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BRITTEN (BENJAMIN)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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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

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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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