Calypso Souvenir. Autograph music manuscript full score of the complete work. Signed ("Morton Gould") and dated May 1964
Foliio. 21ff. notated in pencil on rectos of onionskin 14-stave music paper with "Circle Blue Print Co., Inc., 225 West 57th Street, New York 19, N.Y." printed at lower outer right corner of each leaf.
Titled at head of first page of music with "2:55 Moderato (Brisk 4)" at left and Gould's full signature and date at right; signed in full and dated again by Gould at conclusion.
Instrumentation includes:
3 piccolos
2 Bb clarinets
1 bass clarinet
1 bassoon
3 trumpets (with plunger mutes)
Harp
Violins
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Marimba
Steel drums at different pitches
Bongo drums
Very slightly worn and browned. In very good condition overall.
Gould, an American composer, conductor, and pianist, was a child prodigy recognized for both his compositional and improvisational talent; he composed his first work, "Just Six," at that young age. He went on to write in many different genres, including orchestral works and for Broadway, film, television, and dance, collaborating with Jerome Robbins (Interplay, 1945 and I'm Old Fashioned, 1983) and Agnes de Mille (Fall River Legend, 1947).
"He was on the staff of Radio City Music Hall when it opened (1932), and came of age during the golden era of radio: beginning at the age of 21 and for the following eight years he conducted, arranged and composed for the weekly programme ‘Music for Today’ on WOR, New York. ... 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. During the 1940s Gould continued to compose for the concert hall and radio, but also wrote for film, stage and ballet." Ed Matthew in Grove Music Online.
Item #40558
Price: $3,500.00 other currencies