Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI ANDREEVICH. 1844-1908. Autograph Musical Manuscript, image 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI ANDREEVICH. 1844-1908. Autograph Musical Manuscript, image 2
Lot 3172

5 December 2012, 10:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$6,250 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAI ANDREEVICH. 1844-1908.

Autograph Musical Manuscript, 2 p recto and verso, oblong folio, being the piano arrangement of two sections from "Play and Dance of the Stars" in Part 6 of the opera Noch pered Rozhdestvom [Christmas Eve], ink with some emendations in pencil and blue crayon on heavy paper. Overall discoloring.
Provenance: gift from Vasilli Vasilevich Yastrebtsov to Gerda Frishfield.

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote both the libretto and music for the opera Noch pered Rozhdestvom, based on a short story by Gogol. It was first produced in St. Petersburg in 1895. Tchaikovsky wrote an opera based on the same story. The manuscript comprises the composer's piano arrangements of the last twelve bars of the Mazurka and the first four bars of the trio on the recto as well as the first twenty-four bars of the March of the Comets, including the first eight bars of the violin solo. Yatrebtsov was Rimsky-Korsakov's friend and biographer. Included with the manuscript is the original green cardboard backing when it was framed and on which Yastrebtsov has written: "To the nicest and most charming Gerda Frishfield, as a sign of my endless affection to her, and her talent. Sincerely committed, her dedicated admirer. V. Yastrebtsоv. February 24, 1925."

Additional information

Bid now on these items

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]

SUFFRAGETTE INSIGNIA - SPEAKER Speaker's ribbon for the Great 'Women's Sunday' Demonstration in Hyde Park, 21 June 1908