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The full scores of three compositions (sextets and septets): "La Notte", "La Preghiera", and "La Caccia"

Rossini, Gioachino, Italian composer (1792-1868). Autograph musical manuscript signed and signed portrait.

N. p., ca. 1861.

Oblong octavo manuscript on laid paper, ruled with staves throughout. 55 pp. on 30 ff.

Fifty-five pages, signed by Rossini on the first page, containing the full scores of three compositions (sextets and septets): "La Notte", "La Preghiera", and "La Caccia", written ca. 1813.

Bound with pale green silk ribbons, with old stamps on otherwise blank front cover sheet, and a lengthy note of authenticity by a Belgian autograph expert, dated 1904, with his stamp; housed in a custom-made silk-lined tooled and gilt-leather box, mounted with an inscribed carte-de-visite of the Maestro, dated 1861; manuscript with some finger smudges, carte-de-visite with some surface damage, box slightly warped, surface wear; the manuscript: 127:190 mm.