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Autograph ms. for an Allegretto for string quartet

Autograph manuscript for the Allegretto for string quartet in B minor composed in Vienna for visiting Englishman Richard Ford on Nov. 28, 1817. 1 p. (paginated “3” by the composer), oblong folio (ca. 24 x 30.5 cms), written on a single bifolium with sixteen staves per page, with fleur-de-lys watermark and the letters “WELHARTIZ,” stitching hole, some dust staining and creasing folds, small ink blot, traces of mount
Item Information
Material Type
Autograph ms.
Record Number
Am12
Works
Allegretto for string quartet
Previous Owners
Richard Ford
Provenance
Richard Ford; Molesworth St. Aubyn of Pencarrow, Cornwall
Catalog Concordance
Previously uncataloged and unknown work
Auction Information
Auction House
Sotheby's (London)
Lot Number
189
Bibliographical Reference
Barry Cooper, “The newly discovered quartet movement by Beethoven,BJ 15/1 (Summer 2000): 19-24. Published as: Allegretto in h-Moll / Allegretto in B minor. Cologny: Fondation Martin Bodmer; Munich: K.G. Sauer, 2001.
Date of Sale
12/8/1999
Seller
Molesworth St. Aubyn family
Sold to
Institution outside U.S.
Pricing Information
Estimate Price
150,000-200,000 GBP
Sale Price
166500 GBP
Sale Price in U.S Currency
$290900.00
Hammer Price
144783 GBP