A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

DARIUS MILHAUD: (1892 - 1974) French composer, a pioneer of polytonality who composed many operas, symphonies, and concertos. A fine A.M.Q.S. executed

JACQUES OFFENBACH: (1819 - 1880) French opera composer and musician, composer of the grand opera "Tales of Hoffman". A.L.S. "J. Offen...

GIACOMO PUCCINI: (1858 - 1924) Italian operatic composer whose works include La Boheme, Tosca and Madame Butterfly. Good content A.L.S. signed in full

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: (1873 - 1943) Russian composer, pianist and conductor whose works include three symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and piano p

CLAUDE-JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE: (1760 - 1836) French military officer and composer who in 1792 wrote what was to become the French national anthem, &...

YURI SHAPORIN: Russian composer and conductor. Scarce A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., [n.p.], 1957, in Russian to Constantine Stepanovich advising him that Conservat

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH: (1906 - 1975) Russian composer of symphonies, choral works, quartets, and so on, often condemned by the Russian government for hi

RICHARD STRAUSS: (1864 - 1949) German composer of fifteen operas, including Salome, Der Rosenkavalier and Also sprach Zarathustra. Fine S.P. 4"...

IGOR STRAVINSKY: (1882 - 1971) One of the greatest composers of this century, Stravinsky wrote such masterpieces as "L'Oiseau de feu",...

MODEST TCHAIKOVSKY: (1850 - 1916) Russian playwright and librettist, the brother of Peter Tchaikovsy, remembered for his libretto for Francesca da Rim