Autograph letter signed, including an autograph musical quotation signed.
Bergen, Norway, 29. VI. 1892.
8vo. 2 pages on bifolium.
€ 12.500,00
An appealingly pithy letter in English to an unknown recipient, with a musical quotation. The letter betrays a certain exasperation with his correspondent's questions: "I should think it quite impossible to answer your questions / 1) as I have no method at all when composing! / 2) as the art of composition is not at all to be learned and still - must be learned! / 3) as I have no particular favourite composer. All good composers are my favourites!' [...]".
The musical quotation comprises four bars from the violin sonata no. 2 in G (op. 13), on two staves.
Two larger tears rebacked. Provenance: Christie's, 26 June 1996, lot 257.
