Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 11,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
INCLUDES VERDI'S AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION SIGNED FROM FALSTAFF (ALBUM.) Autograph album containing approximately 80 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by 19th- and 20th-century composers, musicians, and conductors, including Giuseppe Verdi, Victor Herbert, Edvard Grieg and Ignace Jan Paderewski, some inscribed to Mrs. F.K. Hammond. Most are Autograph Inscriptions Signed, many are Autograph Musical Quotations Signed, most on a small card mounted one to a page. Oblong 12mo, morocco, heavily worn. Vp, [1890s-1910s]
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Giuseppe Verdi. Autograph Musical Quotation dated and Signed, "G. Verdi," two bars from "Falstaff." Geneva[?], 17 April 1895 Victor Herbert. Autograph Musical Quotation dated and Signed, four bars from "Prince Ananias." Np, April [18]95 Ignace Jan Paderewski (2). The first, Inscription Signed, "To Mrs. Hammond / with kind regards of / I.J. Paderewski." The second, Signature and date, in pencil. Np, 11 Nov[ember] 1891 Edvard Grieg. Signature and date. Np, 1892 Anton Seidl. Signature and date with a Musical Quotation, a bar of "Sigfried's Horn." Springfield, 18 Jan[uary] 1893 Emma Calvé. Signature and date. Np, 1895 David Bispham. Signature, in pencil Lillian Nordica. Signature and date. Np, 20 Nov[ember] 1895 Walter Damrosch. Signature Eugen d'Albert. Signature and date. Berlin, 22 Nov[ember 18]95 Moriz Rosenthal. Autograph Inscription Signed, in German, "With Greetings and Thanks." Steinway Hall, [27 March 1899] Lilli Lehmann. Signature and date. Boston, 1899 Teresa Carreño. Autograph Inscription dated and Signed, "Yours sincerely." Np, December 1900 others.