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Schnittke, Alfred AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF "DREI GEDICHTE VON VIKTOR SCHNITTKE" (THREE POEMS BY VIKTOR SCHNITTKE) a working manuscript draft of the complete work, scored for tenor and piano, notated in pencil on up to seven systems of varying size per page, mostly of three staves, with autograph title ("3 Gedichte von Viktor Schnittke") and autograph movement numbers ("I...II...III"), the three poems commencing, respectively, with the words 'Wer Gedichte macht, ist ein einsamer Mann', 'Wenn er den feinsten Faden dehnt und dehnt' and 'Ich neige mich zum Bach', each movement dated at the end by the composer ("29.01.88...30.01.88...30.01.88"), the last two bars of the final poem written in the right-hand margin on a single hand-drawn stave, a few entries in the first poem in black ink, with a few deletions and corrections; page 3 of the manuscript being a rejected page from Schnittke's composing manuscript of his opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten (page 22, marked "S. 22"), notated in pencil on five three-stave systems and a single stave, the text beginning 'Erstlich, daß Faustus verspirchst [sic] und schwörst', the vocal parts marked "M[ephostophiles]." and "F[austus].", with the numbering "L 5/6" at the lower right-hand corner of the page 3 pages of music in all ("Drei Gedichte": 2 pages; Faustus fragment: 1 page), plus one blank, 4to (c.31 x 23.6cm), 18-stave paper, with a four-page reproduction of Schnittke's fair-copy manuscript of the work, [Hamburg], 29-30 January, 1988, central horizontal crease; together with: Schnittke, Viktor. Stimmen des Schweigens. Erzählungen und Gedichte, Moscow: Raduga-Verlag, 1992 (3)