Twenty-Four Preludes - SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO LEO SMIT

Moscow: VOKS. 1945. Score of the important Russian pianist and composer's Twenty-four Preludes, op. 38, signed on the cover by the composer, dated January 16, 1946, and inscribed to Leo Smit, the composer, pianist, conductor, and educator whose career spanned seven decades of musical life in the United States. [PN] 18188. 73 pp. Toning throughout, especially to edges; title page partially detached; shelf wear; overall in very good condition. 8.5 x 11.5 inches (22 x 29 cm).

Dmitry Kabalevsky's Preludes, Op. 38 are a set of 24 piano pieces in the Chopinian model, each based on a folksong and each written in a different key. Composed in 1943–44, the set was dedicated to Nikolai Myaskovsky, Kabalevsky's teacher. It is one of a number of examples of music written in all 24 major and minor keys.

From the collection of Leo Smit (1921-1999). A friend and colleague of many of the most important musical figures of the twentieth century, Smit had close relationships with Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Shapero, William Schuman, Alex Haieff, Leopold Stokowski, and Lukas Foss, among others, and was a strong advocate and performer of contemporary music, as well as the composer of more than 100 works. (13304)

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