy of the autograph of the Sonata in F for two violins and piano, op.25, marked up by and for the printer, 37 pages, folio, unbound, 1943, with a negative print of the same; the autograph corrected proofs of the Sonatinas for piano op.29 nos.2 and 3, signed, 13 and 13 pages, folio, loose in wrappers, 1944; printed editions of Talitha Kumi!, op.3, and Die Passion, op.21, arranged for voice and piano; an autograph list of works (opp.25-35), 1 page, on a leaf of manuscript paper, cut down from a larger leaf, no date; and a pocket score of Ennio Porrino’s symphonic poem Sardegna, signed and inscribed by the composer to Wolf-Ferrari (“Al M.o Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in omaggio al nostro….accordo perfetto! Ennio Porrino…marzo 1938…”), 44 pages, publisher’s printed wrappers
An important collection of early and late autograph music manuscripts, which forms a pendant to the collection of Wolf-Ferrari autographs sold in these rooms on 8 December 2000 (lot 265). See also preceding lot.