BRITTEN (BENJAMIN) Autograph musical quotation Signed:comprising the opening bar of the "Prologue" to Peter Grimes, 1947
BRITTEN (BENJAMIN)
Autograph musical quotation signed ("Benjamin Britten"): comprising the opening bar of the "Prologue" to Peter Grimes, dated Copenhagen, 1947, turquoise ink, unobtrusive paper thinning at corners where previously mounted, vertical fold at centre, 114 x 170mm., 1947
Sold for £750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Britten's ground-breaking opera had been first performed in 1945. Britten gave a recital in Copenhagen in February 1947, and Covent Garden saw a revival of the opera that November.

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