ID 1349701
Lot 36 | Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Autograph manuscript, Fugue in F minor, [Paris, 1883]
Title ('Fugue' in blue crayon), notated in black ink on five systems of four staves, a few pencil markings by another hand, five pages, 350 x 270mm, pp.1-4 on the facing inner pages of bifolia, the paper by Lard, rue Feydeau, Paris. Stitched in a modern leather-backed binding.
A prize composition for the 1883 Prix de Rome. The fugue is on a theme by Massenet: it was submitted for the preliminary 'concours d'essai' of the Prix de Rome. The pencil annotations may be by Debussy's composition teacher, Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892). This was Debussy's second attempt at the Prix de Rome, which he was to win in the following year with L'Enfant Prodigue.
| Artist: | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts |
| Artist: | Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts |
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