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live December 2 | 11:00 AM
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6 - Béla BARTOK (1881–1945).

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€2,000 - 3,000

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31.2%

Béla BARTOK (1881–1945). Autograph MUSIC MANUSCRIPT, Barcarolla, [1922]; 1 page, in-12 format (14 x 9 cm), on a blank postcard with an autograph address on the back to Adila ARANYI in Budapest, and a stamp. Transcription for violin of the cello solo part from Variation VIII of Richard STRAUSS’s *Don Quixote*, consisting of 55 measures. It was sent to her friend, the Hungarian violinist Adila ARANYI (1886–1962), Mrs. Alexander Fachiri. [A grandniece of Joseph Joachim, a student of Jenő Hubay, and an excellent violinist, she was the sister of Jelly d’Aranyi, the violinist to whom Bartók dedicated his two Sonatas for Violin and Piano, and to whom Maurice Ravel dedicated his famous *Tzigane*.]

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Books & Manuscripts
Wednesday, December 2
11:00 AM
164 bis, avenue Charles-de-Gaulle
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

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