Lot 52
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Austrian composer, prolific in spite of his death at the age of 31. Autograph manuscript of the two songs "Minnelied," D. 429 ("Holder klingt der Vogelsang"), and "Die frühe Liebe," D.430 ("Schon im bunten Knabenkleide"), unsigned. A working manuscript, "Minnelied" notated in brown ink on four and five systems per page, of three staves each, "Die frühe Liebe" on two-stave systems, extended into the margin by the composer, with autograph corrections and alterations to the music and to the words, with the three remaining verses of the second song written out by the composer beneath the staves; being the complete first drafts of the settings of two poems by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, 2 pages, large 4to 12-stave paper, inscribed by the publisher C.A. Spina at the head of each song ("nicht gest[ochen]" and numbered in red crayon by Anton Diabelli, with extensive musicological notes by the scholar Johannes Wolf, in a blue cloth folder, [Vienna], May 1816. Minor tears, slightly affecting the text in the margins; a few marks and stains.
These songs were first published in the old "Complete Edition" of Schubert's works in 1885.
The present leaf (the two pages numbered "36" and "37" by Wolf), originally formed the beginning of a longer manuscript containing the songs "Seligkeit," "Blumenlied," "Klage," "Der Leidende," and a Canon, D. 371 and 431-433, which sold at Sotheby's, London, on Dec. 6, 1991, lot 20.
Estimated Value $50,000 - 60,000.
Sotheby's, London, May 25, 2001, lot 187.
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| Realized $40,800 |
