Auction 09 – Autumn Voices: Autographs, Music, Literature & Art from L’Autographe Auction
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Description
Auction 09 — Autumn Voices
Autographs, Music, Literature & Art from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
This autumn sale brings together an exceptionally varied selection of autograph letters, musical manuscripts, literary documents, signed photographs and personal memorabilia, offering intimate encounters with some of the defining figures of European and American culture.
Musical Highlights include Gaetano Donizetti’s autograph composing manuscript for Sancia di Castiglia (15 pp.), an extensive Ferruccio Busoni correspondence with Edith Andreae (30 letters, 1910–1924), Robert Schumann’s important 1846 letter to Kistner, Gioachino Rossini’s substantial 1841 letter to Donizetti during Stabat Mater preparation, a major Hector Berlioz letter after Roméo et Juliette, an Alban Berg twelve-tone musical quotation, and three Verdi letters.
Literature features a moving Stefan Zweig letter to Toscanini proposing a visit to Freud (1939), deeply personal Monti–Manzoni and Alfieri letters, an extensive Georges Simenon collection (letters, signed photographs, and two inscribed pipes), and autograph material by Proust, Wodehouse, Amis, Miller, Maugham and Achebe.
Art & Science includes an exceptional Manet letter referencing a visit by the young Gauguin, a remarkable Toulouse-Lautrec letter written at age fifteen, a signed Picasso photograph, and three early Enrico Fermi documents. The sale is completed by signed jazz material from Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan.
London, 12 October 2026 at 2:00 PM BST.
Catalog Lots
98 lots in Auction 09 – Autumn Voices: Autographs, Music, Literature & Art from L’Autographe Auction.
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Lot 1
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - W. H. AUDEN (1907–1973), CHESTER KALLMAN (1921–1975) AND HANS WERNER HENZE (1926–2012) - Signed Programme for Elegy for Young Lovers, Glyndebourne, 1962
£250 Bid → -
Lot 2
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI (1920–1995) - Autograph Note Signed with Musical Quotation
£700 Bid → -
Lot 3
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - ALBAN BERG (1885–1935) - Autograph Musical Fragment
£4,500 Bid → -
Lot 4
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - COUNT BASIE (1904–1984) - Inscribed and Signed Photograph and Autograph Note Signed
£200 Bid → -
Lot 5
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803–1869) - Important Autograph Letter Signed
£1,500 Bid → -
Lot 6
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - EUGENE BERMAN (1899–1972) - Autograph Letter Signed to Adriana Panni
£200 Bid → -
Lot 7
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - GIOVANNI BOTTESINI (1821–1889) - AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL FRAGMENT
£500 Bid → -
Lot 8
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866–1924) - Important archive of 24 autograph letters signed
£12,000 Bid → -
Lot 9
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866–1924) - Important Group of Three Autograph
£800 Bid → -
Lot 10
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866–1924) - An unusually personal autograph letter
£600 Bid → -
Lot 11
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866–1924) - Autograph Letter Signed
£200 Bid → -
Lot 12
[MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS] - FERRUCCIO BUSONI (1866–1924) - Important autograph letter signed to Isidore Philipp
£300 Bid →
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When and where was the Auction 09 – Autumn Voices: Autographs, Music, Literature & Art from L’Autographe Auction?
Auction 09 – Autumn Voices: Autographs, Music, Literature & Art from L’Autographe Auction was held on Mon, 12 Oct 2026 · 2:00 pm (BST) in London, UK by L’Autographe Auctions.
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