Search Results: Titles starting with V from M.B.Rare Books

Lunacharsky, A.V. In the world of music / Prepared for publication by V.D. Zeldovich.Moscow.; Petrograd.: Gosizdat, [1923]. - 90, [1] p.; 23.5x16 cm.In a publisher's illustrated avant-garde cover. Minor soiling along the edges of the cover, loss of a fragment of the spine.
Anatoly Lunacharsky - Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman, writer, translator, publicist, critic, art critic.From October 1917 to September 1929 - the first People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR, an active participant in the revolution of 1905-1907 and the October Revolution.A.V. Lunacharsky was engaged in educational activities in the field of music; he left many publications on this topic, in particular this work.

Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kots (1889-1963) — a Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, one of the world's first female zoopsychologists, co-founder of the Darwin Museum. The wife of Professor Aleksandr Kots (1880-1964) — a Doctor of Biological Sciences, founder and first director of the Darwin Museum. The study is based on the author's comparative observations of the male chimpanzee Ioni and her own son Rudy (mentioned in the autograph) from birth to the age of four. Illustrative material — numerous photographs and pen sketches from nature by the famous animal artist V. V. Vatagin.In two calico bindings with gold lettering. The attachment with the tables is assembled with a ribbon. Photo table №1 from the Appendix is woven into the book as a frontispiece. Without p. VII-VIII of the preface (absent in the entire circulation). Small contamination of the bindings, small tears of the calico on the spines. In good condition.
A rare, unique edition of its kind.

Publishing cover and title page of the work of D. I. Mitrokhin. The situation of war always needs a simplified image of reality for propaganda purposes. This book is the first study on military prints, as a separate genre of "Russian folk pictures" during the First World War. The illustrations placed in this book are created in the XVIII - early XX centuries and present the history of lithographed military historical prints.
Good condition. Missing corner (5x10 cm) of avantitle, otherwise good.

Sergej Rakhmaninov. All-Night Vigil. First edition!
Rakhmaninov Sergei. Vsenoshchnoe bdenie dlja smeshannago chora. Op. 37. Moskva, Petrograd, Paris, London, New-York, Rossijskoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1915 , 91 pages.
S.V. Rachmaninov wrote "All Night Vigil" during the First World War. The work was first performed on March 10, 1915 in the Great Hall of the Noble Assembly in Moscow (now the Column Hall of the House of Unions) by the Synodal Choir under the direction of N.M. Danilina. The composer dedicated his work to S.V. Smolensky - an outstanding church musician and choral figure.
Rachmaninov's "All-Night Vigil" belongs to the pinnacle of choral art. This music is still recognized to this day as the unsurpassed "crown of the Moscow school" of sacred music.
"All-Night Vigil" was based on ancient church chants, which existed in the practice of Orthodox worship in different versions: znamennij, Greek, Kiev, as well as the composer's own musical themes, stylistically unified with the ancient… Read More