Autograph musical quotation from the composer's Sixth Symphony, signed [in Cyrillic] "D Shostakovich

3 measures of the theme from the first movement, marked
signed

by SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri 1906-1975
3 measures of the theme from the first movement, marked "Moderato" at head. Notated in blue ink on letterhead of the Hotel Victoria in Rome, with their logo in blue to upper left corner. Quarto (190 x 175 mm).

With an autograph inscription in Cyrillic to Joseph Nicolas ("To Zhosefu Niklasu with best wishes from D. Shostakovich") dated 17 May 1958, Rome below quotation.

Slightly creased at folds. "Shostakovich’s most significant work from these times [1939-1941] was the Sixth Symphony, composed between April and October 1939. This work disappointed those who were expecting something on the lines of the Fifth, but its bizarre succession (truncated)
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