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Lot 9 · Fine Autograph Music: the Property of Helmut Nanz and Family

letter signed ("votre tres humble et tres obeisant serviteur chevalier gluck[paraph]") to valadier, in french, declining to set the latter's libretto for the opera "cora"

Christoph Willibald Gluck

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Estimate
£8,000–£12,000 hammer ≈ $10,760–$16,140
Result
Performance
Sale
Sotheby's — Fine Autograph Music: the Property of Helmut Nanz and Family, London · 22 May 2018
Record ID
TB-2026-4663916
Record
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Christoph Willibald Gluck, letter signed ("votre tres humble et tres obeisant serviteur chevalier gluck[paraph]") to valadier, in french, declining to set the latter's libretto for the opera "cora". Sotheby's, 22 May 2018, lot 9. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4663916.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck, letter signed ("votre tres humble et tres obeisant serviteur chevalier gluck[paraph]") to valadier, in french, declining to set the latter's libretto for the opera "cora". Sotheby's, 22 May 2018, lot 9. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4663916.

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