Schubertiade :: [American Modernist] Antheil, George. (1900

[American Modernist] Antheil, George. (1900–1959)

Bad Boy of Music - Signed and Inscribed with Autograph Musical Quotation

Garden City: Doubleday Doran. 1945. Second printing. Signed presentation copy from the composer, inscribed: “For Tom (Monroe), One of the few and one of the best with admiration from his friend, George Antheil.” Antheil has added a three-measure AMQS from an unidentified composition as a part of his inscription. Very good copy with a bit of dust soiling and slight edge wear, without dust jacket.

The memoirs of the composer with much on his adventures in Paris in the 1920s with James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, etc. Thomas Monroe co-wrote the story for the Howard Hawks directed film, "Ball of Fire," starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. (6458)

AMQS Classical Music