Printed card reading "Mr. Cole Porter Sends His Appreciative Thanks For Your Kind Thought of Him", secretarially inscribed below in blue ink "He thanks you for your letter and lovely card. (He is quite ill)." Together with the envelope postmarked Dec 13, 1961, New York, NY. Fine.
Signed cabinet card photograph of composer by Guigoni & Boss of Milan, signed and dated by the composer "Giacomo Puccini/ Torre del Lago Agosto 03." 14.2 x 10.1 cm. Albumen print mounted on board with photographer's marks. Old glue from old frame on recto (could be matted out of sight), a few smallspots and abrasions, including one on the handwritten year lower right, else fine.
Boldly penned autograph signature “S. Rachmaninoff" on a light pink autograph album page. 15.3 x 11.3 cm. A crisp and very fine example. Together with a vintage postcard portrait photograph.
Christmas card signed with a long message, “Joe Lamb”. The first autograph we’ve seen of the great ragtime composer, a collaborator of Scott Joplin, and creator of several standards including The American Beauty Rag and Excelsior. Lamb was one of the “big three” comprised of James Scott, Scott Joplin and himself, the only non-African American. Punch holes at the top of the card, not affecting writing, and original envelope, autograph name and address. Read More...
New York: Famous Music Corporation. 1935. Vintage sheet music boldly signed in black ink by the important American composer. 5 pp. Fine condition. Read More...
Chicago: Lyon and Healy. 1867. Oblong sheet music, string bound with highly amusing printed wrappers depicting a very rowdy battle being waged within an orchestra, violins and trombones being wielded as bludgeons, a basson being rammed down someone's throat, a cello slammed over someone's head etc. etc. Edges tattered, pages toned.
1957 Orquestra Sinfonica de Madrid broadside illustrated with a printed Picasso caricature of Rubinstein, boldly signed by the great pianist "Arthur Rubinstein." Horizontal crease, else in fine condition. 4 pp. 16 x 22 cm [6.25 x 8.5 inches].
Boldly penned autograph signature on a trimmed calendar page printed with the date of the violinist-composer's birthday, March 10. Mounted to an album page, glue remnants around the edges, otherwise fine and sold together with a vintage postcard photograph.
Original signed photograph of the Austrian/American pianist whose Schubert and Beethoven recordings are beyond compare. Matte-finish 3.25 x 5.25 real photo postcard of Schnabel, signed at the bottom in black ink, “Artur Schnabel, 1-Febr-1912.” A few edge dings and silvering to dark areas of the image, otherwise fine condition. Originates from the collection of American violinist and pianist Louis Persinger (1887–1966), who trained at the Leipzig Conservatory and later taught at Juilliard, mentoring the likes of Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci, and Isaac Stern. Read More...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover biography of the Austrian/American pianist whose Schubert and Beethoven recordings are beyond compare. Inscribed by the author on the f.f.e. "This book is for 'Fritz' / one of the best sports alive! César Saerchinger." 354 pp. Scattered foxing, dj chipped around the edges, overall very good.
The author was a well-known broadcast correspondent for CBS and NBC.
Bold autograph signature in brown ink "Clara Schumann / Leipzig / Marz 89" on a card measuring 5.5 x 3.5 inches. A few small mounting remnants around the edges, else fine. Together with a pristine portrait by H. Prothmann of Konigsberg of the German pianist and composer, wife of Robert Schumann and famous muse of Johannes Brahms. In very fine condition. 6.5 x 10.5 cm.
156. Schumann, Robert. (1810–1856). Frauenliebe und Leben von Adalbert von Chamisso. Acht Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. [...] Op. 42.
Leipzig: F. Whistling. [1855]. First Edition. Upright folio, engraved (title lithographed). [PN] 300, 23 pp. Title with elaborate border, in fine condition throughout. Hofmann, p. 98f.; McCorkle, p. 187f. First edition, with the double-pagination for the individual issues. Read More...
Vintage 3.5 x 5.5 three-quarter length postcard portrait photo of Sousa in his band uniform, signed vertically in fountain pen, “John Philip Sousa, 1911." In fine condition, nicely matted and framed to 7.25 x 8.75 inches overall. It's his 160th birthday year!
Attractive early signed lithograph portrait of the great composer, boldly signed and inscribed to the pianist and conductor Liborius Hauptmann (Pacific Salon Orchestra) and dated Wien 15.5.24. 15 x 26 cm (6 x 10 inches), in very fine condition, nicely matted and framed to 28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches). Read More...
159. Stravinsky, Igor. (1882–1971). Abraham and Isaac: A Sacred Ballad for Baritone and Chamber Orchestra - Inscribed to George Perle
London: Boosey & Hawkes. 1965. Vocal Score. Upright folio. Printed wrapper, English title page, Hebrew title page, English & Hebrew text, instrumentation, pp. 1-19. [PN] B&H 19162. 9 x 12 inches. Inscribed on first page of score in red ink "To George Perle / A souvenir / From Stravinsky / Aug. 7 1965." Pencil correction on first page of score. In fine condition. Read More...
Exceptional vintage oblong postcard photograph of the composer, inscribed in fountain pen "Jolly Holidays for you, dear Mr. Copley, Yours very sincerely, I.Str., Paris, Dec. 37."
Bold autograph pencil signature from the composer on the same page with an ink autograph of the violinist who toured with Stravinsky and for whom Stravinsky wrote his Violin Concerto (1931) and the Duo Concertante (1932).
Autograph Signature of the British composer best known for his collaborations on more than a dozen classic comic operas with librettist W. S. Gilbert. A clipped signature from the conclusion of a letter: "I shall be home next week yrs sincerely Arthur Sullivan." Laid down to a card measuring 14 x 6 cm. Fine, together with a modern reproduction portrait.