MENUHIN, Yehudi (1916-1999)

MENUHIN, Yehudi (1916-1999)
Autograph music manuscript signed twice, a working score for his cadenza for Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto (K. 218), n.p. [Los Gatos], 1937.
3 pages, 315 x 241mm, bifolium, Monarch Brand paper by Carl Fischer of New York, notated on 12 staves per page, titled (‘Cadenza for the 1st mouve [sic] of the 4th Concerto of Mozart’) and signed (‘Yehudi Menuhin’) in pencil, liberal autograph cancellations, emendations and additions also in pencil, one emendation in blank ink, later autograph annotation in pen (‘I wrote these cadenzas in 1937. They were published shortly after. Yehudi Menuhin London Oct 1966’). Provenance: Sotheby’s, 7 December 2004, lot 83.

A testament to the extraordinary technical ability of the virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin and to the maturity and depth of his musical understanding at the age of 21: his working manuscript for a demanding cadenza for Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto. Following a world tour in 1935, Menuhin spent an 18-month sabbatical at the family’s Californian home in Los Gatos.

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