Christies: The Richard Wagner Collection formed by The Honourable Mrs. Mary Burrell. The Property of The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia., RWCollection1978yr,

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 27, 1978 - October 27, 1978
Page Size: 139 items in 2 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
WAGNER, RICHARD [DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER. SENTA'S BALLAD]. Full score, beginning 11 bars before the ballad, and ending with Erik's exclamation. Senta!

[1841]

USD 60,008,000.00 - 35,200.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER. SENTA'S BALLAD]. Musical composition sketches of fragments of Senta's ballad in act 2.

[1840?]

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
WAGNER, RICHARD AUTOGRAPH NOTEBOOK in pencil, containing a rough sketch of Act III of his Drama "MANFRED [DIE SARAZENIN]", 15 lines; on another page literary references to the same drama, 7 lines; a list of his friends (some crossed out); other addresses mainly in Paris [Paris]

[ca. 1842]

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 1,320.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [TANNHAUSER], DER VENUSBERG. Schreckenstein bei Aussig

28. Juni 1842 --- Teplitz den 6. Juli, 1842, signed

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 44,000.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [TANNHAUSER UND DER SANGERIEG AUF WARTBURG]

November 1843--April 1847

USD 200,000.00 - 250,000.00 242,000.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [TANNHAUSER UND DER SANGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG. OVERTURE] 'Bassposaune und Ophycleide part, headed Ouverture

[1845?]

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 2,640.00
GLUCK, CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD IPHIGENIE EN AULIDE, Paris Le Marchand, 1774. Full score of RICHARD WAGNER'S ADAPTATION as performed at Dresden

22 February 1847

USD 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 110,000.00
WAGNER, RICHARD LOHENGRIN, ROMANTISCHE OPER IN 3 AKTEN, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT; AUTOGRAPH STAGE INSTRUCTIONS; PRINTED TEXT; PROLOGUE BY F. DINGELSTEDT.

[1845?--1850]

USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 104,500.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [LOHENGRIN, VORSPIEL.] Fragment of the first violin part.

[1848?]

USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,045.00
[WAGNER, RICHARD] DIE NOTH.

30 March 1849

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 9,680.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG] Full score of a concert-ending to Walther's song, 'Fanget an! so rief der Lenz,' dated and signed ‘Munchen, R W’

6 Juli 1865

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 30,800.00
WAGNER, RICHARD [KRAFT LIEDCHEN]

[April 22, 1871]

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 1,430.00
DONIZETTI, GAETANO La Favorite, opera en 4 actes, partition pour piano seul arrangee par R. Wagner, 4me edition. Paris: A. Grus

[ca. 1843]

USD 150.00 - 250.00 264.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Gruss seiner Treuen an Friedrich August den Geliebten bei einer Zuruckkunft aus England, Dresden: C. F. Meser

[1844]

USD 200.00 - 300.00 209.00
[WAGNER, RICHARD] Wie verhalten sich republikanische Bestrebungen dem Konigthume gegenuber? Extra Beilage zu No. 191 des Dresdner Anzeiger und Tageblatts

15. Juli, 1848

USD 200.00 - 250.00 825.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Zu einer Vorlesung meiner kurzlich vollendeten dramatischen Dichtung 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' . . . an vier auf einander folgenden Abenden . . . im unteren Saale des . . . Hotel de Baur, vorzutragen gedenke, lade ich Sie . . .. Zurich

12 Februar, 1853

USD 100.00 - 150.00 1,650.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Overture zu Tannhauser, [Zurich 1853] Programm zu den Musikauffuhrungen am 18., 20. und 22. Mai 1853 in Zurich [Zurich]

[1853]

USD 100.00 - 150.00 660.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Tannhauser, opera en trois actes, represente pour la premiere fois a Paris . . . Paris: a la Librairie Theatrale, 1861, 55pp, half title, original printed wrappers as issued, spine torn---CHAMPFLEURY. Richard Wagner, Paris 1860, 16pp, original printed wra Paris

1860

USD 40.00 - 60.00 308.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Funf Gedichte [von Mathilde Wesendonck] fur eine Frauenstimme mit Pianoforte-Begleitung in Musik gesetzt Mainz: B. Schott Sohne

[1862]

USD 300.00 - 500.00 5,060.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Das Judenthum in der Musik Leipzig: J. J. Weber

1869

USD 50.00 - 80.00 330.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Rienzi, grande opera tragica in cinque atti, traduzione italiana di Arrigo Boito, canto in chiave di sol Milano: F. Lucca

[1870?]

USD 400.00 - 500.00 935.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Kaiser-Marsch fur grosses Fest Orchester, Klavier-Auszug. Leipzig & Berlin: C. F. Peters

[1871]

USD 400.00 - 500.00 1,045.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Gotterdammerung, Vollstandiger Klavierauszug von Karl Klindworth. Mainz: bei B. Schott's Sohnen

[1875]

USD 200.00 - 250.00 462.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Eine Sonate fur das Album der Frau M. W. componiert im Jahre 1853. Mainz: B. Schott Sohne

[1878]

USD 100.00 - 150.00 550.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Parsifal, ein Buhnenweihfestspiel, vom Orchestra fur das Klavier ubertragen von Joseph Rubinstein. Mainz: Schott

[1882]

USD 300.00 - 400.00 660.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Mein Leben, Erster Theil [Zweiter Theil; Dritter Theil], Basel: G. A. Bonfantini

n.d. [1870--1875]

USD 9,000.00 - 11,000.00 23,100.00
Venetian Gondola, miniature model, finely worked in silver filigree [15cm. long], PRESENTED BY RICHARD WAGNER TO HIS WIFE MINNA for her birthday in

1858

USD 400.00 - 500.00 1,100.00
[WAGNER, RICHARD] Ephemera of his wedding to Minna Planer. Konigsberg

24 November 1836

USD 50.00 - 80.00 308.00
Photograph of Minna Wagner and Natalie Planer, 1859, salt paper print with applied watercolor, 20 by 17cm, in oval wooden black and gilt frame --- Photograph of Minna taken by Natalie, Dresden 1851, 10 by 6cm --- Photograph of Minna [ca. 1850], salt print

USD 100.00 - 150.00 440.00
[WAGNER, RICHARD] Baton, of wood, used by the composer to conduct the private first rehearsal performance of the 'Grosser Festmarsch' at the Festspielhaus. Bayreuth

2 July, 1876

USD 100.00 - 150.00 1,045.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Portrait-Silhouette

[1835]

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,870.00
STOCKER-ESCHER, CLEMENTINE Portrait of Richard Wagner, sitting in a chair, with Lake Zurich in the background.

[ca. April 1853]

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 6,600.00
WAGNER, RICHARD Portrait photograph, glassplate positive, taken by Pierre Petit et Trinquart. Paris

1861

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,960.00
KIETZ, ERNST BENEDIKT Caricature of Richard Wagner, as a Turkish Vizier, wielding his baton, in turban, decorated with horse's tails, signed

1850

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 2,200.00
KIETZ, ERNST BENEDIKT Daguerrotype [made by Richebourg] of Portrait of Richard Wagner, painted Paris

1850

USD 150.00 - 200.00 495.00
KIETZ, ERNST BENEDIKT Caricature of Minna Wagner, holding 'Baby' Wagner [Paris]

[1841]

USD 200.00 - 250.00 308.00
KIETZ, GUSTAV Plaster medallion of Theodor Uhlig

[1853]

USD 50.00 - 60.00 176.00
PORTRAIT OF MINNA PLANER, later wife of Hofkapellmeister Richard Wagner.

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 14,300.00
PORTRAIT OF MISS MARY BANKS [Mrs. Burrell], only child of Sir John Banks K.C.B., M.D., 1st wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, afterwards Vth Baron Gwydyr.

USD 750.00 - 850.00 1,870.00
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