Lot 125: SCHUBERT, FRANZ.

AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE "VARIATIONS ON A FRENCH SONG", FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS, D.624

AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF THE "VARIATIONS ON A FRENCH SONG", FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS, D.624

being part of the eighth and final variation ["Più mosso, Tempo di Marcia"], with some differences from the published version, written in brown-black ink on three systems per page, each of four staves, with some alterations and corrections, comprising some thirty bars music in all

2 pages, oblong 4to (24.5 x 31cms), 12-stave paper, annotated by Nottebohm: "Autograph von Frz.Schubert Gehört zu einer Vorarbeit zu den 4händigen Variationen Op.10 letzte Variation) (G.Nottebohm)", [Vienna, September 1818]

NOTE

Schubert's Variationen über ein französisches Lied Op.10, were published by Cappi & Diabelli in 1822, with a dedication to Beethoven. The text of this working draft diverges from the published version, in the fourth and tenth bars of the first piano part and in the twenty-fifth & twenty-sixth bar of the second piano part.

The autograph manuscript was dispersed, with some leaves being lost: others now survive at the Sibley Music Library in Rochester, the Bibliotheque nationale, the Pushkin House in Leningrad, and elsewhere.