223. Stravinsky, Igor. (1882–1971). Cantata on Anonymous XVth-XVIth Century English Lyrics for Soprano, Tenor, Female Chorus and a small Instrumental Ensemble
London: Boosey & Hawkes. [after 1952]. Second edition, later printing. Piano-vocal score. 32 pp. [PN] 17247. de Lerma C4, p. 13. Attractive illustrated wrappers printed in red. Small abrasion to upper right corner, else fine throughout.
Stravinsky's Cantata was written not long after the completion of the composer's final, and greatest, opera, The Rake's Progress (1948 - 51). The text comes from four anonymous, secular English lyrics from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Exceptional vintage 7 x 5 inch original Lipnitzki of Paris photograph of the composer at the piano, inscribed in fountain pen and signed “I. Stravinsky.” Mounted to a cardstock backing, in fine condition, with photographer’s stamp to lower right corner.
Pen and ink on paper. 50.5 x 32.8 cm. Signed and inscribed lower right "Souvenir du Sacre / en Hommage à Igor Stravinsky / André Masson." Undated. Archivally mounted and set in a hand-carved continuous edge ebony frame to approx. 88 x 73 cm overall. Read More...
Vintage glossy photograph signed and inscribed by all four members of the quartet who performed together for 40 years without a change in personnel, a record exceeded only by the Beethoven Quartet. Stamped on the verso by the photographer, Werner Neumeister. 24 x 17.5 cm. Very fine.
Vintage glossy photograph of the great Quartet, boldly signed by all four members: Joseph Roisman, Alexander Schneider, Boris Kroyt, and Mischa Schneider. In very fine condition. 14.5 x 10 cm.
Original snapshot photograph of the legendary quartet, stamped on the verso by the photographer, "'Magna Print' / Will R. Rose." Apparently an unpublished image. 10.2 x 7 cm. Together with three other vintage snapshots of Goesta Andreasson (1894 - 1982), second violinist for the Busch Quartet from 1919 to 1943, one of his wife and one of his son, violinist Bjorn Andreasson. Read More...
Vintage photograph of the Spanish quartet, founded in Madrid in 1945 and one of the most influential Spanish chamber music ensembles. 11.5 x 17.5 cm. Fine.
A superb original 1917 signed oversize Apeda of New York photograph of the important string quartet. Inscribed in fountain pen ink: "To Mr. Henry E. Vogels with kindest regards, New York, Feb. 1916. 'The Flonzaley Quartet.'" Each member of the quartet has then signed beneath the image: Adolfo Betti, Alfred Pochon, Ugo Ara, Iwan d'Archambeau. 34.5 x 41.5 cm. The largest one of them we've seen! Read More...
An unusual program from a Buenos Aires performance by the great Hungarian quartet, the first to record the complete Beethoven Quartets. In very good condition.
Signed photograph page removed from a 1924 program, signed by the original members of the great Hungarian quartet, the first to record the complete Beethoven Quartets. Signed by Jeno Lener, Joseph Smilovits (2nd violin), Sandor Roth (viola), and Imre Hartmann (cello). Rare.
Vintage photograph of the English quartet, founded in London in 1908, signed by John Pennington (1927 - 1934), Thomas W. Petre (1908 -16; 1919 - 34), Harry Waldo Warner (1908 - 1930) and Charles Warwick Evans (1908 - 1934). 19.5 x 15 cm. Mounted to a slightly larger backing, else fine.
Mounted original photograph of the celebrated French string quartet (Alfred Lowenguth, Roger Lowenguth, Roger Roche, Jacques Gotkovsky) signed on the mount by each member and inscribed in French to Mr. and Mrs. B. Newhall, Rochester 12/11/62. 25 x 32.5 cm.
Beaumont Newhall served as curator of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, from 1948 to 1958, and as director from 1958 to 1971.
Sherman Oaks, CA: Alfred Publishing Co. . 1980. Softcover volume, signed and inscribed in red ink on the title page by the virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator, founder of the Paganini Quartet in 1946. 272 pp. Lower half of front cover a little creased, else fine.
Vintage 1953 10 x 8 inch photograph of the quartet.
Founded by its first violinist, Henri Temianka, in 1946, the quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari, had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini.
Vintage glossy concert broadside photograph signed in fountain pen ink by all four players at an appearance at Harvard Sanders Theatre in 1956. A few corner creases, else fine. Uncommon.
Founded by its first violinist, Henri Temianka, in 1946, the quartet drew its name from the fact that all four of its instruments, made by Antonio Stradivari, had once been owned by the great Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini.
Rare set of autograph signatures on an album page of the four original members of the great Hungarian quartet, which premiered many important modern works, inbcluding quartets by Prokofiev and Korngold. Signed by Feri Roth, Jeno Antal, Ferenc Molnar, and Albert van Doorn. Affixed below the photograph to a complete publicity booklet issued in 1928 shortly before van Doorn was replaced by Janos Scholz. Rare.