BELLINI VINCENZO: (1801-1835) Italian Composer. A leading figure of Bel Canto and a very influential...

BELLINI VINCENZO: (1801-1835) Italian Composer. A leading figure of Bel Canto and a very influential and admired figure by other composers. Bellini died at the very early age of 33. An extremely rare Autograph Musical Quotation by Bellini, six pages, oblong 13 x 9 musical score. Bellini has penned over seventy bars, with multiple annotations, corrections, tempos, erasures, amendments and lengthy voice texts in Italian. The composer´s manuscript draft score corresponds to his opera Il Pirata (1827), second act, with text in his hand `Tu ve-drai la sventurata che di pianto ogget-to io re-si le di-rai che s´io l´offe-si pur la seppi Forse un di con me placate, alze-ra per me preghiera, e verra pietosa será. Sul mio sasso a la-gri-mar sul mio sas-so Ah non fia sempre odia-ta la mia memoria io spero se fui spietato e fie-ro fui sven-tu-ra-to ancor. E parlera la tomba..´ Several words are different to the definitive libretto published. At the base of the third page bearing a written and signed contemporary annotation in Italian, stating `Original of Sign. Vincenzo Bellini, from Pirata, Col sorriso d´innocenza´ signed by his brother Carmelo Bellini. An exceptional historical musical quotation. Overall age wear, small creasing and extremely small holes not affecting the musical notes and texts, with one corner page with small professional repair, otherwise G £5000-8000