Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Enormous collection of nearly 100 pieces, consisting primarily of photos, letters, signatures, and programs, all signed by a highly regarded musician or dancer. Signers include: John Philip Sousa, Isaac Stern, Placido Domingo, Yehudi Menuhin, Benny Goodman, Jose Greco, Wilhelm Kienzl, and Wilma Neruda. In overall very good to fine condition. Accompanied by a small collection of unsigned cigarette cards, postcards, programs, and sheet music. A fantastic assemblage of musical autographs in a variety of uncommon formats.
Complete listing of signers:
COMPOSERS
Sir Julius Benedict, Henry Bishop, John Alden Carpenter, Ingolf Dahl, Arkady Dubensky, Carl Ehrenberg, Isidora Fagoago, Arthur Foote, Lukas Foss, Robert Franz, Rubin Goldmark, Joseph Haas, Richard Hageman, Edward Burlingame Hill, Frederick Jacobi, Heinrich Kaminski, Wilhelm Kienzl, Italo Montemezzi, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Juan Bautista Plaza, Anna Russell, William Schuman, Humphrey Searle, Roger Sessions, John Philip Sousa, Heinz Tiessen, and Georges Witkowski
CONDUCTORS
Luigi Mancinelli, Friedrich Klose, Robert Shaw, Fritz Steinbach (conductor and composer), William Steinberg, and George Szell
OPERA SINGERS
Henry Clay Barnabee, Mimi Benzell, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Placido Domingo, Eugen Gura, Niels Kehet, Selma Kronold, George London, Rosa Olitzka, Brian Sullivan, Joseph Tagliafico, Cesare Valletti, and Frances Yeend
INSTRUMENTALISTS
Gina Bachauer (pianist), Paul Badura-Skoda (pianist), Samuel Baron (flautist), E. Power Biggs (organist), Teresa Carreño (pianist), Paul Doktor (violist), Benny Goodman (clarinettist), Gary Graffman (pianist), Mieczyslaw Horszowski (pianist), Eugene Istomin (pianist), Leon Kirchner (pianist and composer), Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichordist), Julius Levine (double bassist), George Malcolm (harpsichordist), Yehudi Menuhin (violinist), Nathan Milstein (violinist), Benno Moiseiwitsch (pianist), Gerald Moore (pianist), Erica Morini (viiolinist), Moritz Moszkowski (pianist), Wilma Neruda (violinist), Giuomar Novaes (pianist), Rafael Puyana (harpsichordist), Michael Rabin (violinist), Daniel Saidenberg (cellist), Berl Senofsky (violinist), Isaac Stern (violinist), Eugene Thayer (organist and composer), and Zvi Zeitlin (violinist)
DANCERS
Sir Frederick Ashton, Cyril Beaumont (noted critic and author), Svetlana Berisova, Anton Dolin, Constanzo Gazzera, José Greco, Isabelle Guérin, Sylvie Guillem, Charles Jude, Dominique Khalfouni, Alicia Markova, Alicia Monte, Ivan Nagy, Heinz Spoerli, and Fiona Tonkin
UNSIGNED EPHEMERA
- 19th century lithograph of Mme. Branchu, 19th century French soprano
- "The Jewish King Lear" (sheet music)
- Cigarette card portraits of Adams, Borwick, Bridge, Butt, Chaminade, Coleridge-Taylor, Cowen, Davies, Elgrar, German, Godowski, Greene, Grieg, Holbrooke, Joachim, Lind, Lloyd, Mackenzie, Mills, Nilsson, Patti, Saint-Saens, Satnley, Somervell and Stanford
- Victor Record postcards of Besanzoni, Braslau, Culp, De Gorgorza, Harrold, Homer, Lashanska, Lauder, Morini, Sasthern and Marlowe, Sousa and Whitehill
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5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
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