"Music from the Ballet Spartacus" - SIGNED LP WITH AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION

Signed LP of the Soviet-Armenian composer's best-known work, Spartacus. On the back cover of the first recording of excerpts from the ballet, with the State Radio Orchestra of the USSR and Alexander Gauk, Khachaturian has boldly signed and penned a short musical quotation of two notes. Monitor Records MC 2025. Some light rubbing to the back cover, but overall in fine condition.

Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus is based on the historical figure Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War. Khachaturian composed Spartacus in 1954, and was awarded a Lenin Prize for the composition that same year. It was first staged at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad in 1956, with choreography by Leonid Yakobson, but had more success in a revised form performed at the Bol'shoy in Moscow in 1968. It remains one of Khachaturian's best-known works. (14791)

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Signed Document/Item

Classical Music

Dance

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