Auction Date:2013 Dec 11 @ 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
Attractive guest book belonging to music publisher Otto Furstner, 11.5 x 9.25, with alligator skin covers, silver corner pieces, and lettering on the front which reads, “Unsere Gaste.” Furstner has gathered about 60 entries including AMQSs, poems, and signatures. Among the musicians found inside are: Richard Strauss, with a fine large autograph musical quotation (four bars of music) signed and inscribed “DRichard Strauss […] Helena II. Akt, Berlin, 17. Oktober 1926,” predating the premiere and including the motif of Helena’s “supreme beauty”; Hans Pfitzner, one bar AMQS dated November 12, 1925; George Szell, combining themes from ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ and ‘Palestrina,’ dated November 12, 1925; Mark Lothar, four bar AMQS with a notation reading, “Einer, der sehr beschämt in dieser Reihe steht,” and dated July 19, 1930 and December 27, 1930; Mitja Nikisch, eight bar AMQS with an inscription which reads, “Dem lieben verehrten Herrn Fürstner zu Erinnerung an den 8. Januar 1935”; Erich Wolfgang Korngold with an empty hand-drawn stave and a notation which reads, “Siehe Seite vorher!,” and inscribed, “Herrn Otto Fürstner in freundschaftlicher Verehrung”; and Max Butting, single bar AMQS inscribed “Gemeinsame 5. Häuser bedingen das gerechtes System,” along with a signature of his wife. Other signatures include Max v. Schillings, Barbara Kemp, Luzi Korngold, William Boosey adding a poem, Leonie Furstner, Wolfgang Furstner, Friedrich Lachmann, Hans Voss, Tina Debuser, Hans Pfitzner, Agnes Rosen, Leonie Furstner, Johannes Oertel, Mark Lothar (adding a poem), Corry Nera (adding an eight-line poem), Hans Mahner-Mons (adding a small sketch), Franz Strauss, Alice Strauss, Richard Strauss, Barbara Din, Hans Detlef Winterfeldt and Tanja Winterfeldt. Binding has become detached from spine, and light wear to covers, otherwise fine condition.
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