4 x 5 inch original photograph of the great Austrian conductor who is shown annotating a score. Boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen ink and dated 1959.
Autograph letter, 1 page, no date. Charmingly addressed to the composer Léo Delibes ("Leo de mi alma"), making plans to meet at the Hôtel de l‘Univers after a performance of his "Mephisto," the most celebrated work of the Italian composer and librettist. Read More...
Original Achille Ferrario of Milan cabinet photograph of the celebrated Italian opera composer and librettist who is remembered chiefly for his libretti for Ponchielli (La Gioconda) and Verdi (Otello and Falstaff), and for his own Mefistofele, are uncommon. 11 x 16 cm.
Original lifetime Russian cabinet portrait photograph of the composer by C. Chapiro of St. Petersburg. 10.5 x 16.5 cm. Some scattered stray ink marks, otherwise in very fine condition.
An unusual image of the Austrian-born American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1962 -1969. He is shown in this 1979 photograph with Giorgio Tozzi as they greet each other at playback of their "Barber of Seville." 10 x 8 inches, signed boldly in black ink with his name alone. Lower right corner chipped, creases to margin of left corner, else fine. Read More...
Original Window & Grove cabinet photograph, boldly signed and dated Boston [18]96 in the lower blank margin. In fine condition.
In 1881, Henschel became the Boston Symphony Orchestra's first conductor. In 1884, he returned to England and was professor of singing at the Royal College of Music, London. A close friend of Brahms, he was a man of many musical talents, a great conductor, composer, and baritone.
A pair of original cabinet photographs, the first a solo portrait, the second with his first wife, American soprano Lilian June Bailey (1860-1901) and an unidentified other woman. Together with an ink signature dated Sept 1932 on a small card. Read More...
Signed halftone photograph of the longtime Boston Symphony Conductor. An attractive bust portrait removed from a 1949 Havana concert program. 6 x 9 inches, fine. Read More...
Rare and highly significant AMQS of the opening motive of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, penned and signed from the important conductor who was the first EVER to record the work. On a mounted halftone image of the conductor printed by Paul Kiemann, Kunstverlag, Hannover. 9 x 14 cm, tipped to a slightly larger mat. Fine. Read More...
Remarkable original 1946 photograph of the American composer/conductor, shown at Tanglewood with Koussevitzky and tenor, William Horne - all inspecting the score of Britten's "Peter Grimes," shortly before its U.S. premiere there, conducted by Bernstein and with Horne in the title role. Stamps and stickers to verso. 7 x 5 in. [18 x 13 cm], in very fine condition.
Postcard photograph sent from Switzerland to Brooklyn, New York signed and inscribed on the verso by the important German conductor who conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1908-12: "Many thanks for your kind letter of April 9 and warmest remembrances from yours very truly Max Fiedler." 8.5 x 13.5 cm. Silvered, upper left corner chipped, else fine.
Signed cabinet photograph of the Austrian-born conductor and composer who gave the Viennese premiere of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser before leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1884–1889 and 1898–1906. An original Falk cabinet photograph, boldly signed in the lower margin and dated February 3rd, 1899. Fine and quite scarce.
Original Falk cabinet photograph, signed and inscribed "for a happy New Year / Dec. 80" in the lower blank margin. In fine condition.
In 1881, Henschel became the Boston Symphony Orchestra's first conductor. In 1884, he returned to England and was professor of singing at the Royal College of Music, London. A close friend of Brahms, he was a man of many musical talents, a great conductor, composer, and baritone.
TLS from the eminent Russian conductor, composer and double-bass virtuoso. One page, letterhead of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. January 18, 1935. To Louis Persinger, thanking him for "writing to let me know about your young pupil Gloria Perkins" and saying that he "shall look forward to give an audition to this young artist during one of my future visits to New York." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Originates from the collection of American violinist and pianist Louis Persinger (1887–1966), who trained at the Leipzig Conservatory and later taught at Juilliard, mentoring the likes of Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci, and Isaac Stern.
Vintage 1944 photograph of "a testimonial dinner given by American composer in honor of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky...in New York." Shown in the picture are Olga Naumoff, the conductor's niece, Koussevitzky, and Aaron Copland. 10 x 8 inches. Marks around the edges and some crazing/creasing to the image.
A fine original 1969 publicity 8 x 10 inch photograph of the fabulous American conductor who was principal conductor of the BSO from 2004-2011. Rare from this period!
5 x 8 inch sheet, signed by the influential French composer and dated Boston, 11 Avril 1986, the date of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's American premiere performance of his "Three Tableaux from 'St. Francis of Assisi.'" Signed additionally by the French pianist and wife of the composer, Yvonne Loriod, her sister, the Ondes Martenot player, Jeanne Loriod, conductor Seiji Ozawa, and by the basso José Van Dam, soprano Kathleen Battle, tenor Kenneth Riegel, and baritone Philippe Rouillon. Additional unidentified signatures on the verso, slight show-through of verso tape stains, otherwise fine. Read More...
An unusual original photograph of the great French conductor, shown clowning around with Antoinette Frederksen, wife of the composer and cellist Sigurd Frederiksen (1881 - 1965), principal cellist of the Carl Rosa Opera Company and later of the Cincinnati Symphony, Detroit Symphony and LA Philharmonic. Monteux has signed and inscribed the photograph "To Antoinette - in remembrance of a foolish intermission during a very serious rehearsal!! / with much sympathy / Pierre Monteux / Hollywood Bowl / July 1927." Somewhat light ink adhesion to the signature, else fine. 6 x 8 inches [15 x 20 cm].