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Berlin u. Breslau: Ed. Bote & G. Bock [PNs 181-192], 1866. 12 volumes. Octavo. Uniformly bound in brown cloth-backed textured dark brown paper boards with initials "E.M." to lower right corner of upper, gilt titling and ornaments to spines. Engraved. No. 1 [H. I:104]: 118 pp. - No. 2 [H. I:102]: 106 pp. - No. 3 [H. I:94]: 108 pp. - No. 4 [H. I:103]: 116 pp. - No. 5 [H. I:100]: 122 pp. - No. 6 [H. I:101]: 132 pp. - No. 7 [H. I:88]: 94 pp. - No. 8 [H. I:95]: 91 pp. - No. 9 [H. I:99]: 126 pp. - No. 10 [H. I:96]: 106 pp. - No. 11 [H. I:85]: 102 pp. - No. 12 [H. I:86]: 127 pp. Incipits of all 12 symphonies to title pages of vols. 2-3, 5, and 8-12, with subscription prices in Reichsthaler. Incipit staves from no. 8 left blank on titles of vols. 1, 4, 6, and 7; filled staves and prices are the same as in vols. 2-3, 5, and 8-12. Title pages are otherwise identical. Publisher's blindstamp to title of vols. 1, 3, 4, 6-8, and 10. Caption title "Symphonie" without number through vol. 7; no. 8 with arabic… Read More

New York: Edwin F. Kalmus, 1980. Large octavo. Original publisher's green printed wrappers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto cast list, verso synopsis), 1f. (recto musical numbers, verso blank), 1f. (recto secondary title, verso blank), 167, [i] (blank) pp. Wrappers slightly worn and creased; small price label to lower.

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 7682], 1849. Folio. Original publisher's gray printed wrappers. [1] (title), 2-67, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Text incipits (in German) as captions; text underlay in the initial recitative. Small publisher's handstamp to foot of title. Publisher's catalogue to verso of lower wrapper: "Friedrich Kalkbrenner's Pianoforte-Werke" listing works up to op. 190 (1849). With handstamps of "C. Breusing New York 701 Broadway" and "Horace Middleton South Millbrook, N.Y." to upper wrapper and title. Wrappers slightly stained and partially detached; minor loss to head of spine. Title detached. A later arrangement. Not in Hoboken Haydn catalogue, WorldCat, or RISM. The company of Charles Breusing, New York, was active from 1854 to 1861. Horace Middleton (1879-1961) was a British-born musician who served on the faculty of Bennett College from 1919 to the mid-1930s. He was best known for the music he composed for the Greek plays performed at the college. See obituary, Millbrook… Read More

Celle: Schweiger und Pick, 1813. Octavo (204 x 114 mm).. Sewn. 1f. (title), 3-20 pp. Typeset. Signature "Greiling" in ink to lower right corner of title. Slightly worn and soiled. Spine reinforced with green tape. The company of Schweiger & Pick was founded in 1813. It is still active, publishing the local newspaper of Celle. The author of the libretto was Gottfried van Swieten (1733-1803).

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 7707], 1850. Folio. Original publisher's yellow printed wrappers. [1-2] (title), 99, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Text incipits (in German) as captions. Small publisher's handstamp to foot of title. Publisher's catalogue to verso of lower wrapper: "Chopin's, Henselt's und Thalberg's Pianoforte-Werke" listing works up to Chopin's op. 65 (1848), Henselt's op. 16 (1846), and Thalberg's op. 66 (1850). Handstamp of "C. Breusing New York 701 Broadway" to foot of upper wrapper and title and that of "Horace Middleton South Millbrook, N.Y." to upper right corner of upper wrapper. Upper wrapper detached and somewhat soiled and chipped at outer edge. Outer lower corners dampstained; title partially detached. A later issue of the arrangement first published in ca. 1848. Rare. Not in Hoboken Haydn catalogue or RISM. WorldCat (two copies only, at the Amsterdam University library and at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). The company of Charles Breusing, New York, was active… Read More

Milano: G. Ricordi & C. [PNs 28731-54], 1934. Folio. Blue cloth-backed patterned paper boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto table of contents, verso blank), 5-300 pp. From the collection of Italian conductor, vocal coach, and close associate of Puccini and Mascagni, Luigi Ricci (1893-1981). Binding slightly rubbed and bumped. Slightly worn; light uniform browning; very occasional markings in lead and red pencil; pp. 17/18 with small tear to blank lower margin. First Italian edition (1856), later issue (based on the publisher's blindstamp). This second collaboration between Haydn and librettist Gottfried von Swieten was based on the poem by James Thomson (1700-1748) published in 1730. The work was first performed on April 24, 1801 in a private première at the Schwarzenberg Palace in Vienna; its first public production took place on May 19, 1801. "Although the initial reception of The Seasons was favourable - Haydn wrote to Clementi that it had enjoyed… Read More

London: Chappell [PN 19348], 1911. Quarto. Original publisher's printed wrappers. [i] (title), [ii] (copyright statement), [iii] (characters), [iv] (contents), 169 + 4 additional pages between pp. 52-53, [iii] (publisher's advertisements) pp. Wrappers slightly worn.

Kraków: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1972. Quarto. Cloth. 220 pp. In dustjacket.

207 x 254 mm. With Milstein's autograph signature dated November 1946 in black ink. Stamped "Nathan Milstein Violinist Management National Concert & Artists Corporation" with New York address to verso. Slightly worn and creased. An American violinist of Ukrainian birth, Milstein "ranked among the foremost violinists of his generation." Boris Schwarz in Grove Music Online.

150 x 100 mm. "Extrait des Albums Mariani" printed to lower left corner. "Massenet, impressed by her beauty and her voice with its range of three octaves, wrote the title roles in two operas for her: Esclarmonde, in which she made her Paris début at the Opéra-Comique in 1889; and Thaïs, in which she made her Opéra début in 1894." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online.

With the artist's name and a date of 1816 in the plate. 225 x 145 mm. + wide margins. With unidentified collector's stamp ("N.B.") to verso. A fine impression on wove paper. Slightly browned at edges. In all likelihood based (in reverse) on the engraving by C.T. Riedel (Komma 474).

Inscribed "To Miss Elsie Milbrath From Pietro Cimini with sincere good wishes Los Angeles October 1926" and with studio copyright mark "Alfred's L.A." at lower right. 224 x 180 mm, ca. 9" x 7". From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (b. 1934). Italian conductor Pietro Cimini worked under Toscanini at La Scala, then took up posts in Warsaw, Chicago, and throughout California. He directed performances at the San Francisco Opera from 1925 to 1937 and also guest conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

[?London], 1791. 138 x 96 mm. The image within an ornamental border within yellow hand-coloured frame and hand-drawn rules. Hinged at upper margin; slightly worn and foxed. Arne is considered to be the most significant figure in 18th century English theatre music.

From the studio of Bender in New York. Ca. 252 x 202 mm. Risë Stevens was an "American mezzo-soprano of Norwegian origin. She sang with the New York Opera-Comique before becoming a pupil of Anna Schoen-René. Approached by the Metropolitan, she declined and sailed for Europe to study with Marie Gutheil-Schoder. She then made her formal operatic début in Prague in 1936 as Thomas' Mignon; she also sang with the Vienna Staatsoper and in Buenos Aires. Returning to the USA, she made her début with the Metropolitan on tour in Philadelphia in 1938 as Octavian, appearing a month later in New York as Mignon. She remained with the company until 1961 but also sang with other companies (including Glyndebourne in 1939 and, as Cherubino, 1955). Her warm, lyric voice can be heard on studio and off-the-air recordings of her Cherubino, Carmen, Mignon, Delilah and Octavian." Max de Schauensee and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online.

No binding. Fine. 254 x 203 mm. Taken at the 100th birthday celebration of Noel Coward on 1 December 1999 at Carnegie Hall. With performance details to label at lower margin of verso. Cook "first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956), and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s, when she began a second career as a cabaret and concert singer,. She also made numerous recordings." Wikipedia.

207 x 254 mm. With Szigeti's autograph signature dated 1945 in blue ink. Stamped "Joseph Szigeti Violinist Management NCAC" with New York address on verso. Slightly worn and creased. An American violinist of Hungarian birth, Szigeti, a child prodigy, moved to Budapest to study with Jenö Hubay, following which he embarked on an international concert career. He was a champion of new music and the dedicatee of many contemporary works; among the pieces written for him are Bartók's Rhapsody No. 1, Bloch's Violin Concerto, and Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata No. 1.

New York: William Hall & Son. 353 x 270 mm. Somewhat worn and browned; chipped at edges; small handstamp to lower left margin. D'Avignon (ca. 1813-1861), born in France, was active in America from 1840 to 1860. He went into partnership with Mathew Brady in 1849 and went on to publish the noted Gallery of Illustrious Americans in 1850 reproducing Brady's daguerrotypes. "Mr. D'Avignon has incontestably no superior in the world as a lithographer." The Daguerrotype: An archive of source texts, graphics, and ephemera in the research archive of Gary W. Ewer. From the website of the Daguerreotype Archive.

1625. 167 x 99 mm. Slightly browned and spotted. Apparently drawn from life according to a note in the plate: "Iacob ab Heydé Sculpsit ad Vivum." Reproduced in MGG Vol. 14 col. 174. "Walliser's several musical appointments and his compositions show him to have been the most important musician in Strasbourg during the period 1600-50. In addition, the wide dispersion of his works attests to his reputation elsewhere." Clyde William Young and Édith Weber in Grove Music Online.

London: Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co, 1817. Folio. Disbound. [i] (title), 2-7 pp. Engraved. RISM H771 Together with: Hailstone Chorus [for voice and piano] Composed by G.F. Handel. London: G. Walker, [WM 1817]. Folio. Disbound. [i] (blank), 2-4 pp. Engraved. RISM H574 Spines of both works archivally reinforced. Thomas Haigh (1769-1808) was an "English composer, violinist and pianist. It is possible that he was the violinist, Mr Haigh, who played in the theatre band in Manchester ... By the early 1790s he was in London. He studied with Haydn during the latter's first visit to London in 1791-2 and dedicated his violin sonatas opp. 8 and 10 to his famous master. He also arranged many of Haydn's works (for instance Symphonies nos. 70 and 81 and the Armida overture) for the piano. From 1793 to 1801 he lived in Manchester (he is sometimes known as 'Thomas Haigh of Manchester'); Doane's Musical Directory of 1794 describes him as a violinist and pianist of Manchester who took part in the Handelian… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Original publisher's full brown cloth with titling gilt to spine. 1243 pp. With numerous musical examples. Rear hinge split. Dustjacket worn.