American Conductor Composer (29 results)
Leonard Bernstein
Peyser, Joan [Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive world-wide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."]
Published by Published by Bantam Press A Division of Transworld Publishers, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London First Edition . 1987., 1987
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 430 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Dusty page edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not pric…e clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].
Leonard Bernstein
Peyser, Joan [Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."]
Published by Published by Bantam Press A Division of Transworld Publishers, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London First Edition . 1987., 1987
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 430 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unused new book.…Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0593014545 MUSIC [Classical].
The Infinite Variety of Music
Bernstein, Leonard [Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive world-wide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."]
Published by Published by Simon and Schuster, Rockefeller Center, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York Book Club Edition . 1966., 1966
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Book Club edition hard back binding in publisher's original striking red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 287 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear to the top… front gutter, spine sun faded. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].
Published by 1971., 1971
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. - 6 bars of "String Quartet in D" penned on a 12-1/2 inch high by 9-1/4 inch wide sheet of ruled music paper, inscribed and signed below the music: "For ., / With the best wishes of the composer, / Richard Bales / 7/26/71". The top corners of the music paper are lightly creased. The sheet has been folded tw…ice for mailing & there is slight creasing to & 2 tiny chips out of the margins at the folds. Very good.
THEODORE BLOOMFIELD (1923-98) amerikanischer Dirigent und Komponist, Generalmusikdirektor der Oper Frankfurt, von 1975 bis 1982 leitete er das Berliner Symphonische Orchester. 1976 erhielt Bloomfield den Deutschen Kritikerpreis. / american conductor and composer
THEODORE BLOOMFIELD (1923-98) amerikanischer Dirigent und Komponist, Generalmusikdirektor der Oper Frankfurt, von 1975 bis 1982 leitete er das Berliner Symphonische Orchester. 1976 erhielt Bloomfield den Deutschen Kritikerpreis. / american conductor and composer
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Add to basketGedrucktes Porträt mit nebenstehender Kurzbiographie, eigenhändig signiert, 16°.
LORIN MAAZEL (1930-2014) amerikanischer Dirigent und Komponist / american conductor and composer
LORIN MAAZEL (1930-2014) amerikanischer Dirigent und Komponist / american conductor and composer
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Add to basketKonzertprogramm (8 to) des RSO Berlin 1967 mit Unterschrift und Unterschrift des bulgarischen Tenor Margarita Lilowa (1935) (dito : Großes Porträtfoto 8° quer, beim dirigieren, eigenhändig signiert, mit Kurzbiografie Euro 60,-) (dito : s/w-Fotoporträtpostkarte, eigenhändig signiert Euro 48,-).
More imagesLorin Maazel (1930-2014) - Signed page 1988 + Photo
Lorin Maazel (1930-2014) - American conductor, violinist and composer
Language: French
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Add to basketPas de couverture. Condition: Assez bon. Rare - Album page signed in person in Paris in 1988. + Photo 15x15 cm (recent print). Size : 20.5x14.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.
Published by Geneva, Ad. Henn, 1917., 1917
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Add to basketOblong 4to. 19 pp. Original wrappers. First edition, inscribed "pour Madame René Auberjonois, en grande sympathie, Igor Strawinsky, Morges 17-IX-17". - The present volume constitutes an impressive document of Stravinsky's life during the October Revolution. A composition for his children, this work was penned in 1914/15, shortly… after leaving Russia forever and settling down into Swiss exile, all connections to his Russian homeland having been severed by the Great War. The events of the war also meant that Stravinsky was unable to solicit commissions, receive royalties, or even contact his publishers; his collaboration with Djaghilev had more or less ground to a halt, their tour having returned hardly any profit. It was at this time that Stravinsky had to rely upon the generosity of wealthy Swiss patrons such as Madame Auberjonois, who was the first wife of the post-Impressionist Swiss painter René Auberjonois, mother of author Fernand Auberjonois, and later grandmother of the American actor René Murat Auberjonois. Stravinsky had met René Auberjonois in the fall of 1917, during the planning stages of "Histoire du Soldat", and he later became an important acquaintance of Stravinsky's. The present copy must have been presented during the early years of their friendship.
Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012) - Signed photo
Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012) - American film score composer and conductor
Language: French
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Add to basketPas de couverture. Condition: Très bon. Authentic signed large photo. Size : 20x25 cm. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.
More imagesStanislaw Skrowaczewski (1923-2017) - Signed card + Photo - 1998
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1923-2017) - Polish-American classical conductor and composer
Language: French
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Add to basketPas de couverture. Condition: Très bon. Rare - Card signed in June 1998. + Large photo 20x25 cm (recent print). Size : 10x15 cm. Condition : please see scans. Provenance : PhP Autographs collection. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.
ROGER NEILL (1963) US-amerikanischer Filmkomponist / American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, guitarist and educator. He is best known for his scores for the films 20th Century Women, Don't Think Twice, and Beginners.
ROGER NEILL (1963) US-amerikanischer Filmkomponist / American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, guitarist and educator. He is best known for his scores for the films 20th Century Women, Don't Think Twice, and Beginners.
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Add to basketSTRING QUARTET IN FOUR MOVEMENTS Notes on the RETROFLEXIVE CANON Partitur (23 SS. Pb. 4 to, in Klarsichtmappe mit Spiralheftung), auf dem Titelblatt mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Unterschrift signiert For Frau Streicher, ROGER NEILL.
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Add to basket12mo (99 x 78 mm). Black ink on cardboard. With a minimal stain and a pinch fold to the lower right margin.
Signed program of the Essen Philharmoniker 5. Sinfoniekonzert" by Tan Dun.
Tan Dun, Chinese: / , Pinyin Tán Dùn, Chinese-born American composer and conductor (born 1957).
Published by Essen, 17. I. 1999., 1999
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Add to basket4to. Program of the 5th symphony concert by Tan Dun at the Saalbau, Großer Saal Essen. Signed and inscribed by the composer To my music friend". They performed Orchestral Theatre I-III" the premiere of the Gesamtzyklus". A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences,…a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and music. Having collaborated with leading orchestras around the world, Tan is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Grawemeyer Award for his opera Marco Polo (1996) and both an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). His oeuvre as a whole includes operas, orchestral, vocal, chamber, solo and film scores, as well as genres that Tan terms "organic music" and "music ritual."Born in Hunan, China, Tan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and received musical education from the Central Conservatory of Music. His early influences included both Chinese music and 20th-century classical music. Since receiving a DMA from Columbia University in 1993, Tan has been based in New York City. His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and ritual performance.
Published by [Mailand, November/December 1953]., 1953
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Add to basket145 x 103 mm. Taken at time when Maria Callas conquered La Scala. The picture was shot by Erio Piccagliani, who served as the opera's in-house photographer for more than thirty years.
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Add to basketOblong-4to. 1 p. 208 : 147 mm. Bold autograph signature beneath a short musical quotation in treble clef, comprising a brief melodic fragment in a key of three sharps. Although too abbreviated to permit a secure identification of the source, the notation is characteristic of the composer's practice of accompanying his signature…with a few bars from one of his celebrated scores. Such signed musical quotations are considerably scarcer than ordinary signatures and are especially sought after by collectors of film music.Condition: In excellent condition. - Williams career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinema history. He has a distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex orchestration.[7] He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nominated person, after Walt Disney,[a] and is the oldest Academy Award nominee in any category, at 91 years old when nominated.
Published by Paris, 2. II. 1936., 1936
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Add to basketOblong 8vo (100 x 160 mm). 1 page. 3 bars on two staves of the solo piano part from the third movement of his "Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments", written in 1923/24 and revised in 1950. The concerto was to prove one of Stravinsky's most important works of the 1920s, by virtue of the fact that he played it almost everywher…e he went. It therefore became the one genuinely modern score of his that was widely known in that decade. The music is notated on staves drawn by Stravinsky on a blank sheet. For this purpose, the composer used "a certain instrument with little wheels invented by him for drawing the stave lines" (C. F. Ramuz, Souvenirs sur I. Stravinsky, 1946, p. 77). - Minor creasing and a few light marks.
Published by Rome, 23. II. 1923., 1923
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Add to basket160 x 235 mm (photograph). Mounted on cardboard backing bearing the inscription and signature (250 x 350 mm). To his friend Osio: "Ricordo al amico Osio e alla villetta". - Cardboard somewhat spotted; inscription slightly faded.
Signed head and shoulders half-profile photograph.
Tan Dun, Chinese: / , Pinyin Tán Dùn, Chinese-born American composer and conductor (born 1957).
Published by no place, 26. I. 2000., 2000
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Add to basket127 : 185 mm. A nice head and shoulders half-profile photograph signed in in silver ink.A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and music. Having collaborated with leading orchestras around the world, Tan is the rec…ipient of numerous awards, including a Grawemeyer Award for his opera Marco Polo (1996) and both an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). His oeuvre as a whole includes operas, orchestral, vocal, chamber, solo and film scores, as well as genres that Tan terms "organic music" and "music ritual."Born in Hunan, China, Tan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and received musical education from the Central Conservatory of Music. His early influences included both Chinese music and 20th-century classical music. Since receiving a DMA from Columbia University in 1993, Tan has been based in New York City. His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and ritual performance.
Signed head and shoulders half-profile photograph.
Tan Dun, Chinese: / , Pinyin Tán Dùn, Chinese-born American composer and conductor (born 1957).
Published by no place, 26. I. 2000., 2000
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Add to basket127 : 185 mm. A nice head and shoulders half-profile photograph signed in in silver ink.A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and music. Having collaborated with leading orchestras around the world, Tan is the rec…ipient of numerous awards, including a Grawemeyer Award for his opera Marco Polo (1996) and both an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). His oeuvre as a whole includes operas, orchestral, vocal, chamber, solo and film scores, as well as genres that Tan terms "organic music" and "music ritual."Born in Hunan, China, Tan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and received musical education from the Central Conservatory of Music. His early influences included both Chinese music and 20th-century classical music. Since receiving a DMA from Columbia University in 1993, Tan has been based in New York City. His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and ritual performance.
Autograph musical quotation signed together with a signed original photograph nicely presented in a folding card.
Tan Dun, Chinese: / , Pinyin Tán Dùn, Chinese-born American composer and conductor (born 1957).
Published by Essen, 15. I. 1999., 1999
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Add to basket8vo. 2 pp. An original head and shoulders photograph of the composer, signed and dated by the Tan Dun during a visit to Essen (26.1.2000) mounted loosly with an autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed from his work Orchestral Theatre I-III., which was premiered in Essen that date, Jan. 15, 1999. Rare in that format. A l…eading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and music. Having collaborated with leading orchestras around the world, Tan is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Grawemeyer Award for his opera Marco Polo (1996) and both an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). His oeuvre as a whole includes operas, orchestral, vocal, chamber, solo and film scores, as well as genres that Tan terms "organic music" and "music ritual."Born in Hunan, China, Tan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and received musical education from the Central Conservatory of Music. His early influences included both Chinese music and 20th-century classical music. Since receiving a DMA from Columbia University in 1993, Tan has been based in New York City. His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and ritual performance.
Signed head and shoulders half-profile photograph.
Tan Dun, Chinese: / , Pinyin Tán Dùn, Chinese-born American composer and conductor (born 1957).
Published by no place, 26. I. 2000., 2000
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Add to basket127 : 185 mm. A nice head and shoulders half-profile photograph signed in in silver ink.A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a dichotomy which has shaped much of his life and music. Having collaborated with leading orchestras around the world, Tan is the rec…ipient of numerous awards, including a Grawemeyer Award for his opera Marco Polo (1996) and both an Academy Award and Grammy Award for his film score in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). His oeuvre as a whole includes operas, orchestral, vocal, chamber, solo and film scores, as well as genres that Tan terms "organic music" and "music ritual."Born in Hunan, China, Tan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and received musical education from the Central Conservatory of Music. His early influences included both Chinese music and 20th-century classical music. Since receiving a DMA from Columbia University in 1993, Tan has been based in New York City. His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and ritual performance.
More imagesPublished by Morges, Garches, Biarritz, 1915-1920, 1920
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Add to basketGr.-4to. und 8vo. 12 pp. Important correspondence with Alfred Pochon (1878-1959), a Swiss violinist and member of the New York-based Flonzaley Quartet, concerning the first performance of Strawinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet, K19 in 1915 and the commission, composition, and premiere of his Concertino for String Quartet,…K35 between 1919 and 1922. The earliest postcard of the correspondence from 29. Mai 1915 is an invitation for dinner in Strawinsky's house in Morges. Strawinsky asks Pochon to bring the sheet music of the string quartet so that they can look at it together. This was only weeks after the not very successful premiere of the composition in Paris on 13 or 19 May 1915 by an ensemble surrounding Darius Milhaud. Pochon's Flonzaley Quartet first performed the composition on 8 November 1915 in Chicago, a few months after the proposed meeting. On 25 January 1917, Strawinsky wrote another postcard from Morges, asking Pochon to give "all of the material (sheet music for the ensemble and parts)" to Edward Bernays, his representative in America. Strawinsky thought "that this affair had been settled for a long time" and thanks Pochon for "taking care of the numerous proofs" of his quartet. Before 1918, the sheet music for the Three Pieces for String Quartet only circulated in manuscript-form. Although Strawinsky considered dedicating the second piece to Pochon, who had originally suggested the composition to him, he ultimately decided against it. Strawinsky's connection to the journalist, press agent, and theorist Edward Bernays (1891-1995), who is considered to be the father of public relations, was previously unknown. He certainly knew Bernays through Sergei Diaghilev who had hired Bernays as a press agent for his Ballets Russes on their American tours. - The larger part of the correspondence, stretching from 1919-22, concerns the Concertino for String Quartet that was commissioned by Alfred Pochon on behalf of the Flonzaley Quartet in a letter dated 17 August 1919. On 1 September 1919, Strawinsky responded to the request, accepting an offer of 500$ for "composing something" for the quartet and the exclusive performance rights for the United States for at least 1 year or until the publication. The piece should be dedicated to the musicians of the quartet and the American banker and collector André de Coppet. Strawinsky also gives condolences for the death of Pochon's infant son and thanks him for his "interest in the difficult situation" that him and his family found themselves in, "thanks to the war and the revolution" in Russia. In a curious remark, Strawinsky stresses that he has "always considered the exchange of musical production (like any other production) for money to be an entirely natural thing", thus explaining the "somewhat 'business-like' character" of his letter. - Over four months went by until Strawinsky responded to a letter from 14 October 1919 with apologies for his "long silence" and the reaffirmation of his "promise to compose a piece [une musique]" for Pochon's "marvelous ensemble", reassuring him: "Not only do I constantly think about it but I'm also, from time to time, accumulating material, bringing to paper some things that come to me 'through the ears', 'through the fingers', through the head". What he lacked was time but he announces to work on the composition during the summer. Strawinsky then addresses a "somewhat delicate subject", asking Pochon to pay the agreed-upon sum already, given his difficult financial situation following the Russian revolution: "I'm the only support not only of my own family but also of that of my sister who came here without any means of subsistence and of relatives that are very close to me and my wife who come from Russia one after the other [.]". In a short postscript, he agrees to extend the performance rights for the composition to all countries. (Morges, 25.02.1919). - On 3 May 1920, Strawinsky announces the reception of the sum and his plans to move to Italy, first Positano and then Rome, in order to safe expenses. He also mentions his departure to Paris for the premiere of Pulcinella by the Ballets Russes at the Paris Opera and invites Ponchon to visit him in Positano, where he plans to work on the quartet. - While the plans to move to Italy never materialized, Strawinsky did start the composition in the late summer of 1920. On 16 September 1920, he wrote a postcard from Coco Chanel's villa in Garches near Paris to schedule a meeting in Paris. Strawinsky explains: "I'm living temporarily in the house of a friend who offered her villa to me until I find accommodation, which is very difficult here". In two short postscripts he adds: "My children thank you in any case for the post stamps, the craze of which has not yet ebbed for them" and, more importantly: "The composition of the quartet is in full swing [bat son plein]". - Strawinsky completed the piece on 24 September and it was first performed on 3 November 1920 by the Flonzaley Quartet in New York. Strawinsky's first letter following the premiere didn't touch upon it, rather discussing a potential publication deal with the New York based publisher G. Schirmer. It seems that Schirmer's "new proposition" didn't include the Concertino, considering Strawinsky's somewhat cryptic remark: "I expected the answer with respect to the Concertino", which is also the first time that the title Concertino appears in the correspondence. Strawinsky does, however, accept an alternative deal with the demand of three changes to the contract: "I. I will gladly compose 3 small pieces for piano but without guarantee that they will be based on 'Russian folk-lore', I cannot do such a thing on command. - II. Instead of 5 little pieces for voice and piano, I propose to him to compose the same number of small pieces for flute and piano or violin and piano or flute and violin or two violins (something that I have wanted to do for a long time). - III. For the payment (for the 10 small piec.
More imagesPublished by Garches, no year
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Add to basketOblong-32mo. 2 pp. Pencil. Addressed to Alfred Pochon (1878-1959), a Swiss violinist and member of the New York-based Flonzaley Quartet, concerning the first performance of Strawinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet, K19 in 1915 and the commission, composition, and premiere of his Concertino for String Quartet, K35 between 191…9 and 1922. IGOR STRAWINSKY prie M. Pochon de ne pas oublier qu'il l'attend avec ses collegues à son attelier (22, rue Roche chouard) à 9 heurs du soire pas plus tard car à 10 1/2 il doit prendre le train pour rentrer à Garches".
More imagesPublished by Paris, 11. VI. 1937., 1937
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Add to basket4to. 1 p. With an autograph envelope. Charming letter in French and German to the silent film star Dagmar Godowsky, thanking her for a "pharmaceutical package" and informing her about a conversation with her brother and his imminent departure for Lake Geneva: "Mille merci de votre envoi pharmaceutique votre frère avec lequel j'a…i eu eine telephonische conversation reste ici 2, 3 jours et moi qui pars aujourd'hui au Lac de Genève pour 3 jours (afin de décider pour l'été). En toute hâte. Mille meilleures choses à vous, chère amie, küsse die Hand". Above the text, Stravinsky adds in German that he is in sufficient health: "Gesundheit Got [!] sei bedankt ganz gut". - In her memoir, Dagmar Godowsky (1897-1975) named Stravinsky as one of her great lovers. Little is known of the relationship, but the letter bears beautiful testimony to Stravinsky's familiarity with the actress. Her younger brother Leopold Godowsky Jr. was a violinist and chemist who, together with Leopold Mannes, created the first practical colour transparency film, Kodachrome. - Traces of folds. With tears to the folds and minimal browning.
Published by Paris, 30. VI. 1928., 1928
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, AustriaAntiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH
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Add to basket4to. 1 page, watermarked 'Victory Extra Strong'. Written in pencil. A note for a hasty departure and a missed luncheon, addressed to "Monsieur Paris" and signed by Strawinsky. Strawinsky writes to ask that matters of sums and business be sent "à la Maison Pleyel". Somewhat unusually, while in Paris Strawinsky earned extra income… by writing arrangements for the piano design company Pleyel, and was particularly interested in their player pianos. To his recipient, Strawinsky apologizes, "excusez moi mon griffonage" and concludes, "P.S. J'ai beaucoup regretté que ne pas pouvoir déjeuner avec vous aujourdhui", ending with a second abbreviated signature. - Gently creased along folds.
Published by Prague, 12. XI. 1924., 1924
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, AustriaAntiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH
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Add to basketOblong small 8vo. 1 page. Three bars of his "Octuor for Wind Instruments" as a "petit souvenir de Igor Strawinsky". - Mounted.
Published by Voreppe, 3. IX. 1933., 1933
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Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, AustriaAntiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH
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Add to basket8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. In pencil. To his friend, the patron, music critic, and tenor Pyotr Suvchinsky (1892-1985), correcting a note in the score of "Perséphone". As Stravinsky demonstrates with the help of two short musical notations of the "6th measure of the beginning", the last syllable of the word "mois-son" (crops) was to…be sung in B and not in a higher D. The notations with French captions are followed by a short explanation in Russian, starting with the exclamation "For God's sake". - Stravinsky had invited his friend and fellow expatriate Suvchinsky to sing the part of Eumolphe in the production of the theatrical ballet "Perséphone". In a letter from 23 July 1933 Suvchinsky wrote to thank Stravinsky: "Your promise [of the part in "Perséphone"] is the first gift that I have received in Paris" (Levitz, p. 321). Nevertheless, the role was created by René Maison at the premiere at the Paris Opera on 30 April 1934. - "Perséphone" was a collaboration between Igor Stravinsky and the Nobel laureate André Gide. The famous dancer Ida Rubinstein had initiated the project in 1933 and later danced the lead role. For the libretto Gide revised a sketch from 1912, but the collaboration proved difficult, as Stravinsky took liberties in adapting the text to his musical vision. Ahead of the premiere, Gide distanced himself from the project, as he was dissatisfied with Jacques Copeau's staging and Kurt Jooss's choreography. Only much later did Gide acknowledge the quality of Stravinsky's composition. - Well preserved. - Tamara Levitz, Modernist Mysteries: Persephone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
More imagesMarius Constant (1925-2004) - Rare signed card + Photo - 1996
Marius Constant (1925-2004) - Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Although known in the classical world primarily for his ballet scores, his most widely known music was the iconic guitar theme for The Twilight Zone American television series
Language: French
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Add to basketPas de couverture. Condition: Bon. RARE - Authentic card signed in December 1996. + Photo 11.5x15 cm (recent print). Size : 7.5x12.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.
MORTON GOULD (1913-96) US-amerikanischer Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist, 1995 Pulitzer-Preis für seine Komposition Stringmusic / US-american composer, conductor and pianist
MORTON GOULD (1913-96) US-amerikanischer Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist, 1995 Pulitzer-Preis für seine Komposition Stringmusic / US-american composer, conductor and pianist
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Seller: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, GermanyHerbst-Auktionen
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Add to basketAutogrammkarte mit eigenhändiger Empfehlung, Datum 9/3/91, Unterschrift signiert, mit s/w-Reproporträtfoto unter dunkelblaues Passepartout (4°) gerahmt.
