{"product_id":"26308-orff-carl-lilo-gersdorf-carl-orff-signed-and-inscribed","title":"Orff, Carl. (1895–1982) Lilo Gersdorf, \"Carl Orff\" (rowohlts monographien) - Signed and Inscribed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eLilo Gersdorf's \u003c\/span\u003eillustrated paperback monograph on the composer, signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper in blue ink: \"Herzlichen Gruss \/ C. O.\" \u003ci\u003e(Warm greetings, C. O.)\u003c\/i\u003e. The book appeared in 1981, so the inscription dates from the composer's last months. Small 8vo. 151 pp. Light wear to edges, light foxing, overall very good. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eProvenance: Private Collection, CT (ex-Peisach Estate).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recipient, Hermann Emanuel Peisach (1900–1990), was born in Munich five years after Orff, and in the same city. A sales agent, he married Henriette (\"Henny\") Bernheim in 1937, and that autumn the couple emigrated via Rome to the United States, settling in Norwalk, Connecticut. Henriette's mother, Rosa Bernheim, was deported from Munich in November 1941 and murdered at Kaunas. Orff's correspondence with Peisach runs from 1958 until the composer's death in 1982, by which time the two families addressed one another with the familiar \"Du.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLilo Gersdorf (1924–2009) studied Protestant church music in Stuttgart. She worked as an organist and cantor and trained as a piano teacher. From 1963 to 1967, she worked as an editor for the music publishing house Edition Modern in Munich. Concurrently, she studied musicology, art history, and historical auxiliary sciences at Ludwig Maximilian University. From 1967 onwards, she taught music history, ethnomusicology, organology, musical form, and piano (and harpsichord) at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg; within the Institute’s \"English Special Course,\" she also taught piano improvisation, early keyboard music, and piano music for children. She was appointed Associate Professor in 1984 and Full Professor in 1985, retiring in 1987. Lilo Gersdorf was a long-standing representative of the musicology department at the Orff Institute and an editor of \u003ci\u003eOrff-Schulwerk-Informationen\u003c\/i\u003e. Her publications include works on Carl Orff’s pedagogical approach and the dissertation \"Marie-Angélique Diderot und die ‘Leçons de Clavecin et Principes d'Harmonie’ von Anton Bemetzrieder. Paris 1771\" (unpublished, Salzburg 1992).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62886784303263,"sku":"26308","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Orff_Carl._1895_1982_LiloGersdorf_CarlOrff_-26308e.png?v=1791658061","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/26308-orff-carl-lilo-gersdorf-carl-orff-signed-and-inscribed","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}