Autograph musical quotation signed Ch. Gounod from the composer's opera, Faust
$1,350 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians
8 measures in treble clef, notated in black ink on a portion of a 14-stave rastrum-ruled album leaf, 177 x 233 mm. With text in French in Gounod's hand commencing Il etait un Roi du Thulé, Marguerite's melancholy aria from Act III. Identified in the composer's hand at foot: Ballade du Roi de Thulé ... à Monsieur Lebert. Ch. Gounod and dated 26 August 18 69.Slightly faded; browned; creased at central vertical fold; portions of leaf
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