Rare signed photograph of the great pianist whose flourishing career was cut tragically short by a plane crash on the way back from Australia. Copland wrote of him: “ I cannot conceive of his ever having given a dull performance – an erratic one, perhaps, a misguided or stylistically incongruous one maybe, but invariably one that was electric and alive.” Boldly signed below his photograph on a bio clipped from a program where he was billed as "'Khachaturian' Kapell." 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
A fine signed postcard photograph from the the important Hungarian/English pianist. 9 x 13 cm, mounted together with a clipped autograph return address and (on the verso of the mounting page), the transmissal envelope. All in fine condition.
Autograph signature of the Hungarian-American pianist, student of Louis Kentner and Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly and later a concentration camp survivor. On an album page, together with a 1977 recital program commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the death of Beethoven.
Very rare AMQS fromone of the most celebrated pianists of the early nineteenth century, and perhaps the only female virtuoso-pianist who was consistently ranked with Liszt. Three chords, penned on ruled paper and boldly signed M. Pleyel. 20 x 8 cm. Read More...
Bust portrait postcard photograph, boldly signed by the great pianist "In kind remembrance of Arthur Rubinstein / Montreal, 19.11.40" and in fine condition. 9 x 14 cm.
Bold autograph from the Austrian/American pianist whose Schubert and Beethoven recordings are beyond compare. Dated 1932, on an album page, 11.5 x 18.5 cm. Together with a 1948 press photograph with some in-painting from periodical publication.
His teacher, Theodor Leschetizky, once told him: “You will never be a pianist. You are a musician.”
Three-bar AMQS of a passage by Liszt, penned by the elegant Russian-American pianist, Dated 1951 and measuring 7.1 x 4.1 inches. Mounted to an album page, vertical crease, else fine.
AMQS from the French composer, conductor, and organist. The first two measures of the slow movement ("Belatsarena") from his "Fantaisie Basque" op.49 for violin and orchestra, dedicated to Jacques Thibaud and first played at the "Concerts Colonne" in December 1927. The quotation boldly signed and dated 4.6.30. 8.5 x 6 cm and in very fine condition. Read More...
173. Porter, Cole. (1891–1964). "I [will] refrain from giving people an exaggerated idea of your drinking" - Autograph Letter to Monty Woolley
Autograph letter in pencil, signed “Cole,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 6.75, Granliden Hotel letterhead, July 11, no year. Letter to director and actor Montey Woolley, a longtime friend and confidant dating back to their days at Yale, in full: “I have read your letter over several times. My answer is that not only will I refrain from giving people an exaggerated idea of your drinking, in the future, but also, I deny ever having done so in the past. However, as you refuse to believe this, it’s perhaps better, lest you be contaminated by my vicious tongue, that we don’t see each other from now on.” In fine condition. Handwritten letters from Porter are notoriously uncommon.
174. Porter, Cole. (1891–1964). Letter Regarding the reception of Can-Can and his intention to begin work on Silk Stockings
TLS, one page, signed "Cole" and dated July 9, 1953. An amusing letter to his music editor/publisher, Albert Sirmay, noting, among other things, that he will begin work on the musical Ninotchka (which became "Silk Stockings"), the last musical that Porter wrote for the stage. Approx 7.5 x 10 inches and in fine condition. Read More...
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Signed photograph of the great songwriter, the famous portrait taken in NY by Hal Phyfe in the early 1940s. This one signed "Cole Porter" in blue ink along the right side. 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Fine.
177. [Querelle des Bouffons] Rousseau, Jean Jacques. (1712 - 1778). Lettre sur la musique françoise. [Together with:] [Elie-Catherine Fréron]. Lettres sur la musique françoise. En Réponse a celle de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [And:] [N. de Caux de Cappeval]. Apologie du goût François, Relativement à L'Opera: Poeme, Avec un Discours Apologètique [sic], & des Adieux aux Bouffons. [And:] Filippo Venuti. Il trionfo letterario della Francia.
[N.p.]: 1753. Deuxiéme [sic] édition. [N.p.]: 1753. [Together with:] [Elie-Catherine Fréron]. Lettres sur la musique françoise. En Réponse a celle de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Geneva: 1754. [And:] [N. de Caux de Cappeval]. Apologie du goût François, Relativement à L'Opera: Poeme, Avec un Discours Apologètique [sic], & des Adieux aux Bouffons. [Paris: 1754]. [And:] Filippo Venuti. Il trionfo letterario della Francia...Avignon: Appresso Alesssandro Giroud, 1750. Four works in one small octavo volume (7.5625 x 4.625 inches; 193 x 117 mm.). Contemporary French sprinkled calf with covers ruled in blind; spine decoratively panelled in gilt in compartments with five gilt-decorated raised bands (gilt now mostly lost) and brown leather label decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt; board edges decoratively tooled in gilt; edges sprinkled red. Dark green silk ribbon bookmark. Read More...
The official printed letter of dedication of the one-act opera "Le devin du village" by the important Swiss-French philosopher and writer, who also wrote the libretto. In French, signed in brown ink “J. J. Rousseau,” one page, 8.5 x 11.75, no date [1752], addressed to Charles Pinot Duclos (1704-1772), a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and of the Academie Francaise and Rousseau's most constant friend among the men of letters. In fine condition, with expected document wear. Read More...
180. Rome, Harold. (1908–1993). "That's the Ticket" - Three Signed Songs, including an Autograph Musical Quotation of "I Shouldn't Love You"
New York: Crawford Music Corporation. 1948. Grouping of three signed and inscribed songs from the American composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theater. " I Shouldn't Love You," 2 pp., inscribed with an AMQS; "Take off the Coat," 3 pp.; "The Money Song," 6 pp. A few nicks to edges, corners bent, else fine. Read More...
Rare printed funeral invitation, Paris, [1868], inviting the unnamed recipient to be part of the convoy, service and burial of Gioacchino-Antonio Rossini at the Church of the Trinity on Saturday 21 November, asking to meet at the church at 11:30am. Printed with no manuscript insertions, black-edged mourning paper with integral blank, small split and a little dust-soiling, 4to. Read More...
Original drawing in brown ink, accomplished in the hand of the composer on paper with letterhead of the "Maison du Roi / Département des Beaux Arts", annotated in the hand of the Vicomte de Beauchesne [from the sale of his library]: «fait par Rossini, le 9 mars 1829». Together with a concert pass in the hand of the composer "Laissez passez 2 personnes. G. Rossini / A le 22." 16 x 19 cm.
Autograph letter to the Contessa Anna Maria Malvezzi, signed "G. Rossini." 1 page. 8vo. Bologna, 8 May, 1843. A letter of introduction and "supreme recommendation" on behalf of the Venetian composer and pianist Enrico Angeli (1820 - 1844) who studied with Thalberg and Sechter, and about whom Rossini wrote elewhere that he had "an Italian soul and German fingers." (Giovanni Masuttu, "I maestri di musica italiani del secolo xix: notizie biografiche," p. 206) A few creases, else fine.
Boldly penned AMQS on a large sheet removed from the autograph album of the Contessa Anna Maria Malvezzi. Two measures in C Major, inscribed to Malvezzi and signed "G. Rossini" in Bologna, 2 November, 1842. The verso of the page with an 8-measure AMQS to Malvezzi dated Ferrara, 6 December, 1842, being a passage from a work by Mercadante penned and signed by the baritone Pietro Balzar who himself created several leading Mercadente roles. Strip of paper along left edge of the recto, else fine. 27 x 18 cm.
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Autograph signature at the conclusion of a partial ALS from the highly important German composer and pianist whose distinctively lyrical musical language, especially evident in his keyboard works and art songs, made him one of the central figures of the German Romantic tradition. Read More...