8 x 10 inch original doubleweight Reg Wilson photograph of the smiling Maestro, inscribed to Desire Ligeti, basso of the San Francisco opera and on Broaday: "To my friend Desire Ligeti / very cordially / George Solti." Corners nicked, overall in fine condition.
An interesting short note from the important American musical composer. 1 page. December 2, 1980. On his letterhead. Addressed "Dear Mrs. Malin." In full: "Hope the enclosed is what you want. My favorite song of my own is 'Someone in a Tree,' of others 'Birth of the Blues' (at least this year). Yours sincerely, Stephen Sondheim." In very fine condition.
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. . 1973. Book Club. Photos, 8.5 x 5.75, boards, 182 pp, covers rubbed and soiled and unevenly sunned, contents good, in worn, dw. SIGNED BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM.
186. Strauss, Richard. (1864–1949). Autograph Letter, " I am not a factory of musical notes that works with guaranteeed delivery."
2 pp. Marquartstein, Sept. 23 [no year]. A highly interesting letter from the influential composer and conductor, addressed to Norbert Salter. Usual folds, in fine condition. In full: Read More...
Original 8 x 10 inch photograph of the entire Vienna Philharmonic, with Richard Strauss seated in the front row, shown on board the "D. Kõln" Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremer steamer ship in Buenos Aires, August 1923. On an elaborate relief-printed mount, measuring 27 x 34 cm overall. A striking image!
An interesting signed photograph, signed inscribed in the lower blank margin by the composer to the singer Margarete Teschemascher, calling her an "outstanding Arabella": "“Fräulein Margarete Teschemacher, der ausgezeichneten Arabella, … aufrichtig ergeben Richard Strauss. Stuttgart, 12.II.33." An original photograph from the Atelier Illengerger of Stuttgart, measuring 27.5 x 22 cm overall and signed additionally by the photographer. Read More...
A superb signed photograph of the composer, one of the most famous images by the great photographer Richard Avedon. Originally taken in 1959, the present item is a later printing on thick card-stock, with a gold border around the margin and with "Avedon" printed at the bottom left corner. Stravinsky has boldly signed and inscribed the photograph in black ink, idiosyncratically spelling "Holliwood" and dating it "Febr / 62." 12 x 12 inches and in very fine condition.
Autograph manuscript from the English pianist and composer, whose real name was Burnand. Born at Croyden, he became a pupil of the Leipzig Conservatory in 1876 and later studied under Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, with Liszt in Weimar (he went on to publish a volume of "Chats" with Liszt). He appeared as a pianist throughout Europe and America and wrote a sizeable quantity of music, mostly for the piano. Read More...
A beautiful hand-painted paper and wood fan, signed by the full cast of the Mikado in a Leek, UK production by W. Warrington, ca. 1925. The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive includes a 1928 review from the Staffordshire Sentinel which discusses other Gilbert & Sullivan productions by this producer and much of this same cast. In very fine condition, a beautiful piece of autograph ephemera, approx. 15 x 8 inches when opened.
Boston: Ernst Perabo. 1887. First edition. 83 pp. Printed brown paper wrappers, striking color lithograph cover page. Scattered light damp-staining throughout, otherwise fine. 35 cm. Read More...
London: Cassell & Company. 1927. First edition. 314 pp. 235 x 165 mm. Signed inside by Flower and with a boldly signed autograph signature of Arthur Sullivan (the conclusion of a letter) laid in. Hardcover with special cloth spine and gold embossing, a very good tight copy. with many lovely plates.
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Original autograph music score for the 1961 British horror film, "Shadow of the Cat." From the collection of the film's producer, Roy Skeggs, of Hammer Films. Read More...
Milan: Giovanni Ricordi. 1844. First edition, first issue. Oblong folio. Title, vb. Indice, verso Personaggi - Attori. Music, pp. 3-56; Blank [56]; Music, pp. 57 - 229; Blank [230]. Title within a blue printed border, cast list with original singers, engraved music. [PN] 16221 - 16241. Early marbled boards, half brown leather. Some worming to margins, outside of the plate and thus never affecting the notation, and affecting primarily the first half of the pages. One page (final page, 229) torn and repaired from blank verso without losses. Overall, a good and clean copy of this scarce score. Hopkinson 41 A (a). Read More...
Milan: Tito di Gio. Ricordi. [1853]. First edition. Riduzione per pianoforte solo di Luigi Truzzi. Oblong folio. Title with vignette by Ratti of a scene from the opera; Indice; 21 separate issues, with continuous pagination at bottom right and individual pagination at top right; 140 pp. Engraved. [PN] 24967-24986. Contemporary purple boards with half blue calf. Boards somewhat worn and toned, scattered foxing, block separating from the joints internally with full separation of the title page and ffe Issued simultaneously with Hopkinson 54A(e). Read More...
5.25 x 3.25 in. receipt, signed in full and dated May 31, 1936 by the great Fats, who acknowledges a debt of $100.00, "an advance to be deducted from my first salary." Sold together with a graphically attractive 1938 broadside advertising a show with Fats performing. 10 x 30 in. Read More...
New York: Knopf. 1946. First American edition. A nice association copy from the library of Leonard Bernstein [Sotheby Sale 7070, Lot 158], signed by Bruno Walter on the half-title. Read More...
Magnificent original full-length Sarony cabinet photograph of the masterful violinist. In very fine condition.11 x 16.5 cm.
Carl Flesch called him "the most outstanding and individual violinist I have ever heard in my life," and he was the dedicatee of many major works from Debussy, Saint-Saens, Franck, Chausson and others.