[Coolidge Festival] Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague. (1864–1953) & Roosevelt, Nicholas. (1893–1982) & Kortschak, Hugo. (1884–1957) & Dohnanyi, Erno. (1877–1960) & Lübbecke-Job, Emma. (1888–1982) & Roth Quartet. (1922–1969)
Group of Autograph Signatures
An interesting page of autograph signatures, collected at the Coolidge Festival of Music in Budapest on October 16–17, 1931. The signatures include patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, U.S. minister to Hungary Nicholas Roosevelt, Austrian-born American violinist Hugo Kortschak, Hungarian composer Erno Dohnányi, pianist Emma Lübbecke-Job, the members of the Roth Quartet (Feri Roth, Jeno Antal, Ferenc Molnar, and Albert van Doorn), and several others. Toning; overall in fine condition. 8 x 12 inches (21 x 31 cm).Already active for many years as a musical patron, especially of chamber music and contemporary composers, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge began in the early 1930's to sponsor festivals in the United States and abroad. Alfredo Casella described traveling to one of these festivals with the formidable Coolidge: "The arrival at the hotel of that tall, spectacled lady, followed by a retinue of twenty or thirty persons, most of them armed with musical instruments, was impossibly funny. The hotel was thus taken by assault by the cosmopolitan company, which was looked on with a certain amazement by other travelers who were not part of it." (See Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, p. 193.) (15571)
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