Original ca. 1910 printed postcard portrait of the composer conducting . Signed in the print lower right, a few light stains, else fine. No publisher information on the verso.
Very uncommon group of four letters from important French composer and conductor, one of the major innovators and forces in 20th century music. Addressed to Dr. Manfred Hubricht, the letters concern the arrangement of four performances of Wozzeck in Frankfurt. Each 1 page, two in French, two in German, dated 21 May to 26 November 1966. Sold together with an original photograph (17.5 x 13 cm) signed in black ink "P Boulez" and stamped by the photographer Jean-Marie Bottequin on the verso. Read More...
19. Boulez, Pierre. (1925–2016). "Improvisation sur Mallarmé " - Autograph Musical Quotation with Photograph
Very uncommon AMQS from important French composer and conductor, one of the major innovators and forces in 20th century music. 20.5 x 27.5 cm page inscribed beneath a mounted halftone photograph with three detailed measures of music with text, the opening measures of his 1957 work "Improvisation sur Mallarmé" for Soprano and 7 Instruments, beginning "le vierge, le vivace, et le bel aujourd'hui," signed "avec cordial sympathie / P. Boulez." Mounted to another sheet, else fine.
Very uncommon AMQS from important French composer and conductor, one of the major innovators and forces in 20th century music. 14.5 x 10.5 cm card signed and inscribed with a quotation from his 1965 "Le Soleil des eaux" for soprano, SATB chorus and orchestra. Sold together with an original 11 x 16 cm Clive Barda photograph, signed in black ink by the composer. Read More...
Very uncommon AMQS from important French composer and conductor, one of the major innovators and forces in 20th century music. 14.5 x 10.5 cm card signed and inscribed with a meticulously penned four-measure quotation from the first ("Fantastique - Modéré") of his 1945 Douze Notations for piano. Sold together with an original and very early doubleweight portrait of the composer by Blackstone and Shelburne of New York, contained in the photographer's original folder and stamped by them l.r.. Read More...
Graphically interesting complete March 4, 1971 program from a performance by the important French composer and conductor, leading the BBC Sympohony Orchestra in a Munich Pro Musica Meisterzyklus performance which included Debussy's La Mer, Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin," and Boulez's own "Eclat." The complete program has been signed by Boulez on his own full-page portrait photograph. In fine condition. Read More...
A heartfelt and moving ALS from the notorious demimondaine, the celebrated beautiful dancer who left the world of ballet for the Folies Bergere, was mistress to King Léopold II and was painted and celebrated by Lautrec, Muller and Klimt. 1 1/2 pp. 8vo. To the music critic Victorin de Joncières (1839-1903), dated "Mercredi 5 Juillet, 1899," on black-bordered mourning stationery. "...I have an immense sadness having lost my dear mother who I so loved; it is the most cruel bad fortune which could have befallen me..."
Santa Fe Dining Car printed menu, dated 3-21-51, signed in blue ink on the verso by the great American bon vivant, actor and pianist. A student of Schoenberg, he was a close friend and important promoter of George Gershwin and played the role of himself in the Gershwin biopic "Rhapsody in Blue." Creases, else fine.
Remarkable 1979 French souvenir program, boldly signed by three of the most influential figures in 20th century dance, each on their respective photograph pages. The program from a performance by Les Étoiles and Le Ballet de L'Opera of Paul Taylor's "Auréole," Balanchine's "Apollon Musagete" or "Le Bourgeouis Gentilhomme" and the premiere of Nureyev's "Manfred." The signatures to Conrad Josipovici, owner of Regine's Club in Paris and sold together with two letters describing the provenance. Balanchine has inscribed "To Conrad, King of the Night!"
A remarkable souvenir program from the Ballet Russe company formed in the wake of the dissolution of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes following his death in 1929. Orchestrated by the entrepreneur Colonel Wassily de Basil and billed as "Ballets Russes du Colonel W. de Basill ( De Monte Carlo)," the company's dancers were drawn largely from the Ballets de Leon Woizikowsky, augmented by artists from de Basil's own company, from Rene Blum's Ballets de Monte Carlo, and from Diaghilev's troupe. Read More...
Paris: Jules Tallandier. [1900]. 8vo. Piano-vocal score. 184 pp. Full crimson cloth with original front wrapper pasted to upper board, with the ownership signature to the upper right corner "Igor Stravinsky / Janvier 1923 / Paris." Browning throughout, approx. 20 pp with small tears or folds to margins/corners, else fine. Read More...
128. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791). Kantate. Heiliger siehgnädig hern. &c.... in Partitur. No 1 [Litanie de venerabili altarie sacramento, Anh. K. 125]
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel. [1807]. First printing. FIRST EDITION OF THE FULL SCORE with adapted text. Upright folio. Engraved throughout. [PN] 405. 26 pp. Scattered foxing, handling stains, generally very good. Bound in brown paper boards with handwritten title to front, dated 1807. Köchel[6] p. 748 and 772 (Anh. B KV 125 Nr. 1, 6, 7, 8); RISM M/MM 4109; Kat. Hoboken 12 Nr. 625. Read More...
63. Haydn, Joseph. (1732–1809). Andante con variazioni per il forte-piano / No. I [Hob XVII:12] - FROM AN ESTERHAZY COLLECTION
Vienne: Artaria. [1807]. First Edition. Oblong folio. 5 pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 1931. Worldcat records only 1 copy. Ownership signature "Everilda Esterhaz[y]" to the lower right corner of the titlepage, in the hand of Maria Anna Everilda Ursula Esterházy van Galántha (1791 - 1874), member of the of wealthy Esterházy family at whose remote estate Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician. A few small stains around the edges, else fine. Read More...
Paris: Benoit ainé. [1851]. Upright Folio. Three volumes bound as one, piano score only. Engraved. [PN] 36, 37, 38. 17, 17, 15 pp. Bound in speckled paper boards.
Early French editions of the original Piano Quartets, K. 493 & 478 as well as an early arrangement for Piano Quartet of the Quintet K. 452 with piano and brass. One of the first editions of the publisher Benoit in Paris, who began their publishing firm in the same year.
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Company in association with Universal Edition. 1959. 8vo. [i], ii-vi, [vii], 1-61 pp, including foldout excerpt of Stockhausen's Studie II and a spectrogram of Eimert's Glockenspiel. Fine binding of black and red leather with inset marbled paper abstractions, marbled endpages, the full journal issue bound in including front wrapper. A stunning and elaborate fine binding on an excellent first edition copy of this English version of the innovative music journal, edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen. A few nicks to binding, spine slightly rubbed, overall very fine. Read More...
2. Bach, Johann Michael. (1745 - 1820). Kurze und systematische Anleitung zum General-Bass, und der Tonkunst u?berhaupt, mit Exempeln erla?utert ...
Gedruckt zu Cassel: In der Waysenhaus-Buchdruckerey. 1780. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. (16 x 21 cm). [6], 47, [1] pages, including tables and musical examples. Handpainted period wrappers. Stained throughout around the upper right corner, mostly outside the margin, otherwise very good. Rare. Worldcat records 5 copies, of which only 2 in the United States. Read More...
12. Beethoven, Ludwig van. (1770–1827). VARIATIONS pour le PIANO FORTE composées et dédieés à son ami Oliva ...Oeuvre 76 [Six Variations on a Turkish March]
Vienne: Chez Artaria et Compag. [December, 1810]. First Viennese edition. Oblong folio. Title; 2- 7pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 2127. Scattered light foxing, corners slightly creased, else fine. Contained in a rather worn enclosure with stamped boards and a gilt leather titleplate. Read More...
11. Beethoven, Ludwig van. (1770–1827) [Hummel, Johann Nepomuk. (1778–1837)]. Septet, Op. 20, Grand Septuor de Louis van Beethoven arrangé pour le Pianoforte seul ou avec Accompagnement d'une Flûte, Violon et Violoncelle par J.N. Hummel, Maitre de Chapelle à Weimar et Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
Leipzig: C.F. Peters. [by 1829]. Upright folio. 31 pp. Engraved throughout. [PN] 1983. Piano part only. Kinsky p. 51, Nachdrücke "e." Outer edge with some bends and nicks, cover rather soiled, else fine throughout.
First German edition of the Hummel arrangement of the work originally composed for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass, clarinet, horn and bassoon.
64. Haydn, Joseph. (1732–1809). Trois Trios Concertans pour deux Violons et Violoncelle. Oeuvre 47. [Hob. XV: 8, 6 & 7]
Paris: Chez M. Boyer; Chez Mad.e. Le Menu. [1787]. Upright folio. Parts for violino primo, secondo and violoncelle, as arranged from the Hob. XV Piano Trios No. 21 in B flat major, No. 19 in F major, and No. 20 in D major. 13 pp; 11 pp; 7 pp. Engraved throughout. RISM H 4181. Hoboken V-Ang, p. 509.