130. ABENDROTH, Hermann- TLS from the eminent German conductor with long tenures first with the orchestra in Koln and then with the Leipzig Gewandhaus as well as at the conservatories in both cities. He conducted the USSR State Symphony 1925-1928 and the London Symphony Orchestra 1926-1937. This letter is addressed to "Liebes zweiklavierges Ehepaar!"(Dear married duo pianists)- (Karl and Elizabeth Pillney) "I am so happy that my suggestion fell on fertile ground and resulted in your unconditional agreement. So, we leave it as follows: He plays d-minor (by the way, this is also my decided favorite). However, I am unable to settle the question of the (concert) date as quickly, despite my best intentions and although this deems most desirable to you - and rightfully so, dear Pilling. The reason for it is that I can only firm up Weimar once Leipzig and Berlin are set. I am constantly pushing there.. Yet, the question of the Hall in both cities is so difficult, that these matters simply cannot be settled more speedily. On Saturday I will be back in Weimar again and will call Berlin from there. I have already tried it from here, but was unable to reach the right person in Berlin. So, be patient for a little while longer, please! I am pushing as much as I can. In haste, between somewhat strenuous rehearsals, cordial greetings to both of you and your daughters, Your Hermann Abendroth My wife will follow and get to the concerts only on Thursday."
.................$175		 131. ACKERMANN, Otto- Pencil signature "Wien 27 x 48" together with a superb copy photo with signature and greeting from the very fine Rumanian/Swiss conductor who left some outstanding recordings eg the Strauss "Four Last Songs" with SCHWARZKOPF and her early complete operetta recordings which remain unbeatable! VERY SCARCE SIGNATURE.
.................$125		 132. ALBRECHT, Gerd- SP 4 x 6" action photo of the fine German conductor.
.................$60
133. ALLERS, Franz- SP 8 x 10" Maurice Seymour action photo of the Carlsbad born conductor who completely revised the standards of Broadway pit orchestra performance. Debuting in 1920 Allers had an active and successful opera and symphonic career in Europe before moving to the US in 1938. He toured North and South America with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo before accidently coming to Broadway when de Abravanel asked him to take over Lerner & Loewe's "Day Before Spring". They made him their permanent conductor and he lead the world premieres of "Brigadoon", Paint Your Wagon", "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot" as well as the first performances of "My Fair Lady" in Berlin, Munich, Milano, Moscow and Vienna. After Lerner and Loewe's breakup the divided his time between the US and Europe as director of the Tonkunstler Orchestra in Vienna and the Gartnerplatz Theater in Munich. He also conducted "Die Fledermaus", "Hansel and Gretel" and "Der Rosenkavalier" at the Met. Many recordings of course.
.................$175		 134. ARRIVABENI, Paulo- SP 5 x 7" color photo of the young Italian conductor.
.................$60		 135. BAUDO, Serge- SPc of the very fine Marseilles born conductor who had a very successful career in France. Paul Tortelier was his uncle.
.................$50
136. BERNARDI, Mario- SP 8 x 10" photo of the important Canadian born conductor who was raised and trained in Italy. He returned to Canada and became the country's most prominent native conductor to date with a vast repertory both operatic and symphonic. Many recordings. Rather uncommon.
.................$150		 137. BOHM, Dr. Karl- Sp 4 x 6" head shot of the GREAT conductor d/s New York 1967 at the height of his GREAT MET career. Very moody image.
.................$200		 138. BOLTON, Ivor- SP 5 x 7" action photo of the English harpsichord soloist/conductor. He has had a great varied career leading all the major English orchestras and opera companies in a very varied repertory from the Baroque to the modern. Many guest appearances worldwide with very close associations with the Munich Opera, Mozarteum in Salzburg besides countless recordings. He is one of THE Baroque specialists.
.................$60
139. BYCHKOV, Semyon- SP 5 x 7" color action photo of the exciting Russian born conductor back at the Met for "Otello"- he enjoys a great successful career in opera and symphony performances worldwide. One of the best!
.................$65		 140. CANTELLI, Guido- LARGE green signature 1955 below a laid down newspaper photo on a postcard size mount. The Great Italian conductor was considered Toscanini's successor before his tragic early death in a plane crash. A German newspaper article about the crash is included.
.................$375		 141. CHRISTIE, William,- SP 8 x 10" bust photo of the American conductor resident in France with his Les Arts Florissants vocal/instrumental group founded in 1979. Their breakthrough came with Rameau's "Atys" at the Opera Comique and it has been non stop triumph worldwide ever since with performances of French and Italian Baroque treasures and countless recordings.
.................$65
142. DAVIES, Dennis Russell- SP 4.25 x 6" photo of the American conductor who has held posts from Brooklyn to Bonn always championing living composers both American and foreign. –Cage, Glass, Hovhaness, Harrison, Bolcom and Part among many others come to mind. During his stay in Stuttgart he introduced 2 Glass operas. His recording of Copland's "Appalachian Spring" won a 1979 Grammy award.
.................$65		 143. DOHNANYI, Christoph von- SP 4 x 6" action photo of the very fine "old fashioned" elegant German conductor a very successful head of the Cleveland Orchestra. He is at home in London, Zurich, Vienna, Munich or Hamburg and wherever else GREAT conducting is appreciated.
.................$65		 144. ESTRADA, Andres Orozco- SP 5 x 7" action photo of the young Columbian conductor busy in Graz and Vienna with many guest engagements coming his way. He had a big success in Stockholm conducting Janine Jansen in the Shostakovitch Violin Concerto #2 and Tchaikowsky 5th Symphony. A name to watch.
.................$50
145. ETTI, Karl- SPc of the conductor of the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo radio Orchestra and others. There are interesting broadcast performances circulating.
.................$60		 146. EHRLING, Sixten- SP 8 x 10" bust portrait of the youthful Swedish conductor well before his later American success at the Met and Detroit. Ehrling studied with Albert Wolff and Karl Bohm. He was Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera 1953-1960 leading many performances with Bjorling, Nlsson etc. He left in a huff moving to the US where besides busily conducting he taught at Juilliard for 15 years and Myung-Whun Chung, Jo Ann Falletta & Christan Badea among others were his pupils.
.................$125		 147. FISCHER, Adam- SPc photo of the young Hungarian conductor quite a star nowadays.
.................$65
148. FRUHBECK de BURGOS, Rafael- SP 7.5 x 9.5" young action photo of the Spanish conductor trained in Munich where he won the Richard Strauss prize. He is a busy guest conductor world wide and has been music director of Rundfunkorchester Berlin, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Bilbao Orchestra, Vienna Symphony and currently REAI and the Dresden Philharmonic. Many super recordings.
.................$150		 149. FURTWANGLER, Wilhelm- LARGE 3.75" long heavy pencil signature below a laid down photo of the Master. Overall 6 x 11".
.................$775		 150. FURTWANGLER, Wilhelm- 32 page program book for the Vienna Philharmonic Nicolai Konzert 7 Janner 1951- Beethoven's Symphony No.9 with Seefried, Anday, Patzak and Edelmann.
.................$200
List of other FURTWANGLER programs on request.
151. GOLDMAN, Edwin Franko- SP x 10" action photo of the famed American band composer/conductor during the early 20th century, founding the New York Military Band known as the Goldman Band. For years they toured and gave countless outdoor performances around New York City often playing many of Goldman's 150 + marches etc the encore always being hi "On the Mall" with the audience singing along. He founded the American Bandmasters Association and served as the 2nd honorary life president after Sousa.
.................$375
HAGEMAN, Richard- see COMPOSER section.		 152. HARNONCOURT, Nikolaus & BARTOLI, Cecilia- SP 5 x 7" photo of the versatile cellist/conductor he founded Concentus Musicus Wien in 1953 and for years was the leader in spreading the gospel of performance of classical and earlier music on period instruments. Together with Gustav Leonhardt he recorded all of Bach's cantatas. With time he moved on to the BIG orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic and the later repertory but always keeping to the older performing styles. He is shown here with Cecilia BARTOLI (who also signs) with whom he has collaborated in some very great performances and recordings.
.................$75		 153. JACOBS, Renee- SP 5 x 7" portrait of the counter tenor/conductor one of the foremost experts and interpreters of the Baroque repertoire. He conducts the full range of Baroque chamber music and opera in all the major centers and has made countless superlative recordings.
.................$60
154. JANOWSKI, Marek- SP 4 x 6" action photo of the fine Polish conductor long active in France and England as as guest world wide-many fine recordings.
.................$60		 154a. JONES, Julia- SP 5 x 7" color action photo of the English conductor active in both orchestral and operatic music (Basle, Vienna, Berlin)- as well as Bologna where she was the first woman to ever conduct a Wagner opera in Italian the theatre where it had its Italian premier took place. She is one of the rising stars.
.................$50


HERBERT von KARAJAN 100 YEARS OLD - The General Musik Direktor of the World
155. KARAJAN, Herbert von- SP 4 x 6" action photo by Siegfried Lauterwasser.
.................$475		 156. KARAJAN, Herbert von- SP 5.5 x 7" program stock photo laid down on a larger mount.
.................$375		 157. KARAJAN, Herbert von- KARAJAN in his prime and the young OZAWA- 5 x 7" White stone photo together with signature of Karajan and Ozawa.
.................$275
158. KARAJAN, Herbert von- SP on the cover of a 6 x 8" Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester program 16 page book for the 26 Februar 1959 Frankfurt concert.
.................$475		 159. KARAJAN, Herbert von- Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic. Large program book for the concert of 23 Octobre 1953 given by the VPO under Karajan at the Theatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris- Great cover photo, 12 pages 9 x 11".
.................$100		 159a. KARAJAN, Herbert von- KARAJAN the recording engineer- unsigned 5 x 7" Lauterwasser photo for Electrola of a playback session showing Horst Laubensthal, Zoltan von Keleman, Karl Ridderbusch, KARAJAN and long time  producer Michel Glotz.
.................$175
Other unsigned photos available.


160. KLEIBER, Erich- SP on the Spanish language bio page in the program book for Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" at Teatro Colon Buenos Aires- 8 Settembre 1940- Soloists Judith Hellwig, Rise Stevens, Kolomon von Pataky & Emanuel List. Kleiber lived in Buenos Aires and had a long fruitful association with the Teatro Colon.
.................$175		 161. KLEMPERER, Otto- GIANT 4.25" long signature from the TITANIC conductor with unsigned photo
.................$200		 162. LEINSDORF, Erich- SPc size candid photo of the young conductor backstage. Leinsdorf was an incredibly VERSATILE conductor of an ENORMOUS repertory both symphonic and operatic and always maintained the highest standards. Unusual photo
.................$200
163. LOIBNER, Wilhelm- SP c portrait of the smiling longtime Vienna Opera conductor a real old fashioned kapellmeister. Many fine broadcasts and recordings of his fine performances around.
.................$85		 164. LUISOTTI, Nicola- SP 8 x 10.5" color photo of the prominent Italian conductor the new music director of the San Francisco Opera.
.................$65		 165. MASUR, Kurt- SP 4 x 6" portrait of the former NYPO chief conductor formerly of the Lepizig Gewandhaus and now in London.
.................$50
166. McFERRIN, Bobby- SP 5 x 7" color action photo of the noted composer/original vocalist/conductor. McFerrin conducts major orchestras in classical works often also singing in his own style. He has held a permanent position with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is one of the most versatile performers around- many recordings, many GRAMMYS and very active in musical education.
.................$75		 167. MUTI, Riccardo- SP 5 x 7" photo at the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Eve concert or 4 x 6" photo conducting. He had a triumph again with the NewYork Philharmonic.
.................$75
ORBELIAN, Constantine- see PODLES, EWA OPERA section.		 168. RASILAINEN, Ari- Sp 5 x 7" action photo of the young Finnish conductor who has made many fine recordings.
.................$60
169. RATTLE, Sir Simon- Sp 5 x 7" color portrait or 4 x 6" conducting shot. He is prospering as head of the Berlin Philharmonic.
.................$65		 170. RODZINSKI, Artur- SP 5.75 x 8.5" portrait of the Dalmatian born Polish conductor educated in Lwow and Vienna who got his start at the operas in Lwow and Warsaw coming to the US as assistant conductor to Stokowski in Phildelphia 1925-1929 then going to Los Angeles till 1933 and finally to Cleveland in 1933-1943 when he transformed the orchestra to the WORLD CLASS ensemble it has remained ever since. While in Cleveland he also conducted staged performance of operas including Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mzensk". He was head of the New York Philharmonic 1943-1947 which was the summit of his career. He and the orchestra were featured in the film "Carnegie Hall" and he was on the cover of Time Magazine. He was famed as an orchestra builder and he put together the NBC Symphony Orchestra that Toscanini later led. His later years were spent recording and free lancing eg "Tristan und Isolde" in Firenze and Chicago. Never healthy he died at 66 in 1966. UNCOMMON in VINTAGE photos.
.................$475		 171. RUDOLPH, Max- SP 8 x 10" portrait of the German conductor who had sucessful engagements as chief conductor in Darmstadt, Prague and Goteborg before emigrating to the US in 1940. He started with the New Opera Company in New York and came to the Met in 1945 as conductor and artistic administrator. conducting many performances and seeing that all went smoothly. He was music director of the Cincinnati Orchestra 1958-1969 taking it on world tours. He then became head of the opera and conducting departments of the Curtis Institute while continuing to guest conduct many American orchestras. His book "The Grammar of Conducting" is the bible of conductors.
.................$150
172. SHAW, Robert- SP 8 x 10" action photo of the beloved conductor of the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
.................$85		 173. SITKOVETSKY, Dimitry- SP 5 x 7" action photo of the fine Russian conductor/violinist who is conducting more and more with great success.
.................$60
see SITKOVETSKY in INSTRUMENTAL section.		 174. STOKOWSKI, Leopold- SP 7 x 9" head shot of THE MATINEE IDOL conductor like Toscanini almost a household name unique in American musical history from Bach transcriptions to "Fantasia" he was tops running the show from Philadelphia.
.................$275
175. WELSER-MOST, Hans- SP 8 x 10.25" color action shot of the new Vienna State Opera Music Director and chief conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra – two coveted posts for the Austrian conductor just embarked on the new RING in Vienna.
.................$85
SWETLANOV, Jewgeni- see COMPOSER section Schostakovitch.


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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