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Beethoven, Ludwig van FINE AUTOGRAPH LETTER ABOUT FIDELIO, SIGNED ("LUDWIG VAN BEETHOWEN") to Baron Peter von Braun, the manager of the Court Opera Houses in Vienna, about preparations for performing parts of Fidelio at Palais Lobkowitz, asking to have certain manuscript instrumental parts handed back to him from the theatre archives, so that he can have some corrections contained there copied into his full score, explaining that Prince Lobkowitz intends to have the opera performed and needs the music; Beethoven asks Braun to be so kind as to write a few words authorizing the Archives of the Theater auf der Wieden to let him have these parts: namely, the first flute part, the three trombones, and the four horns, adding that he is not feeling well, or else he would have come to visit him in person ...Ich bitte Sie...nur ein Paar Worte... worin sie mir die Erlaubniß ertheilen, daß ich folgende Stimmen: nemlich: flauto primo, die 3 posaunen, und die vier Horn-Stimmen von meinem oper der Theater-Kanzley von der Wieden kann holen laßen. Ich brauche diese Stimmen mir auf einen einzigen Tag, um diejenigen Kleinigkeiten für mich abschreiben zu laßen, welche sich des Raums wegen nicht in die partitur eintragen ließen zum Theil auch, weil fürst Lobkowitz einmal gedenkt die oper bey sich zu geben... at the foot of the first page, Beethoven again lists the parts he needs: "flauto primo, die drej Trombonen, die vier Horn-stimmen" 2 pages, 4to (22.2 x 18.8cm), a bifolio, watermark ("C. & I. Honig"), written and signed in gothic script, integral autograph address-panel, annotated at the end by Braun "Ist auszufolgen Br." [ie, "to be delivered"], and by another hand on the address-leaf "Fidelio", note of receipt ("den 5te May 1806 verabfolgt"), 5 May 1806, remains of red seal with Beethoven's monogram, [Vienna, on or just before 5 May 1806], 2 small seal-tears and old repair to address leaf