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BEACH, Mrs. H.H.A.- SPc of the American composer/pianist. She toured widely as a pianist before her marriage and after her husband's death and composed over 80 compositions including
many large choral pieces and works for specific occasions as well as songs eg "Ecstasy"
BERNSTEIN, Leonard- SP 4 x 6" photo a very moody shot of the genius
BOITO, Arrigo - AMusQS from his opera Mefistofole on a 4 x 7" AL with unsigned photo of the librettist (Otello, Falstaff) and composer
BOND, Carrie Jacobs- SP 4 x 6" bust portrait of the American song composer- "I Love You Truly" is still a great favorite
BUSONI, Ferruccio-big bold signature July 1912 on matt for pc size program photo (part of the Queen's Hall, London pro-gram is visible on the back-Busoni both con-ducted and played the
piano. Overall 6 x 7" Attractive
CASTRO, Juan Jose- SP 4 x 6" portrait by Wilenski BA of the Argentine composer /con-ductor Prolific his operas include "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" 1949 & "Bodas de Sangre" 1956 both after
Garcia Lorca. This photo d/s BA 1939
COPLAND, Aaron- SP 5 x 7 photo trimmed showing Copland stand-ing at the piano hand on Leonard Bernstein's shoulder going over the music. Great association. Signed by Copland 1989. UNUSUAL
de FALLA, Manuel- bold greeting and signa-ture laid down below color magazine photo of the Spanish composer at the piano. Overall 5 x 7"
DUKAS, Paul- AMusQS from "Ariane et Barbe Bleu" Act 1. Dukas's 1907 opera is being revived this fall by the New York City Opera. Uncommon
ELGAR, Sir Edward- big bold sig-nature 1922. Elgar interpreter Phyllis Lett signed above- easily separated
FRANCHETTI, Alberto- AMusQS on post-card photo of the Italian Jewish composer. The quote is from "Germania" his most successful opera created by Caruso in 1902
GILBERT, W.S.- ALS 2 pp "Cotterbrooke Northampton 16 July 1872 My Dear Sir, Exercise your discretion about Cheney but I think that if we open in N.Y. in October-November we shall hardly
be ready for Cheney before his date 14th Dec? I suppose you received the letter I sent to the ?..Cheney says his expenses are $500 but that's a lie. I hear from Wallack that he does not care
to share-however, the advantage of our names & Mr..? may influence him to do so. His expenses are $700. yours faithfully, WSGilbert"
GRETRY, Andre-Ernest-Modeste- ALS matted together with print of the very influential 18th century Belgian born French com-poser." Gretry a Mr.Denvoyer 2 tickets in the first loges for
his Zemira for today, 22 July 1812" This was the year before his death. Gretry wrote with great melodic and dra-matic expression, he was extremely prolific and he in fact laid the ground for
what became Opera-Comique. Among his works are "Zemire et Azor" which has recently been performed. Overall size 10 x 27" -Uncommon
JINDRICH, Jindrich- SPc of the Czech choral composer seated at the piano in his photo filled music room
LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold- AMusQS from the important, prolific Polish composer's Cello Concerto
MANA-ZUCCA- SPc portrait of the popular American composer (Augusta Zuckerman)/pianist - "I Love Life" certainly was a hit!
MASSENET, Jules-AMusQS from the love theme first heard at des Grieux's entrance in Act 1 of the composer's most popular opera "Manon"- s 1912 on a large sheet 9 x 12" together with
unsigned photo of the composer. Renee Fleming & Marcello Alvarez sing the opera this fall at the Met
MERECADANTE, Saverio, ALS 1 p in Italian, Paris April 1836 to music publisher Antonio PaciniŠ"Most esteemed -This morning I am busy and cannot take advantage of your kindness and that of
the poet- if we could do this another day I'd be most grate-fulŠ" nicely signed by the composer of more than 60 operas. "Elisa e Claudio" 1821 at la Scala was his first hit, others were "Il
Giuramento" his master-piece, "Il Bravo" and "Le due Illustri rivali" and 'Orazi e Curiazi" were other successes. His work had a big Italian revival during the 1970s
ORFF, Carl- Sp c size Fayer Wien portrait of the popular composer d/s 1955
PFITZNER, Hans- large signature -'Dr. Hans Pfitzner 19 Dec 1937' matted with a photo of the old geezer conducting. Overall 8 x 11"- The opera "Palestrina" is his masterpiece
POULENC, Francis + PRETRE, Georges & CARTERI, Rosanna- all sign program page for Poulenc's GLORIA (created by Pretre and Carteri) for the XX111 Festival International du tras-bourg 14-25
Juin 1961- pp.59 & 59 Pretre and Carteri under their photos, Poulenc over his name and Gloria en sol majeur. Full 128 pp book full programs and many many great photos
RACHMANINOFF, Sergei- SP 6 x 9" sepia portrait on program stock paper d/s S. Rachmaninoff. Decent contrast the end of his name.' .off' disappears. A bargain
RAVEL, Maurice- signs program for a concert of his music at the Conservatoire Americain July 17, 1922 at the Galeries des Colonnes Fountainbleu for students only! Assisting artists were
Madelaine Grey, Robert Casadesus & Dijna Ostrowska (harp) among others
ROREM Ned- SP 8 x 10" photo by F(red) Plaut c 1980 of the dean of American composers. d/s "To my dear friend Gerrie (Feder) with pleasure (and pain) forever from Ned (Rorem) August
'96" - Very nice example
SCHONBERG, Arnold- TLS in German on his stationery "Arnold Schoenberg, Modling near Wien, November 1932 to Mrs. James Frances Cook, Editor of 'The Etude"Š..Dear Sir, On June 30th you
acknowledged receipt of a small manuscript which I donated to the Jubilee Edition of your magazine. I mentioned several requests and stipulated the condition to publish an 'unchanged reprint."
Finally I asked for a proof which in Europe is sent automatically, even when paid a fee. You have not ful-filled my wishes! Should I regret that I fulfilled yours? Very truly yours, Arnold
Schoenberg" Prickly letter from the noted composer who later settled in California
SCHRECKER, Franz- SPc of the German composer whose opera "Die Gezeichtneten" had a big revival at the Salzburg Festival this summer, the latest in a great series of revivals of his works
SCOTTO, Vincent- SPc French composer or chansonier. He composed the musiuc for over 50 films, countless reviews for all the great stars from the 1920s onwards including Baker, Mistiungette etc. UNCOMMON
SONDHEIM, Stephen- SP 8 x 11" charm-ing informal color photo from Time magazine Dec 7,1987 d/s on his music.
VARESE, Edgard- postcard with signed greetings from the French/American composer. "To Mr.Dan Montemarano with good wishes Edgard Varese New York Jan 63"
VERDI, Giuseppe- closing 2 lines of a letter "...addio G. Verdi 37 rue Billout Paris" paper is 4 x 5" together with unsigned photo of the great composer. Perfect for framing
WAGNER, Richard- signed receipt from Carl Voltz Wiesbaden signed "Bayreuth 15 Juli 1877 Richard Wagner" - 4 x 10" - together with CdV photo of the great composer
WALTON Sir William- ALS short letter from the popular English compos-er." Ashby St. Ledger Rugby Dear, Mr. Wynn (BBC), I shall be free to conduct on Jan 20th.What is the program? Yours
sincerely, William Walton"
ZEMLINSKY, Alexander- SP on large program for 1937 Prague concert of music by Bach, Schumann- CASALS was soloist for the cello concerto AND there is a large signed photo of him too &
Mahler 's 4th Symphony soloist Milada Formanova who also signed. 7 1/2x 10" with 2 signed photos ZEMLINSKY & CASALS| Abbreviations | |
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SP - Signed Photo AL - Album Leaf AS - Autograph Sentiment PCC - Printed Calling Cards ALS - Autographed Letter Signed D/S - Dedicated & Signed |
ANS - Autographed, Note, Signed SPc - Signed Postcard AMusQS - Autographed Musical Quote Signed TLS - Letter signed by person described LS - Letter signed by person described, written by another |
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