Autograph musical manuscript sketches signed for portions of two orchestral works, Declaration Suite (1956) and American Ballads (1976)

GOULD, Morton 1913-1996

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- Declaration SuiteAutograph title + 2 pp. autograph musical manuscript numbered 14 and 15 by the composer. Folio. Notated in pencil on 12-stave music manuscript paper. Identified by Gould at a later date on title in red ink: "Sketch for Declaration Music [signed] Morton Gould." Ca. 1956.- Star Spangled Overture from American Ballads1-1/3 pp. Folio. Notated in black ink on 12-stave onion skin music manuscript paper. Identified by Gould at a later date at head in red ink: "Preliminary Sketches - American Ballads - Star Spangled Overture A Bicentennial Commission by the N.Y. State Council for the Arts and the U.S. Historical Society." Signed by Gould on both leaves. Ca. 1976. Together with:An autograph letter signed from Gould to the New York public television station WNET Channel 13 on Chappell Music Company letterhead enclosing the sketches and mentioning the commissioning bodies. 1 page. Dated May 9, 1977. In red ink. With original envelope addressed by Gould. Some minor wear and staining; small sticker affixed to blank area of letter.

"Gould's career as a symphonic composer began with the première by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra of Chorale and Fugue in Jazz (1933). Spirituals, his first work to enter the orchestral repertory, was first performed by Gould himself at a New York festival in 1941; performances followed shortly afterwards by, among many others, the New York PO and the Cleveland Orchestra." Ed Matthew in Grove online

Item ID: 21731

$1,000.00