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1. Ansermet, Ernst. (1883-1969).
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Early Signed Photograph. A rare early signed photograph from the conductor who from 1915 to 1923 was conductor for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. This remarkable original photograph was signed and inscribed by Ansermet in 1917, when he was only 32 years old and before he had founded the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Ansermet was closely involved with most of the leading composers of the first half of the century and during World War I, he met Stravinsky and began a lifelong association with Russian music. When the present photograph was signed, Ansermet had yet to conduct the premieres for which he is best remembered, including Stravinsky's "Histoire du Soldat" (1918), "Pulcinella" (1920), "Les Noces" (1923) or De Falla's "The Three-Cornered Hat." (1919). One heavy horizontal crease across image, priced accordingly. Signed additionally by the photographer and mounted to 16 X 24 cm overall. $175.00 |
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2. [Arnould, Sophie. (1740-1802)] Douglas, Robert.
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Sophie Arnould: Actress and Wit. Paris: C. Carrington, 1898. First edition. Limited edition, 1/500. 8vo, orig. pink/purple silk; corners & spine ends scuffed. With 7 copper plate engravings by Adolphe Lalauze. Arnould's "performance in sacred music impressed the royal family and Mme de Pompadour, and she was appointed to the Opéra, studying declamation with Clairon and singing with Marie Fel. Her voice was sweet and expressive, not powerful, supported by fine diction and acting. She was the leading Opéra soprano from 1757 (début in Mouret’s Les amours des dieux) to 1778. She sang over 30 roles, by Lully, Rameau, Rousseau (Le devin du village) and others; several she created, but her greatest was Telaira in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux." (Grove Online) $45.00 |
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3. Artôt, Désirée. (1835-1907).
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Rare Autograph Letter, mentioning a performance for the Queen of Russia. Interesting letter, dated February 22, 1862. Artôt rejects an invitation to sing in Vienna and details her busy concert schedule. In particular, she explains that she will soon leave England for Berlin where she has been called to perform for the Queen of Russia at the opera house and at court concerts. 3 pages. The great Belgian Soprano studied with Viardot before going on to win acclaim throughout Europe as one of the greats of her era. On Meyerbeer's recommendation, she starred at the Paris Opera and appeared regularly in Italy, Germany, and England. In 1868 she went to Russia and became friends with Tchaikovsky, who eventually proposed marriage to her. She rejected him and - with tragic consequences - he married another, later saying that Artot was the only woman he ever wanted to marry. Artot eventually married baritone Mariano Padilla and together they produced the soprano Lola Artot de Padilla. $185.00 |
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4. Auer, Leopold. (1845-1930).
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Autograph Letter and Photograph. A scarce ALS from the important violinist and influential pedagogue, teacher of Elman, Heifetz, Milstein, Zimbalist, Parlow, Schumsky and many others! 3 integral pages, pen doodles in same ink on fourth (otherwise black) conjoined sheet. In French, to the composer Alexander Sergeievich Taneyev (1850 - 1918), regarding the premiere of one of his works. Sold together with a fine original doubleweight 8X10 portrait by Mishkin. Leopold Auer spent nearly fifty years in St. Petersburg and exerted a decisive influence on the Russian violin school, following Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski as solo violin at the Imperial Ballet. Arensky, Glazunov, Taneyev and Tchaikovsky wrote their most important violin compositions for him. As for Tschaikovsky’s violin concerto, Auer refused the dedication, declaring it technically awkward and too long! After a few revisions to the violin part, he eventually played this monumental violin work in 1893, shortly before the composer’s death. $400.00 |
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5. Auer, Leopold. (1845-1930).
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Original Photograph. A superb original photograph of the important violinist and influential pedagogue, teacher of Elman, Heifetz, Milstein, Zimbalist, Parlow, Schumsky and many others! An International Newsreel photograph, 8X 10 inches with a few repaired creases, tears, and one corner chipped. Auer is shown pointing to a Max Reger score with an unidentified student looking on. $125.00 |
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6. [Ballet and Entertainment] Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Anna Mae Wong, Jerome Robbins etc.
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Incredible 1944 Signed Ballet Theatre Program. A 1944 Ballet Theatre program, signed by most of the company dancers as well as by a remarkable group of entertainers who attended a performance. The program belonged to the dancer Harold Lang (featured in the program), and a few of the signatures are addressed to him. Signatures on the title-page include, among others: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Charlie Chaplin and Oona Chaplin (the newly married 17-year-old daughter of Eugene O'Neill), Anna Mae Wong (also signing in Chinese characters), Janet Gaynor (the first woman to win an Academy Award), Alexis Smith, Craig Stevens, John Carradine, Adrian (designer), J. Carroll Naish, Anne Shirley, Alexis, Tcherkassky, Irma Wise, Akim Tamiroff, Belita, Marjorie Woodworth. Inside the program, the following dancers have signed next to their portraits: Jerome Robbins, Anton Dolin, Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing, Andre Eglevsky, Lucia Chase, Paul Petroff, Rosella Hightower, Antony Tudor, John Kriza, Nicolas Orloff, Miriam Golden, Mimi Gomber, Rozsika Sabo, Shirley Eckl, Simon Semenoff, Maria Karnilova, Michael Kidd, Barbara Fallis, Virginia Wilcox, Doreen Oswald, Rex Cooper, Alpheus Koon, Fernando Alonso, John Taras. In very good condition. $1400.00 |
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7. Baryshnikov, Mikhail. (b. 1948).
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Gorgeous Large Satin-Finish Signed Photograph. Color satin-finish 8 x 12 inch photo of Baryshnikov performing, signed in-person in blue felt tip. In very fine condition. $350.00 |
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8. Baryshnikov, Mikhail. (b. 1948).
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Photograph at White House with Patricia McBride and President Carter! Original press photograph from "Baryshnikov at the White House." 8X10 inches and in fine condition. $40.00 |
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9. Batta, Alexandre. (1816-1902).
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Collection of Autograph Letters. Rare collection of 4 autograph letters from the important Belgian cellist and composer. To his friend, Emile Renaud (organist of the palace chapel, Versailles). Together with a postcard portrait, a reproduction of the 1855 Batta portrait by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. All in very fine condition, as follows: 4 pp. 11 X 18 cm. 08/11/1885. Addressed "Mon bon ami," a long and intimate letter regarding travels, health, music, concerts etc. 3 pp. 11 X 18 cm. [nd] Addressed "Cher et excellent ami," a warm and intimate letter of thanks for a gift of "suculent abricots," noting however, that he remains in the same poor health, discussing his condition and other matters. 2 pp. 11 X 18 cm. [nd] On black-bordered mouring stationary, addressed "Mon Cher Ami," a resigned letter about the death of a mutual friend, remarking on "ce noble coeur, cette admirable nature, cette belle ami," and lamenting his own sorrow, pain, poor physical and moral condition. 4 pp. 11 X 18 cm. 08/14/1895. Addressed "Mon Cher ami," a long and intimate letter regarding travels, the marriage of a friend, mentioning Dumas and other matters. A student of Platel in Brussels, Alexandre Batta later settled in Paris (1835) and made many successful concert tours throughout Europe. A regular chamber music partner of Liszt and an intimate of Berlioz, he wrote many original works and fanciful transcriptions for cello and piano. Though not as well remembered as his friend and fellow Platel student, Francois Servais, he was an important cellist during his lifetime. Status: sold |
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10. Beethoven, Ludwig Van. (1770-1827).
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Bagatelles pour Piano...Op. 33. Mayence: Schott, [1828]. Upright folio. 21 pp. Engraved [PN] 167. Title with attractive decorative vignette. An uncommon early edition, in fine condition. Kinsky/Halm p. 85. $135.00 |
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11. Beethoven, Ludwig van. (1770-1827).
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Bronze Portrait Medal. Bronze medal by Rudolf Mayer. Bust facing left, reverse shows standing Muse with trumpet and lyre, 60mm (Niggl 200b). From the famous Niggl collection and in very fine condition. $250.00 |
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12. Beethoven, Ludwig van. (1770-1827).
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Ouverture aus der Oper Fidelio, für das Forte-Piano. Wien: Artaria und Comp., [1814]. First edition. Oblong folio. Title; 1 - 8 pp. Engraved. [PN] 2327. First edition of the first published piano reduction by Moscheles, as supervised by the composer himself. In later marbled wrappers, margins moderately soiled, small hole in margin of title page, bottom edge a little rough, but overall very good. Kinsky p. 183. In his introduction to the English edition of Schindler's 'Life of Beethoven," Ignaz Moscheles writes: "It was in the year 1814, when Artaria undertook to publish a piano-forte arrangement of Beethoven's 'Fidelio,' that he asked the composer whether I might be permitted to make it: Beethoven assented, upon condition that he should see my arrangement of each of the pieces, before it was given into the engraver's hands. Nothing could be more welcome to me, since I looked upon this as the long wished-for opportunity to approach nearer to the great man, and to profit by his remarks and corrections. During my frequent visits, the number of which I tried to multiply by all possible excuses, he treated me with the kindest indulgence. Although his increasing deafness was a considerable hindrance to our conversation, yet he gave me many instructive hints, and even played to me such parts as he wished to have arranged in a particular manner for the piano-forte." $375.00 |
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13. Beethoven, Ludwig Van. (1770-1827).
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Portrait Engraving. A fine steel engraving by W. Holl after the painting by Kloeber. Published by William Mackenzie, ca. 1860. 19 X 27.5 cm. Status: sold |
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14. Beethoven, Ludwig Van. (1770-1827).
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Sonate pour Piano-Forte avec un Violon...Oeuvre 24. ["Spring Sonata"]. Bonn: Simrock, 1802. First edition, second issue. Composée et dédiée à Mr. Le Comte Maurice de Fries. Piano score and violin part. Folio (32,6 x 25,5 cm). Title, 16-31; 8-13 (complete). Engraved; [PN] 226. Kinsky/Halm p. 60 (with the wrong PN, exchanged with Op.23). In very good condition, light finger-stains, a few early customs marks. A very rare issue of this beloved Sonata, the first reprint edition, published in the year of the first edition. $500.00 |
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15. Bentonelli, Joseph. (1898-1975).
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Signed Photograph of the "Oklahoma Tenor." Fine stamped original Maurice Seymour 8 X10 photograph of the handsome and debonair "Oklahoma Tenor." Additionally signed and inscribed on the verso. Born "Joseph Benton," he was a student of Oscar Saenger's in Chicago and also studied in France with Jean de Reszke. He performed throughout Europe in the 1920s and created the role of Valeriano in Refice's "Cecilia," opposite Claudia Muzio. Back in the US, he was a leading tenor in Chicago and New York and later taught at the University of Oklahoma until 1969. $85.00 |
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16. Berezowsky, Nicolai. (1900-1953).
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Babar the Elephant. A Children's Opera in One Act. Five Scenes.[Subtitle]: Story based on the Babar Stories: The Story of Babar, TheTravels of Babar, and Babar the King of Jean de Brunhoff. New York: Carl Fischer, [Copyright 1953]. Octavo. 95 pp. [PN[ N 2018. Original publisher's blue printed wrappers. Wrappers worn and rubbed, else a very nice copy. The Russian-born American composer was also a violinist and served as musical director of the School of Modern Art in Moscow and as first violinist at the Moscow Grand Opera before coming to the US to study at Julliard with Paul Kochanski. He was first violinist with the New York Philharmonic for seven years of his U.S. residence and played in the Coolidge String Quartet from 1935-1940. $40.00 |
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17. Berger, Arthur. (1912-2003).
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Ideas of Order. Boston: 1952. First edition. Vintage oversize dyeline full orchestral score, 13 X 17 inches. 66 pp. Dedicated to Dimitri Mitropoulos. An unusual score from the influential American composer, critic and teacher, one of the first to write about Charles Ives and the first to write a book on the music of Aaron Copland. "Ideas of Order" was commissioned in 1952 by conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who gave its premiere with the New York Philharmonic the following year. The composer writes: "The title [of Ideas of Order] reflects a devotion to the American poet Wallace Stevens, which dates back to my days as a graduate student in music at Harvard in the mid-1930's. It was around the time that his second book, 'Ideas of Order', was published by Alfred A. Knopf. Since my work for Mitropoulos was neither program music nor in any standard form, I sought a neutral name like Composition and thought of almost everything that is common to all music, including an 'order of tones' when I remember Stevens. In his 'Ideas of Order', poet and musician are identified in their quest for ordered arrangement within the realm of imagination as a mode of relief, if only momentary, from our daily involvement with experience ... I sympathize with the motives he attributes to 'Requiring an order beyond speech' -- an order not to be confused with political order, which is its exact antithesis....There is, then, nothing more literal in the connection between the poem and my music than the assumption that as a musician my aim is to order tones. I have done so in this through permutations of three notes that serve not as a motif but as guideposts for choice of melodic lines and harmonies." $125.00 |
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18. Berlin, Irving. (1888-1989).
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Autograph Signature, "Alexanderly yours." From one of America’s greatest songwriters. Vintage fountain pen signature, “Alexanderly yours, Irving Berlin,” on an off-white 5 x 6.5 album page. In fine condition, with light toning, trimmed top edge, and a couple small dings to right edge. Elegantly double-matted with a 1938 copy of Berlin's famous song "Alexander's Ragtime Band," with a vignette portrait of the composer where that of Emma Carus had originally appeared in 1911. $325.00 |
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19. Bernhardt, Sarah. (1844-1923).
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Signed Photograph. From the most famous actress of the 19th century, known as “The Divine Sarah.” Vintage 3.5 x 5.5 hand-colored Reutlinger postcard photo, signed in fountain pen. In very fine condition. $375.00 |
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20. Biggs, E. Power. (1906-1977).
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Signed LP, "French Organ Music." New York: Columbia Masterworks. Box set, signed by the great organist and dated 1949 on one of the inside sleeves. Box and autograph in very good condition. Four of five records included. $85.00 |
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