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Containing signed photographs and autograph musical quotations by composers and musicians, 1905-1909.
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MUSICAL ALBUM
Containing signed photographs and autograph musical quotations by composers and musicians, 1905-1909.
160 x 125mm. Containing c.75 items in total, including autograph quotations by Joachim (from Brahms’ F major Quintet Op.88), Cyril Scott, Percy Grainger, German, Landon Ronald, Bantock, Fanny Davies, Coleridge-Taylor, Sauer, Backhaus, and Borwick; postcard photographs signed by Kreisler, Kubelik, Elman, Vecsey, Melba (2; one as Marguerite), Plunket Greene, Clara Butt, Kirkby Lunn, Agnes Nicholls, and Marie Brema; and signatures of Elgar (with photograph), Grieg, Busoni, Sarasate, Richter, and Richard Strauss (‘Dr Richard Strauss Birmingham 20. Dez. 1907’), (cockled and bumped at edges, some darkening). Calf binding (worn). Provenance: Laid into the album of Bertha Kohn of Handsworth, Birmingham: her ownership inscription on verso of first flyleaf – Sotheby’s, 5 December 2003, lot 44.
An album of signatures, photographs and musical quotations collected at concerts in Birmingham at the beginning of the 20th century.
Containing signed photographs and autograph musical quotations by composers and musicians, 1905-1909.
160 x 125mm. Containing c.75 items in total, including autograph quotations by Joachim (from Brahms’ F major Quintet Op.88), Cyril Scott, Percy Grainger, German, Landon Ronald, Bantock, Fanny Davies, Coleridge-Taylor, Sauer, Backhaus, and Borwick; postcard photographs signed by Kreisler, Kubelik, Elman, Vecsey, Melba (2; one as Marguerite), Plunket Greene, Clara Butt, Kirkby Lunn, Agnes Nicholls, and Marie Brema; and signatures of Elgar (with photograph), Grieg, Busoni, Sarasate, Richter, and Richard Strauss (‘Dr Richard Strauss Birmingham 20. Dez. 1907’), (cockled and bumped at edges, some darkening). Calf binding (worn). Provenance: Laid into the album of Bertha Kohn of Handsworth, Birmingham: her ownership inscription on verso of first flyleaf – Sotheby’s, 5 December 2003, lot 44.
An album of signatures, photographs and musical quotations collected at concerts in Birmingham at the beginning of the 20th century.
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