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HERBERT, Victor (1859-1924). Autograph manuscript score signed ("Victor Herbert"), comprising 52 bars, an instrumental composition entitled "A Wedding Procession," from an un-named work, with several erasure and corrections by the composer, n.p., n.d.
3 pages, folio, boldly titled at head, signed at top right of page 1. Autograph score for piano, marked "Nr.5," with performance instructions: "Very moderate march-time Very gaily." Herbert was not chiefly engaged in composition until 1904, having been employed as first cellist at the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1886 and conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1898 to 1904. He achieved his major success with his melodious operettas, including Babes in Toyland (1903), The Red Mill (1906), Sweethearts (1913) and Eileen (1917). Herbert was a very prolific composer for the theatre, writing well over 50 full scores for the stage, in addition to numbers for the Ziegfeld Follies and elaborate private skits for entertainments of the Lambs, a theatrical club as well as instrumental music for his own performance as a cellist or for the Victor Herbert Orchestra.
3 pages, folio, boldly titled at head, signed at top right of page 1. Autograph score for piano, marked "Nr.5," with performance instructions: "Very moderate march-time Very gaily." Herbert was not chiefly engaged in composition until 1904, having been employed as first cellist at the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1886 and conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1898 to 1904. He achieved his major success with his melodious operettas, including Babes in Toyland (1903), The Red Mill (1906), Sweethearts (1913) and Eileen (1917). Herbert was a very prolific composer for the theatre, writing well over 50 full scores for the stage, in addition to numbers for the Ziegfeld Follies and elaborate private skits for entertainments of the Lambs, a theatrical club as well as instrumental music for his own performance as a cellist or for the Victor Herbert Orchestra.