1. BERLIN, Irving- the LEGENDARY Broadway composer of 21 musicals from "Anything Goes" to "Annie Get Your Gun" and over 1000 songs from "God Bless America," "Alexander's Ragtime Band" , "There's No Business Like Show Business" to "White Christmas" signs a check for $12 in 1925. Contemporary composer Jerome Kern said "He is American music". Together with photo. .................$275	2. BERNSTEIN, Leonard- nice large signature from Lenny on a 3 x 5" card together with a pc size photo for CBS. "West Side Story" is back on Broadway. .................$85	3. BOITO, Arrigo- SPc of the famed Italian librettist for Ponchielli ("La Gioconda") and Verdi ("Otello" & "Falstaff") and composer of "Mefistofole" and a long time leading figure on the 19th/early 20th century Italian opera scene. .................$750
4. BRUCH, Max- large signature on a 3.5 x 4.5" card with an image laid down on the verso. A Hiller pupil the prolific composer/conductor/teacher a member of the "Brahms camp" is best remembered for his "Violin Concerto No.1", "Concerto in A flat minor", "Scottish Fantasy for violin and Orchestra" and "Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra". .................$200	5. BUSONI, Ferruccio- SPc of the Italian composer/pianist seated in a library signed 1918. A child prodigy he met Liszt, Rubinstein and Brahms toured extensively started composing and taught in both Russia and the USA before moving to Berlin in 1894. He lived there except during WWI when he lived in Italy & Switzerland. Among his piano & composition pupils were Petri, Grainger, Weill, von Zadora, Gruenberg, Mitropolous, Ganz, among others. He arranged a lot of Bach's music for the piano and often used elements of other composers's music eg Liszt & Bizet etc. and wrote extremely difficult large scale piano works eg Piano Concerto. Since after World War 2 his operas have become increasingly visible "Arlecchino", "Turandot" and especially "Dr Faustus" have gained popularity. Some piano recordings survive. The signature and date 1918 are on the dark background but clear. .................$775	6. CAGE, John- a nice large greeting "Best wishes to you John Cage 2/14/87" on a 6 x 8" page with laid down photo of the laughing avant-garde American composer. He studied with Cowell and Schoenberg and was strongly influenced by Far Eastern cultures. Contemporary modern American dance owes much to him through his association with Merce Cunningham. Nice example. .................$175
7. CONVERSE, Frederick- AMusQS Adagio Aug 24/27 on the American composer's stationery. His lushly orchestrated music often compared to Richard Strauss, his opera "The Pipe of Desire" was the first American Opera to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera. Now he is best known for the Symphonic Poem "The Mystic Trumpet" based on Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." .................$125	8. DELIBES, Leo- A handwritten page of music for the Death of LAKME starting with..."tu m'a donne le plus doux reve que on puisse a voir...." until she dies. The lovely page is 9 1/2 x 12 1/2" and boldly dedicated "a Madame Fides Adler-Devries Homage de respectuese admiration Leo Delibes Juin 1888"- Adler-Devries was one of the foremost lyric coloraturas of her time. and sang Lakme. Together with image of Deilbes. .................$3,500	9. d'INDY, Vincent- SPc of the important French composer/teacher a pupil and Cesar Franck and strongly influenced by Germanic style he co founded the Paris Schola Cantorum in 1894. He taught there and at the Paris Conservatoire till his death in 1931. Among his pupils were Satie, Roussel, Albeniz, Honneger, Milhaud and Canteloube. His works are now seldom performed, an exception being the "Lied for Cello and Orchestra" which was recorded by Julian Lloyd Webber and Yan Pascal Tortelier but his influence has remained enormous. This photo was d/s Prague 1925. .................$375
10. EINEM, Gottfried von- Gottfried von- AMusQS from the Austrian composer's masterpiece opera "Der Besuch der Alten Dame" based on the Durrenmatt play THE VISIT. The title role is a tour de force for operatic singing actresses eg Ludwig (creator), Varnay, Olivero, Modl. .................$275	11. FLOTOW, Friedrich von– AMusQS 2 pages for "Indra" "Serendade" Act 2 d/s by the composer 1852 the year his "L'Esclave de Carmoens" was revised as "Indra" for Vienna's Karntetortheater in 1852 and then later revised twice again in 1878 "Zora l'Enchantresse" & "Alma l'Incantatrice". Fascinating document 4.75 x 10" together with image of Flotow. .................$1,500	12. FOSS, Lukas- the late German/American composer/pianist/conductor a longtime beloved figure on the American musical scene. .................$100
13. FRICKER, Peter Racine- AMusQS "Serenade N0.5 for Violin and Cello" on a 4 x 6" music paper. .................$150	14. FRICKER, Peter Racine- SP 5 x 7" of the English composer who settled in California. His music was more in the school of Schoenberg than fellow Englishmen like Holst & Elgar. He is descended from the great French playwright Racine. .................$100	15. GHEDINI, Giorgio Federico- SPc photo of he Italian composer/teacher who composed in the style of the Renaissance & Baroque and who transcribed much old music of Fresobaldi and others. His pupils included Abbado & Berio. .................$100
16. GRAINGER, Percy- pencil greeting of the Australian/American composer/pianist/conductor/eccentric laid down below a program photo on and 8 x 10" mount. His smash hit piano piece "Country Gardens" made him wealthy and he hated the piece! .................$75	17. GROFE, Ferde- SP 8 x 10" G. Maillard-Kesslere photo of the famed American jazz musician (pianist for Paul Whiteman), arranger (Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue") and composer - "Grand Canyon suite" is his most famous work amongst many. .................$200	18. GRUENBERG, Louis- AMusQS penned d/s 1933 by the Lithuanian/American composer from his landmark expressionistic opera "The Emperor Jones" based on the Eugene O'Neill play which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1933 with Lawrence Tibbett in the title role. A child piano prodigy Gruenberg was studying at 8 years of age with Adele Margulies at the National Conservatory in NYC then headed by Dvorak! He later studied with Busoni in Europe where he taught and toured as solo pianist and accompanist coming back to the US before WW1. After winning the Flagler Prize for "The Hill of Dreams" he composed more and played less. He was heavily influenced by jazz and ragtime. Heifetz commissioned a violin concerto from him and he also worked in film music. .................$300
19. (GRUENBERG)- TIBBETT, Lawrence- SP 8 x 10" photo in the title role of Gruenberg's "The Emperor Jones." .................$375	20. HADLEY, Henry- AMusQS from the opening bars of "North Earth South & West Symphony (first theme) on Manhattan Symphony Orchestra stationery (he led this orchestra for it's first 4 years after 1929). Massachusetts born Hadley studied under Mandyczewski in Vienna & Thuille (at Richard Strauss's suggestion) in Munich. He conducted his works abroad with great success. He conducted his opera "Cleopatra's Nights" at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920 where it ran for 2 seasons with great success. He led the Seattle Orchestra, built the San Francisco orchestra and from 1921-7 was associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic conducting and selecting repertory. He also conducted the Buenos Aires Philharmonic sharing duties with Clemens Krauss. In addition he founded the National Association for American Composers and Conductors in 1933 and was one of the founders of the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood. Very prolific as a composer he also was one of the first major American composers to compose and synchronize soundtrack music. .................$175	21. LACHENMANN, Helmut- AMusQS on a 5 x 6" card " Serenade 1999" with laid down photo of the German composer born 1935. Lachenmann was Nono's first private pupil 1958-60. He has called his music "musique concrete instrumentale" ie music that imitates electronic sounds through instrumental means! and his detractors have called it musica negativa or music of denial!! One of his most provocative works is "Das Madchen mit den Schwefelholzern" based on Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci & Gudrun Ensslin. .................$275
22. LISZT, Franz- ALS 1 page in Italian (uncommon) to Signore Liberato Aureli –Lavatorio del Papa- Fontana Trevi No.32 Roma Italia" - his supplier of cigars!! "Dear Signor Aureli, Please immediately send 200 strong Roman cigars and 200 Neopolitan of the same quality as you have in the past to me at my address in Weimar, Saxony. A thousand thanks 19 March Budapest" –nicely matted & framed with a younger image of the great composer/pianist. Overall 15 x 17". .................$1,750	23. MAHLER, Gustav- great big FULL signature 3" long on a 3 x 4.5" card together with a sepia image of the GREAT composer whose complete symphonic works were given a super chronological outing recently at Carnegie Hall under Barenboim and Boulez. PRIME EXAMPLE. .................$2,975	24. MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix- nice signature matted with a portrait image 7 x 9.5". This is the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth. .................$1,875
25. MERCADANTE, Saverio- signed address panel probably removed from a letter? addressed to Sig Vincernzo Flauto being hand delivered. This has been laid down on a slightly larger paper alongside a cabinet photo of the very prolific and successful Italian opera composer first encouraged by Rossini himself! He wrote "I Briganti" for Paris where it premiered with Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini & Lablache in 1836. In 1837 "Il Giuramento" one of his most successful works premiered at Teatro alla Scala and it was this work which started the revival of interest about 40 years . The operas are exciting and dramatic looking forward from the more old fashioned bel canto style. He wrote " I have continued the revolution I began in "Il Giuramento" "varied forms, cabalettas banished, crescendos out, vocal lines simplified, fewer repeats, more originality in the cadences, proper regards paid to the drama, orchestration rich but not so as to swamp the voices, no long solos in the ensembles (they only force the other parts to stand idle to the detriment of the action),not much brass drum, and a lot less brass band." .................$750	26. MESSIAEAN, Olivier- signs the cover of a 6 pp program for a Musical Tribute to Olivier Messiaen for his 80th birthday given at Florence Gould Hall New York City April 16,1988. Also signed by pianist Yvonne LORIOD. .................$300	27. MEYERBEER, Giacomo- ALS 1 p in French about an enclosed ticket for a loge seat for the recipient brother for the next day's performance of "Pardon de Ploeremel' ("Dinorah"). Together with a portrait of the composer of "Les Huguenots", "Le Prophete" & "L'Africaine." .................$500
28. NONO, Luigi- the avant garde Italian composer send greetings form Venice 7-'82. .................$175	29. ORFF, Carl- signature of the popular German composer on a 4 x 6" card below a laid down newspaper photo announcing a radio performance of "Die Kluge." .................$100	30. PFITZNER, Hans- AMusQS two measures in pencil on a card from the opening of his masterpiece "Palestrina" together with a portrait image. .................$675
31. PIETRI, Giuseppe- SPc of the composer of 18 operettas of great melody and 6 operas including "Maristella" premiered in 1938. The aria "Io conosco un giardino" from that work has been frequently recorded by tenorS from Gigli to Joseph Calleja. .................$150	32. PORTER, Cole- large signature matted with a portrait of the very popular Broadway composer of so many hit shows culminating with "Kiss Me Kate". Overall size 11 19". .................$475	33. PREVIN, Andre- SPc size action photo of the conductor/composer/jazz pianist who just turned 80!!Imagine time flies!! He has served as music director of the Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh orchestras in the US and the LSO and RPO in London as well as guesting world wide. He has composed prize winning film scores "GIGI" etc, operas "Streetcar Named Desire" & "Brief Encounter" and most recently a violin concerto for his then wife Anne- Sophie Mutter. Many top selling recordings and has been married 4 times to Betty Bennett, Dory Langdon (Previn), Mia Farrow and Anne Sophie Mutter!! ANOTHER VERSATILE SUPERSTAR. .................$125
34. PRYOR, Arthur- (1870-1942) was the famous trombone soloist with the Sousa Band before he organized his own band. He composed the famous "Bluebells of Scotland" and "The Whistler and His Dog." A near-mint postcard photo with a nice dark pencil signature plus a neatly printed musical quote. Mounting traces on the reverse. .................$250	35. PUCCINI, Giacomo- ALS 1 page in Italian 3 Agosto ‘906 from Boscolungo Abetone (Serra Bassa)Toscana to Maurice Vaucaire in France (see address panel showing in verso window).."Excuse me if I write in my language-I see with joy that "La Femme.(et le Pantin..."[which became the libretto for Zandonai's opera "Conchita"] moves ahead. I believe in your talent. I know nothing more of Tito (Ricordi) I think he is in Milano write him at Via Duomo 1-I stay here till September many affectionate greetings always- send me news- your Puccini". Interesting letter and associations. Matted and framed with verso window showing address. Overall 15 x 17." .................$1,275	36. RABAUD, Henri- ALS 1 p in French on Conservatoire National de Musique et Declamation stationery as the Director. He writes "2 Avril 1921 Dear M. Petitijean, I am happy to arrange for you the total of 8 tickets in loge 41 for the Good Friday . concert . It is during vacation and I will not be in Paris nor will any of my family...sincerely yours Henri Rabaud" from the Massenet pupil composer of "Marouf", Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1920, conductor of the Paris Opera and it's director for 10 years. Together with portrait image. .................$175
37. ROMBERG, Sigmund- signature on a card together with a portrait of the great Hungarian/American operetta composer- "Blossom Time", "The Student Prince", "New Moon" & "The Desert Song" were gold mines of tunes! .................$85	38. RONNEFELD, Peter- SP 4 x 6" action photo of the German composer/ conductor who died age 30 in 1965! He studied with Messiaen and van Kempen. He wrote the opera "Die Ameise" and as a conductor championed new music conducing premiered of operas by Yun, Zimmermann and others but that did not stop him from conducting Lortzing too!! Signed on the dark part VERY SCARCE. .................$125	39. SCHNITTKE, Alfred- signs the program for the American premiere of his epic polystylistic Symphony No.1 with the Boston symphony Orchestra under Rozhdestvensky March 14/25/27,1988. This was already after he had suffered his first stroke in 1985 and before he emigrated from the USSR to Hamburg in 1990. Initially much influenced by Shostakovich, Schnittke is one of the late Soviet period's greatest composers. After he emigrated and suffered more strokes his music became more introverted and bleak. UNUSUAL American signed program. .................$175
40. SOROZABAL, Pablo- SP 3.5 x 4.5" portrait of the Spanish composer who finished his training both in composition and conducting in Berlin. He wrote in many forms but is best known for his 20+ zarzuelas starTing with "Katiuska" in 1931 and including "La del manojo de rosas" and " La Taberna del Puerto". As a liberal he ran afoul of the Franco regime and had his share of problems. He also wrote film scores for dramatic films and conducted the Madrid Symphony Orchestra till 1952 when he was ousted after being denied permission to program Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. .................$150	41. SOUSA, John Phillip- AMusQS from his march "Grandioso" one of the 136 the March King wrote in between conducting over 15,632 concerts with his march band from 1892-1931!! Sousa remains one of the most famous and important names in American musical history. The quote is on a 4.5 x 7.5" page together with a photo from earlier years. .................$750	42. SPOHR, Louis- ALS 1 p in German "Cassel, 24 Dec. 1840, in German, to the General Intendantur of the Royal Plyahouses in Berlin concerning a troupe of "...40 Mountain Singers from the Pyrenées who are traveling for a charitable purpose..." Adding that their performance was supposed to be excellent, not just according to the local papers, but according to a "music connoisseur" who provided Spohr with an elaborate report on the singers. Letter mounted to the verso of the Berlin theater manageRS' letter with gold foil. The verso reveals an L.S. "Le Compte de Frederic[?]' 1p. 190x240 mm., Berlin, 25 Nov. 1840 in response to a letter of Spohr of 19 Nov. on the same subject writing, in French, that he "...was very much impressed with your suggestion, to which I consent with pleasure that the opera should book the 40 Mountain Singers for a concert against the half of the gross receipts for the premier show..." Letter similarly bordered in gold foil with elements of the General Intendatur's letterhead mounted to the top. Interesting. This is the 150th anniversary of Spohr's death. .................$450
43. STRAUSS, Richard- SPc 4 x 5.5" A.Pieperhoff Bayreuth portrait signed by the composer/ conductor 16.4.39. Strauss conducted at the Festival during the 1930s a matter of controversy after WW11. The top printed logo as been trimmed. .................$750	44. USTWOLSKAJA, Galina- large signature alongside a laid down photo of the Soviet/Russian composer a very close pupil of Shostakovich. She influenced her teacher it seems more than the other way around. Since the fall of the Soviet Union her work until then almost unknown has been played more and more frequently with great success. .................$100	45. VERDI, Giuseppe- LARGE 8 x 11" envelope for musica stampata (printed music) as written & completely addressed by Verdi to Maestro (Giovanni) Tebaldini alla Capella del Santo Padova and sent raccomandata (registered) –Verdi also wrote his name quite small (1" long) as sender on the lower left corner. Unusual document. Together with a photo OF Il Maestro. A nice inexpensive Verdi signature! .................$875
46. von BULOW, Hans- AMusQS he wrOte "Theme of Sasparilla" Polka just composed in Baltimore in the forenoon of 22 April 1889 Dr.Hans v Bulow" together with an unsigned photo of the composer/pianist/conductor closely associated with Liszt and Wagner – he conducted the premieres of both "Tristan und Isolde" & "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" and one of the most influential musical forces of the 19th century German music scene. .................$475	47. WAGENAR, Bernard- greeting and signature New York May 1946 from the Dutch/American composer below a laid down photo. He settled in New York in 1920 and taught at Juilliard from 1925-1968 hIs pupils including Druckman, Ward and many others. He wrote many works in a Neo Classical style and Toscanini performed his 2nd Symphony with the NYPO in 1932. .................$85

Abbreviations
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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