Auction Date:2012 Jun 20 @ 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
AMQS signed “S. Rachmaninoff” on a 12.5 x 7 heavy card with printed staves. Rachmaninoff pens four bars, which he also titles in French, “3rd Concerto for Piano / op. 30,” the opening theme from what is familiarly known as Rach 3. Affixed to the left side of the card is a vintage 3.5 x 5.5 color postcard portrait, based on a drawing by German artist Robert Sterl, signed in Russian by Rachmaninoff at the same time he penned the musical quotation (as the signature trails off on to the mount). In fine condition.
The musical quotation selected by Rachmaninoff holds the distinction of being ‘the world’s toughest piano piece’ in the standard piano repertoire. Such a reputation was based on the piece’s technical and musical demands, leading one article to claim that it exposes a musician to ‘everything the keyboard can throw at anyone who dares to take it on…[but] Rach 3 [is] the work that every pianist of genuine ability will want to master.’ The concerto was written by Rachmaninoff at his family’s country estate and completed in September 1909.
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