Riccardo Nobili - Musicale Autografo - Riccardo Nobili (1859-1939) & Cale Young Rice - "Sufficings" - Inizio '900p - 1905

Rare and Fascinating Autograph Musical Manuscript from Antiquity
Title of the composition: Sufficings
Author of the Text: Cale Young Rice (1872–1943)
Music and Autograph Score: Riccardo Nobili (Florence, 1859 – Venice, 1939)
Era: Early 20th Century (circa 1900–1920)
Technique: Ink on antique paper, with corrections and staves applied by the author (working manuscript).
DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Up for auction an exceptional and rare period musical manuscript that testifies to the interesting and sophisticated cultural cross-pollination between the great American poetry of the early 1900s and Italian artistic eclecticism.
The score, entirely handwritten, musicalizes the famous poetry Sufficings by the American playwright and poet Cale Young Rice. The musical composition bears the autograph signature at the top right: "Music by Riccardo Nobili".
Riccardo Nobili (1859–1939) was a figure of extraordinary significance in the cultural panorama straddling the 19th and 20th centuries. A highly regarded painter (a pupil of Telemaco Signorini at the Scuola del Nudo in Florence and a frequenter of the Académie Julian in Paris), he was also a writer, art critic, antiquarian, and composer. This manuscript reveals his deep musical talent and refined knowledge of Anglo-Saxon literature.
CHARACTERISTICS AND CONDITION
Working Manuscript: The sheet retains a unique historical and collecting value precisely due to the presence of original era variants and corrections applied with overlays of paper fragments on which the composer rewrote and perfected harmonic and piano accompaniment passages.
Complete poetic text: Manually inscribed are Rice’s verses devoted to the duality between mind and soul, sun and moon, God and love.
Conditions: Very good for a study-era document. Paper with a fascinating natural patina of time, slight archival creases, and original ink stains from the writing desk that enhance its authenticity and workshop atmosphere.
A piece of great archival interest for collectors of old scores, autographs of 20th-century artists, music history, and crossovers between visual art and international poetry.