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.
Vintage photograph by Morris Gordon of the important American jazz composer, bandleader and pianist playing as part of the 'hot-shot-a-day' program of youth builders and CDVO "to divert the energies of Harlem youth into useful channels" (clipped newspaper caption on verso). Stamped 1943 on the verso, stamps and tape on verso, edges worn, otherwise good.
A very large signed original photograph of the monumental environmental art installation. Valley Curtain, Installation View, 1970-72. Signed "Christo" in marker l.r. Color offset print on paper, image size 25 x 39 in., unmatted, unframed. Minor wear at corners, else fine. Will be shipped rolled.
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...
Photograph collage, no place, no date, but ca. 1920-30. 30.5 x 42 cm. Stamped monogram "BM" lower right. Verso with some stains and previous mounting tears and remnants, as well as unrelated signatures and a faint stamp "C 18", otherwise in fine condition. Read More...
New York: Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.. 1903. Sheet music, 13 1/2 x 10 3/4. 1903. 5 pp. Edges a little worn, lightly creased, period pen initials on inset photo, overall good. Read More...
102. Kander, John. (b. 1927). Typed Letter Signed, regarding his thoughts while writing songs
Typed letter on his personal stationary, signed in full at the conclusion in ballpoint ink by the American composer and lyricist. 1 p. No date, about "my thoughts when writing a song - presumably for a musical. Well, my frist and major concern is that the song sound like the characater I am writing for...In other words try to make the music and lyrics correspond to the way the character might express himself."
TLS. 1 page, with envelope of the NY Philhmaronic stamped 1968. To Dirk Nabering of the Gustav-Mahler-Gesellschaft in Berlin. In full: "This is a marvelous moment in Mahler-history. His name has become a magic one among audiences, especially among the young. And I am extremely proud that this month Columbia Records (CBS in Europe) is issuing my performances of all nine Symphonies in one beautiful album. It is a historic occasion! My greetings to you, in Mahler's name. (signed) Leonard Bernstein." Two-hole punch along left edge, else fine and sold together with the original envelope. Read More...
Two original approx. 8 x 10 inch photographs of the influential English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores who was also an important collector of English folk music and song. In the first, the composer is seen hunched over and reviewing a score in front of a stage, the conductor Malcolm Sargent seen to his left. The second image shows Vaughan William and Sargent seen from behind as they sit together reviewing an opened score. Both in fine condition, stamped on the verso by the photogapher Terry Rand.
Two land assessments from the middle years of Handel's long residence at 25 Brook Street in London, where the composer lived and worked from 1723 to the end of his life. Contemporaneous documents mentioning Handel are of the greatest rarity and these extraordinary documents provide considerable insight into the people who lived around the composer in the year (1746) that he wrote Judas Maccabeus and the Occasional Oratorio, and in the year (1747) that he wrote his oratorio 'Joshua' containing the original version of his famous chorus 'See the Conquering Hero Comes' written in celebration of the return of the Duke of Cumberland after the Battle of Culloden, and which Handel later incorporated into Judas Maccabeus. Both documents in very fine condition with expected light wear, details as follows: Read More...
9. Beethoven, Ludwig van. (1770–1827). Trois sonates pour le piano-forte avec accompagnement de violon ... par Louis van Beethoven. Oeuvre 30.
Paris: Janet et Cotelle.. [1828]. Upright folio. Livraison I - III: three volumes bound together in blue marbled boards. Lacking violin part. Engraved throughout. [PN] 1118, 1119, 1120. Blue marbled boards. First and second title pages present but separated, signatures a little loose generally, a few creased pages, generally very good otherwise.
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.
197. [Thoroughbass Manual] Kellner, David . (ca. 1670-1748). Treulicher Unterricht im General-Bass, worinnen alle Weitläuftigkeit vermieden, und dennoch gantz deutlich und umständlich vielerley neuerfundene Vortheile an die Hand gegeben werden, vermöge welcher einer in kurtzer Zeit alles, was zu dieser Wissenschafft gehöret, sattsam begreifen kann...Mit einer Vorrede des Herrn Daniel Solanders...Vierte Auflage. [Popular Eighteenth-Century Thoroughbass Manual]
Hamburg: Zu finden bey Christian Herolds sel. Wittwe. 1767. Fourth edition (first published in 1732).. Small quarto (8.4375 x 7 inches; 214 x 179 mm.). [6], 98, [6, "Register"] pages (signature collation: )(3 A-N4). Two large engraved diagrams (on pages 6 and 60) and two smaller woodcut diagrams (on pages 58 and 73) in the text. The wheel for the volvelle on page 6, depicting the "circle of fifths," is lacking (no volvelle wheels called for on pages 58, 60, and 73). Woodcut musical notation. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Read More...
New York: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1922. Three separate scores, 12.25"x9.25" each, all with blue paper cover with orange print. Individual works are as follows: Read More...
London: William Heinemann. 1910. 4to, 218 pp., 20 mounted colour plates by Maurice Lalau, decorated initials to each chapter, fore-edge uncut, blue cloth decorated in white and gilt. Scattered foxing, some abrasion of the cloth, spine faded, slight tears at head. A most wonderful signed copy from the supreme Norwegian soprano so closely associated with the role of Isolde, inscribed on the front endpaper "Sybil Sassoon - Kindest greetings from "Isolde", Kirsten Flagstad, Feb 19th 1948." Together with two brief letters from Flagstad to Sybil Sassoon who had seen the performance at Covent Garden, saying that she will sign the book if it can be left at her hotel, and then requesting that she may be able to look through the book for a few days "as it is so lovely." And with the complete Covent Garden program. Read More...