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Szigetti, Joseph

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD
Szigetti, Joseph
<Our item number 131521><B>Szigetti, Joseph.</B> &#40;1892-1973&#41; Legendary Hungarian-American violinist. Six ALsS and three TLsS, Inner-Arosa, Palos Verdes Estates, Céligny, written from 24 July 1946 to 13 October 1958. Various sizes, from folio to small 4to. To pianist Joseph Levine &#40;in Philadelphia&#41;, most regarding concert arrangements and recordings. A few excerpts: 24 July 1946 &#34;…<I>I am sure that you will prepare the repertoire so well that we will be able to &#39;get away&#39; with this risky arrangement….A detailed repertoire list will follow. For the present I will ask you to prepare to the best of your abilities: the second Busoni Sonata &#40;Breitkopf&#41; a most exciting pianistic task, also the Stravinsky Divertimento &#40;Edition de Musique Rusee&#41; which you might be able to find at Galaxy Music Corp. or at the Curtis or at some violinist&#39;s…</I>&#34; 29 May 1947 &#34;.<I>I am happy to think that our work next season will be mapped out carefully and prepared in a more leisurely manner than during this past October. To help you to do this I will be sending you a few of the piano scores in the next few days, so that we can perhaps run over some things before I leave for Europe…I assume that you have the Prokofieff Sonata, which we definitely will be playing in Toronto, Chicago, and elsewhere. The Mozart Concerto is another certainty</I>…&#34; 15 April 1949 &#34;…<I>The Mozart-Flesch &#40;Peters&#41; piano score is so wonderfully complete and solves our many problems &#40;which we discussed last winter&#41; so amazingly that I am having a copy sent to you. It is of course a challenge but I am sure, a pianist with your capacities will rejoice in meeting this challenge</I>!…&#34; 13 October 1958 &#34;…<I>I had a very busy and fruitful summer over here, giving a Bach masterclass in conjunction with Casals&#39; Beethoven Class in Zermatt, playing at different Festivals &#40;the one in Sevilla, the Busoni week in Empoli and so on&#41;</I>….&#34; Also inclu ded is a 1955 TLS to Levine&#39;s wife, eight letters from Szigeti&#39;s manager Herbert Barrett to Levine &#40;New York 1947-1972&#41;, and six letters from Levine to Szigeti &#40;1948-1971&#41;. Overall condition is fine. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;1,500 - 2,500. <I><BR>Stargardt, Nov. 2006, Lot 947.</I> <BR><BR>Our item number 131521<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/45jpegs/131521.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>