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Superb, extensive AMQS on an off-white 10 x 7.25 musically lined sheet, boldly titled and signed at the conclusion in ink, "Carmen Basiliense, (Cantata Academica), Benjamin Britten." Britten pens six full bars from the 1959 work, identifying the dual lines as "Soprano solo" and "Coro (Ten Bass)." In fine condition.
Cantata academica, Carmen basiliense, Op. 62, is a 1959 cantata composed by Benjamin Britten to a Latin text, commissioned for the 500th anniversary of the University of Basel. The text, compiled by Bernhard Wyss, is based on the charter of the university as well as older Latin orations praising Basel; writing to Wyss, Britten noted that it was his intention to be deliberately 'clever' with the piece, filling it with 'academic devices for the edification of the performers.' A long and magnificent autograph musical quote by Britten—one of the finest we have offered.
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