String Quartet by Cohn Arthur (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition? Small quarto. 91pp. Mills Music label on title page. Reproduced from holograph. Bound later into plain forest green buckram. Slight rippling at the page edges else fine. The printed date on the title page says "(1935)," but a printed note, a facsimile of Cohn's handwriting, at the close states "done 1 ~ October 11, 1935. Revised, September 11, 1939. Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Arthur Cohn." Cohn was a noted, Philadelphia-born composer and author of two important books on contemporary classical music. Cohn conducted the orchestras of the Symphony Club of Philadelphia and the Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra, and held prominent positions at the music publishing companies Mills, MCA, and Carl Fischer. According to his obituary in *The New York Times*, he also "smuggled the scores of Shostakovich's 13th, 14th and 15th Symphonies out of the Soviet Union and helped to arrange for their American premieres and first recordings." Uncommon.