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Quarto. Original publisher's pictorial cloth-backed boards printed in colour, decorative titling to spine gilt. [1] (title), [2] (copyright notice), 3-10 text in German, [i] (publisher's notice), [i] (blank) pp. followed by 42 plates (30 of which are in pochoir).With a fine photographic frontispiece depicting Schnackenberg in his Munich studio with the dancer Lo Hesse. Pochoir plates include:Plakat. Schnackenberg-Ausstellung 1914Plakat. Ritter BlaubartPlakat. Anne EhmansFigurine. Maria Hagen: Altfranzöisches BallettPlakat. Hagen-Pathé Plakat. Cabaret BonbonnièrePlakat. Laederlappen, StockholmFigurine. Pathé: GroteskeFigurine. Die blaue FlammeFigurine. Maria HagenInnenplakat. Odeon-Casino Figurine. Maria Hagen. Chinesenbaby Weinkarte. Preysing-Palais, MünchenPanneaux. Orientalisches Fest 1914Figurine. Der SalamanderFilm-Plakat (Hedemaria Scholz in "Die Rodelhexe")Figurine. Fleur du malFigurine. Joachim von Seewitz in: Liebe der TschaikiunPlakat. Hagen-PathéPlakat. Odeon-CasinoFigurineTänzerin in einem orientalischen FestzugTheater-Dekoration. Indischer Tempel Plakat. Deutsches Theater, MünchenFigurine. SchlangePlakat. Odeon-Casino 1911Plakat. Erry u. MerryFigurine. Maria Hagen: WalzerFigurine. Lo HessePlakat. Lena AmselPlakat. Consée, MünchenBlack and white plates include:Figurine. Der böse ZaubererFigurine. Der gute ZaubererFigurine. MaskeradeFigurine. Orientalische TänzerinTortola Valentia. StudiePhotographic studies include:Joachim v. Seewitz. Puderquaste (Setzer Wien)Peter Pathé. Groteske (Greiner Munchen) Maria Hagen u. Peter Pathé. Licht u. Schatten (Greiner München)Lo Hesse u. Joachim v. Seewitz. Maskerade (Setzer Wien)Anita Berber. Bingha (A. Binder Berlin)Lo Hesse. Tschaikiun (Setzer Wien)Maria Hagen. Walzer (Schenker Berlin) Binding slightly worn, soiled and shaken, endpapers somewhat foxed. Some signatures slightly split at spine. Plates in very good condition, with tissue guards.
SCHNACKENBERG, Walter 1880-1961.
Kostüme / Plakate und Dekorationen dreiundvierzig Tafels mit begleitendem text von Oskar Bie zweite Auflage.
München: Musarion Verlag, 1922.
Price: $5,000.00
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Oblong folio. Early speckled tan paper boards. [i] (title), ii (blank), iii-iv (subscription list), v-x (foreword), xi-xviii (libretto), 112 pp. typeset music. With text in Danish and German. From the collection of the composer's grandson, the composer Karl Ernst Naumann (1832-1910), with his faint signature to title. Binding worn, rubbed and bumped; slightly lacking at spine. Some foxing and browning throughout. A very good copy overall.
NAUMANN, Johann Gottlieb 1741-1801.
Orpheus und Euridice eine Oper...
Kiel: bey dem Herausgeber und in Hamburg in Commission bey Herrn Hofmann, 1787.
Price: $950.00
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Folio. 1f. (autograph title, verso blank) + 16 pp. autograph musical manuscript, [ii] (blank) pp. in total, consisting of:"I Antoine Watteau," pp. 1-4, signed at conclusion "Mario Giramonte 25 Maggio 1936" "II. Heldémone, Adelgine, Ercole," pp. 5-10, signed at conclusion "Mario Giramonte 22 Maggio 1936" "III Amitié," pp. 11-16, signed at conclusion "Mario Firenze 20 Maggio 1936" Together with:Another copy of Amitié with some minor textual differences and one measure in which some notation has been altered. 1f. (autograph title, verso blank) + 6 pp. autograph musical manuscript. Also dedicated to Lapiccirelle and signed in full on title and again at conclusion "Mario Firenze 20 Maggio 1936." A total of two autograph titles plus 22 pages of autograph musical manuscript notated in ink on 12-stave Saporetti & Cappelli - Firenze music manuscript paper. Together with: An original drawing incorporating a small bridge, a lone palm tree, a stylized boat and four buildings in turquoise ink, also dedicated to Lapiccirella, signed and dated Florence June 12, 1952, 170 mm. x 218 mm. Executed on the verso of Lapiccirella's personal stationery, with his name and address imprinted at head indicating that he was a doctor in Florence, and with the word "Jewish," also in turquoise ink, in an unidentified hand.Very slightly worn and creased; drawing slightly stained at upper and right-hand edges. In very good condition overall.
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, Mario 1895-1968.
"Trois fragments de Marcel Proust (extraits de 'Les plaisirs et les jours') pour chant et piano. I - Antoine Watteau; II - Heldémone; III - Amitié." Autograph musical manuscripts for voice and piano. Signed and dated May, 1936. Dedicated to Vincenzo Lapiccirella. Complete.
Price: $2,200.00
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Small folio. To Miss Renee Glaser at the North American Newspaper Alliance in New York. On personal letterhead with the composer's name embossed at head. With typed envelope with Berlin's name embossed to verso. An important letter from this quintessentially American composer, in which Berlin discusses the quintessentially American symbol, the Statue of Liberty, and writes about his musical based on the sculpting of the Statue in 1886, Miss Liberty, in which he set part of Emma Lazarus's famous poem "The New Colossus," engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty commencing "Give me your tired, your poor..." "I arrived in America with my family in 1893 at the age of five, so doubt very much that I saw any significance in the Statue of Liberty at that time. However, it is pretty obvious how any American feels about the Statue today..." Creased at folds. In very good condition overall.
BERLIN, Irving 1888-1989.
Typed letter signed dated March 9th 1954.
Price: $1,750.00
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Folio. [i] (autograph title), 4 pp. autograph musical manuscript, [i] (blank) pp. Notated in ink on 20-stave musical manuscript paper. With autograph text in Russian. Stamps of the Société dated October 25, 1928 to title and within manuscript. Signed twice on title, at head of first page of music, and dated 1926 at conclusion. With corrections and deletions in ink in the composer's hand and additional performance markings in pencil, presumably in the hand of the dedicatee. Slightly worn, soiled and creased; smudging to several notes.
GRETCHANINOV, Alexandre 1864-1956.
Cloches sonnaient [Op. 120]. Autograph musical manuscript with a signed inscription in Cyrillic to the soprano Nina Pavlovna Koshetz "for the 15th anniversary of her glorious activities" dated Paris 1927 to title; also signed and titled in French.
Price: $3,850.00
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Image size ca. 285 mm. x 170 mm. (ca. 11-3/16" x 6-5/8"), overall dimensions 16.5" x 11.75". Attractively matted and framed. Some spotting to image.
MELBA, Dame Nellie 1861-1931.
Fine large original photograph of Melba as Juliette in Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette, inscribed, signed and dated 1896.
Price: $500.00
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Two measures from Act II, notated on an album leaf 120 mm. x 188 mm. Attractively double-matted and framed with a contemporary postcard photograph. Overall size 18" x 13-3/4".
PUCCINI, Giacomo 1858-1924.
Autograph musical quotation from La Bohème, signed and dated Torre del Lago, August 30, 1896.
Price: $3,500.00
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An attractive portrait of the composer in formal dress in half-length pose published by Breitkopf & Härtel in New York, ca. 1892. 135 mm. x 87 mm. (5-5/16" x 3-7/16"). Very slightly abraided at corners; two small ink stains to upper edge; traces of mounting adhesive to verso. In very good condition overall.
STRAUSS, Richard 1864-1949.
Early postcard photograph signed.
Price: $650.00
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Folio. Modern tan cloth-backed boards with publisher's original dark pink printed wrappers bound in. [1] (title with decorative border printed in sepia), [2] (publisher's statement), 3-60 pp. Wrappers slightly foxed and stained. Title soiled and stained, primarily at margins; some light wear, soiling and browning; staining to lower margins of last few leaves from bleeding of wrapper colour, just extending into printed area in a few instances. A very good copy overall.
SCHOENBERG, Arnold 1874-1951.
[Op. 16]. Fünf Orchesterstücke... Opus 16. [Full score].
Leipzig: C.F. Peters [PN] 9663, [1918].
Price: $1,200.00
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Folio. 19th century green marbled boards with decorative manuscript title label to upper, red speckled edges. 1f. (title), [4] (publisher's catalogue), [2] (publisher's notes regarding the work), 4 plates (two of which are double-page), 144, [i] pp. Engraved throughout. With overpaste of the Milanese office of Artaria to title. The illustrative plates consist of line drawings of the parts of the clarinet, the correct hand and playing positions, and fingering charts. Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped. Very slightly worn and soiled internally. In very good condition overall.
LEFEVRE, [Jean] Xavier 1763-1829.
Méthode de Clarinette... Membre du Conservatoire de Musique et Prem.re Clarinette de l'Opéra
Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique , [1802].
Price: $2,000.00
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Three measures, notated in ink on a leaf 128 mm. x 150 mm. and attractively double-matted and framed with a photographic portrait of Poulenc. Overall dimensions ca. 309 x 452 mm. (ca. 12-3/8" x 17-3/4").
POULENC, Francis 1899-1963.
Autograph musical quotation from the composer's ballet Les Animaux Modèles, signed and dated London, March 1945.
Price: $2,500.00
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A distinguished image, with Caruso dressed in a pinstripped suit, hat, and gloves and carrying a cane. Attractively double-matted and framed with a 78 rpm Victrola recording of Caruso singing the famous Neapolitan song, "O sole mio." Image size ca. 130 mm. x 80 mm., overall dimensions ca. 450 x 465 mm. (ca. 17.75 x 22").
CARUSO, Enrico 1873-1921.
Original photographic portrait with autograph inscription signed and dated November 7, [?]1904.
Price: $1,100.00
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3 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. On personal letterhead with "Dr. Richard Strauss Garmisch" printed at head. Addressed "Cher ami et Directeur!" In French (with translation). An interesting letter, with Strauss expressing his concern over who will sing Salomé as "Mr. Krauss (Vienna) has absolutely refused me leave for Mme. Pauly... It's very sad that France has not produced a Salomé before now: a role that suits the Roman talent and temperament better than it does ours!" Strauss also mentions a forthcoming concert on October 21st and its rehearsal schedule, a rehearsal of Rosenkavalier, and notes that he will be at the Hotel Imperial in Karlsbad until September 12th. Very slightly worn; creased at central fold. In very good condition overall.
STRAUSS, Richard 1864-1949.
Autograph letter signed and dated August 19, 1930.
Price: $2,500.00
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Folio (304 x 220 mm.). Full dark orange leather with titling and decorative devices stamped in gilt to upper and "Sammlung Dr. Heinz-Georg v. Kamler, Wien" stamped in gilt to lower board. [1] (title), 2-59 pp. Notated in pencil on 12-stave music manuscript paper. With an autograph presentation from the composer to Dr. Heinz-Georg and Michaela von Kamler to title, signed and dated Vienna, November 9, 1981. Together with two autograph letters from the composer to the von Kamlers providing a description of the work, a performance of it, and news of the players, suggesting that the von Kamlers may have actually have commissioned the work. Together with copies of the published score and parts issued by Doblinger in 1990.
KONT, Paul 1920-2000.
Sonate und Sonatine für Streichquartett. 1. Sonate "Brinje." 2. Sonatine "Das reine Gedicht." Autograph musical manuscript full score, dated October 1981 at conclusion. Complete.
Price: $2,600.00
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1f. (autograph title) + 78. pp. autograph musical manuscript + 10 ff. (blank). Folio (342 x 270 mm.). Carefully notated in pencil on 24-stave G. Schirmer music manuscript paper. With "Christopher Rouse Trombone Concerto" stencilled in large black letters to title. With additional autograph annotation to head of page 1: "Commissioned by the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York for its 150th Anniversary."With composer's mimeographed notes laid down to verso of title: I completed my Trombone Concerto in Fairport, N.Y. on April 5, 1991. It was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, in honor of the orchestra's sesquicentennial.""The concerto is scored for a solo trombone with F attachment and an orchestra consisting of 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns (parts in F), 3 trumpets (parts in C), 3 trombones, tuba, harp, timpani, percussion (4 players) and strings. The percussion requirements are as follows: Player 1 - xylophone, snare drum, one suspended cymbalPlayer 2 - blockenspiel, cymbals, tenor drum, hammer (like that called for in Mahler's Symphony No. 6)Player 3 - marimba, 4 tomtoms (high, medium, medium low, low), bass drumPlayer 4 - chimes, 2 bongos, one tomtom (tomtom 5, very low), 2 tamtams (large and very large), one suspended cymbal. Rouse follows with "percussion stick indications," including for snare drum sticks; bass drum beater; soft, medium and hard felt sticks; wooden stick; tamtam beater; sledgehammer; brass mallet; soft, medium and hard rubber; soft, medium and hard yarn mallets; chime mallet; and light and heavy plastic beaters. With instrumentation legend in autograph manuscript symbols. Deletions in white-out throughout. Very slightly worn. Small stain to blank left-hand margin of title and very slightly split at foot. With "Copyright 1992 by Helicon Music Corporation" overpaste to foot of first page together with small overpaste to "G. Schirmer" manuscript paper imprint. In very good condition overall.
ROUSE, Christopher born 1949.
Trombone Concerto. Autograph musical manuscript of this 1993 Pulitzer prize-winning work. Complete. Signed by the composer. With autograph dedication to Leonard Bernstein, "In memoriam," to head of first page and with "Deo Gratias April 5, 1991" to foot of final page.
Price: $100,000.00
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1f. (autograph title) + 40 pp. autograph musical manuscript + 8ff. (blank). Folio (342 x 270 mm.). Carefully notated in pencil on 24-stave G. Schirmer music manuscript paper. With "Christopher Rouse Symphony No. 1" stencilled in large black letters to title and a small slip of paper printed with the words "Revised Edition" in small letters laid down beneath. With additional autograph annotation to lower right-hand corner of page 1: "Commissioned by the Meet the Composer Orchestra Residencies Program with major funding from Exxon Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts."With composer's mimeographed notes laid down to verso of title: "Completed in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 26, 1986, my first symphony was composed for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra through a commission from the Meet the Composer Orchestra Residencies Program, in which I served first as Composer-in-Residence with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra before assuming a similar post with the Baltimore Symphony." "The work is a single-movement adagio of considerable proportions, lasting approximately twenty-four minutes. It is scored for an orchestra consisting of 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling on English horn and oboe d'amore), 2 clarinets (2nd doubling on bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling on contrabassoon), 4 horns (Players 1 and 3 doubling on tenor Wagner tubas, players 2 and 4 doubling on bass Wagner tubas), 3 trumpets (parts in C), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players), and strings. The percussion requirements are as follows:Player 1 - Chinese cymbal, snare drum, 1 bongo (high),Player 2 - tenor drum, bass drum, [with "xylophone" added in autograph manuscript] Player 3 - tambourine, metal plate, hammer (like that called for in Mahler's Symphony No. 6)."Rouse follows with "stick indications" including for mallets (soft, medium and hard rubber and soft, medium and hard yarn); soft, medium and hard felt sticks; snare drum stick; wood, bass drum and tamtam beaters; and hammer, and commentary on the use of three oboists, etc. With one addition in manuscript in blue ink ("xylophone") and instrumentation legend in autograph manuscript symbols. Deletions in white-out throughout. Very slightly worn. Title leaf detached, blank lower right-hand corner creased with small portion lacking, upper right-hand corner creased, slightly worn and ragged at left edge, very small portion of right-hand upper corner lacking. In very good condition overall.
ROUSE, Christopher born 1949.
Symphony No. 1. Autograph musical manuscript of this 1988 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award-winning work. Complete. Signed by the composer. With autograph dedication to fellow-composer John Harbison to foot of first page and with "Deo Gratias August 26, 1986 and Dies illa" to foot of final page.
Price: $70,000.00
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2 pp. Octavo. Addressed "Mio caro Peppino" and dated Moltrasio, July 15, no year but ca. 1830. Bellini has just received a letter from Rubini (most probably the Italian tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini 1794-1854) with sad news regarding the health of Bellini's mistress Giuditta Turina's sister Rosina: "I hasten to write to you to avoid any shock to Signora Giuditta Turina because it is doubtful whether or not her sister Rosina is or is not among the living... Her mother is coming and perhaps bringing some news with her. Please ask everyone to appear unaware of this tragedy... I don't know... how dear Giuditta will receive this news..."Slightly worn; lightly creased at folds; one small stain to outer margin just touching several letters; one edge slightly ragged with no loss of text; small decorative rectangular stamp of previous owner ("H. Prior") to blank margin of verso.
BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835.
Autograph letter signed to Giuseppe Pasta, husband of the renowned soprano Giuditta Pasta (1797-1865).
Price: $5,800.00
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Large oblong folio (375 x 292 mm.). 6 ff. notated in pencil on one side of each leaf only on 14-stave Carta No. 25 music manuscript paper. With text by Elizabeth Barrett Browning commencing "Say over, say over, say over again, and yet once over again, that thou dost love me."
STUCKY, Steven born 1949.
"Say Thou Dost Love Me. Sonnets from the Portuguese XXI." Autograph musical manuscript of a work for unaccompanied voices (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), signed and dated Ithaca, 21 January 2012.
Price: $4,000.00
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Oblong folio (267 x 390 mm.). 2 pages notated on one leaf, containing a total of approximately 160 measures of music. Notated in ink on 16-stave paper with watermark incorporating a fleur-de-lys within decorative border. With 19th century manuscript note to verso: "Donizetti autografo."The recto of the leaf carries 17 measures, being the music and text to the cabaletta from Saverio's aria in Act I commencing "Tomba alla tomba renderò;" the remaining music on this page (approximately 60 measures) appears to relate to portions of Act II. The verso of the leaf carries 28 measures, being the melody and text sung by Paolina in her duet with Saverio, i.e., measures 181-209 in the score; the remaining music on this page consists of approximately 64 measures of sketch material for the opera. Slightly worn, foxed and stained; creased at central fold; old paper repairs to margin.
DONIZETTI, Gaetano 1797-1848.
Poliuto. Autograph working musical manuscript sketches and compositional material. Unsigned. Naples, ca. 1838.
Price: $8,500.00
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Large folio (419 x 313 mm.). Full red cloth with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (title), 3-63, [i] (blank) pp. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, bumped and stained; some wrinkling to both boards; slightly warped. Title slightly browned, slightly defective and cockled at inner edge, verso split at spine, otherwise in very good condition overall.
SCHOENBERG, Arnold 1874-1951.
[Op. 18]. Die Glückliche Hand Drama mit Musik. [Full score].
Wien, Leipzig: Universal-Edition A.G. [PN] 5670, Copyright 1916 [1917].
Price: $2,200.00
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26 pp. Large folio (18" x 19", 457 x 483 mm). Signed and dated 2005. Notated on one side of the leaf only in an elegant calligraphic hand on 16-stave prepared paper. In black ink with revisions and additions in blue, green and violet felt-tip and red ballpoint pen. With many deletions and alterations, including a one-page cancel. A first draft, apparently discarded by the composer, for an alternate version. With autograph dedication to the violinist Baird Dodge (soloist in the first performance), the English composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.In very good condition.
THOMAS, Augusta Read born 1964.
Carillon Sky for solo violin and chamber ensemble. Autograph musical manuscript of the complete work in full score.
Price: $15,000.00
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Folio. Original publisher's wrappers. 1f. (title), pp. 2-12 music. With an autograph inscription to Webern's close friend, Josef Polnauer, to title (in German): "To his dear loyal Josef Polnauer, Christmas 1936" signed "A. Webern" and with pencilled annotations in German to pages 2, 4, 7 and 9 relating both to the performance of the songs and to letters from Webern to Jone and fellow-composer Alban Berg. Wrappers somewhat worn, soiled and creased; slightly worn and creased internally.
WEBERN, Anton 1883-1945.
Drei Gesänge Op. 23
Wien: Universal-Edition [PN U.E. 10255], [April 1936].
Price: $3,800.00
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Large folio, 418 x 300 mm. Unbound. 1 page of a bifolium. Notated in pencil on 30-stave Star Nr. 136 paper, with autograph title and inscription to head. A final draft of the complete work in 43 measures, with evidence of the compositional process.
FELDER, David born 1953.
Nomina sunt consequentia rerum for chamber choir (SATB). Autograph musical manuscript full score. Signed and dated by the composer November 3, [20]10 at conclusion.
Price: $1,350.00
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Tall folio. 7 pp. (textual description of plates), [i] (blank), plates I-XI on the organ + 22 full page plates illustrating various wind, string, percussion, etc., instruments and the tools of their manufacture + 1 double-page folding plate, each with "Benard Direxit [under the supervision of" to lower outer corner, including the plate (XVIII) depicting the interior of a musical instrument workshop with craftsmen at work. Disbound. Scattered soiling and light staining; edges of first few leaves slightly lacking at blank outer margin; trimmed at outer margin, just affecting image in several instances.
Diderot, Denis 1713-1784.
Lutherie. Contenant trente-quatre Planches, dont une double.
Paris, [ca. 1772].
Price: $750.00
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Large oblong folio. 27 measures notated in pencil on rectos of 2 leaves of 18-stave Paseantino manuscript paper. With text commencing "Our Father who art in heaven," signed in full and dated at conclusion "October 12, 2011, Philadelphia, PA," with annotation "Written for the NY Virtuoso Singers' 25th Harold Rosenbaum, dir."
HIGDON, Jennifer born 1962.
"The Prayer." Autograph musical manuscript of The Lord's Prayer set for mixed choir (SATB).
Price: $1,200.00
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Unbound. Keyboard: [1] (title), 2-17, [i] (blank) oblong folio; violin: 5, [i] (blank) pp. upright folio. Slightly worn and soiled; title and last leaf of keyboard part separated and of violin part nearly so; occasional very small stains.
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1792.
[KV 481] Sonate pour Le Fortepiano, ou Clavecin
Vienne: Hoffmeister [PN] 28, [1786].
Price: $7,500.00
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Folio. Unbound. 2 pp. written on both sides of a leaf of music manuscript paper carrying the printed identification "J.E. & Co. Protokollirte Schutzmarke No. 12." 343 x 263 mm. Four braces of three staves each, marked "Gemächlich" in Wolf's autograph at head of first page. 30 measures in total, notated in black ink, the signature and instrumentation in purple pencil. Several autograph corrections in ink, including to title. With editorial markings consisting primarily of accidentals added in blue crayon, possibly in another hand. Slightly worn, browned and foxed; horizontal creasing; some minor repairs. Professionally deacidified.
WOLF, Hugo 1860-1903.
"Unfall." Song for voice and piano. Autograph musical manuscript signed. The complete song.
Price: $25,000.00
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Two volumes. Small folio. Full black textured leather with titling gilt to spines and uppers. 1024 pp. + 2ff. Illustrated with fine photographic reproductions in colour depicting critical details of rare bows. With accompanying text in French, German and English providing biographical information on each maker as well as related commentary.
Vatelot, Etiènne.
Les Archets Français Deuxième Édition Tome I [-II].
Sernor: M. Dufour, [1977].
Price: $4,000.00
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Quarto. Full mid-tan textured leather with titling gilt to upper and spine, boards with decorative gilt rules. 1f. (half-title), 1f. (title), 1f. (acknowledgement), 1f. (dedication), 1f. (preface), pp. 13-335, [i] (blank). Illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions of bows, clearly identifying distinguishing features and noting market values. With an historical essay and biographical information on each maker. Several leaves lightly spotted, otherwise a near-fine copy.
Roda, Joseph.
Bows for Musical Instruments of the Violin Family.
Chicago: William Lewis & Son, 1959.
Price: $1,600.00
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Oblong folio. Original publisher's dark grey wrappers. [1] (title), [2]-[3] (blank), 4-75, [76] (blank), [77] (contents), [78] (blank) pp. Wrappers quite worn and torn at spine and margins; lower stained. Slightly worn and foxed internally; light staining to margins of first few leaves; occasional fingering in pencil.
KUHLAU, Friedrich 1786-1832.
Elverhöi Skuespil i fem Acter... Op. 100. [Piano-vocal score].
Kiöbenhavn: C.C. Lose, [1828].
Price: $650.00
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3 pp. Octavo. No place, no date. In English. Apparently to another singer, as Albani provides detailed instructions regarding performance, marked "Important" at head. "No. 1o Faust. the spinning which[!] scene and final song - No cuts in the whole scene beginning with Recitative... No. 2 Otello - 4th act - ... The last pianissimo ritornelle to be played twice to allow time to bring down the curtain slowly. No. 3o Lucia mad scene. Begin at the beginning just before the Recitative... [quotation]. You cut from this point to the three chords which precede "Ardon gli'incensi"... The whole of this movement is transposed one whole tone... I hope to send you a copy of Otello and Lucia with the cuts of Lucia profusely marked." Slightly worn and soiled; creased at folds. Laid down to mounting sheet.
ALBANI, Emma 1847-1930.
Autograph performance notes regarding Faust, Otello and Lucia da Lammermoor, incorporating an autograph musical quotation.
Price: $350.00
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Small oblong quarto. Contemporary mid-tan leather-backed marbled boards. vi, 223 [!227] pp., i.e., A-2F4 + 2 additional leaves following P4. With title to the second book at I2: "The Musical Companion: containing Dialogues, Glees, Ballads & Ayres, in several Varieties. Some for Two Three Four Voices. The Second Part... London: Printed by W.G. for J. Playford, 1672." Verso of final leaf with "Musick-Books Printed and are to be Sold by John Playford." Decorative woodcut initials and music printed typographically in diamond-head notation throughout. From the collection of the noted American writer on music Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920). Scattered contemporary manuscript annotations, including "Henry Wood his book April... the 22 1729"Boards worn and detached, spine lacking. Ex-library, with library bookplate to front pastedown, early bookseller's description to verso of preliminary leaf, handstamps to recto and verso of title and verso of rear free endpaper, labels to rear pastedown. Lacking seven leaves, as follows: title (A1), pp. 9-12 (C1-2), 27-30 (E2-3), 35-36 (F2) and 67-68 (K2). Some wear and soiling; first signatures and some leaves separated at spine; several leaves cropped with slight loss; occasional additional minor defects.
PLAYFORD, John 1623-1686.
The Musical Companion,
London: Printed by W. Godbid for John Playford, 1673.
Price: $900.00
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Oblong quarto. Unbound. 2 pp. Slightly browned; minor staining to blank inner margin; creased at folds; slightly creased overall.
SCHUBERT, Franz 1797-1828.
Die Liebende schreibt. Von Göthe [For voice and piano]. D673.
[Vienna]: Beylage zur Wiener Zeitschrift. Nr. 76 [Gedruckt bey Anton Strauss's sel. Witwe], 1832.
Price: $400.00
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Original large lithographic poster in colours, drawn and printed by Jules Chéret. 73 x 53.5 cms. (29.25" x 21.75"). Unmounted. On paper. 4" tear to left edge repaired.
Strauss, Johann the Younger 1825-1899.
Le Reine Indigo.
Paris: Au Ménestrel... Heugel et Cie. , [1875].
Price: $1,200.00
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Original large lithographic poster in colours by Pal, signed in the stone and with the mark of the Pal studio to lower left. 129 x 98 cms. (51.5" x 39"). Laid down to board; slightly worn at edges. In very good condition overall.
Massenet, Jules 1842-1912.
Sapho.
Paris: F. Hermet, [ca. 1897].
Price: $1,600.00
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