On 27 November, an extraordinary hoard of
fin de siècle music goes on sale at Sotheby's in London. The Music, Continental Books & Manuscripts sale, which starts at 10.30am, features a number of items from the estate of Franz Schreker. They include the autograph manuscript of Schreker's 1932–3 melodrama
Das Weib des Intaphernes; a marked-up copy of the full score
Gurrelieder, probably used by Schreker when he conducted performances in the 1920s – he directed the premiere in 1913; the librettos for Schoenberg's
Die glückliche Hand,
Totentanz der Prinzipien,
Requiem and
Die Jakobsleiter, dedicated by Schoenberg to Schreker; proof copies of Universal Edition's scores of Schreker's
Der ferne Klang,
Die Gezeichneten and
Der Schatzgräber, all annotated by the composer; Webern's autograph of
Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen;
and a copy of
Wozzeck, dedicated by Berg to Schreker. All were given to the current owner by Maria Schreker, the composer's widow (pictured here with her husband). Maria and the present owner recovered Schreker's scores from Berlin after the end of World War II.
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