Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MUSICIANS.) Group of 4 items Signed or Signed and Inscribed: Sergei Rachmaninoff * Aaron Copland * Henryk Górecki * Thomas Beecham. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Rachmaninoff. Program for concert at Pickwick Theatre on February 12, 1940 Signed, "S. Rachmaninoff," vertically on third page. 8vo, sheet folded forming 4 pages. Np, [February 1940] • Copland. TLS, to Diane L. Rubbelke, declining to accept commission for pastoral work for solo recorder. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery. With the original envelope. Peekskill, 26 May 1977 • Górecki. FDC commemorating 50th anniversary of ASCAP with AMQS, "H.M. Górecki," the first 5 bars of his third symphony, notated on a hand-ruled stave, with holograph tempo directive. 3¾x6½ inches; "American Music" 5-cent postage stamp cancelled in New York on October 15, 1964. Katowice, 10 January 1997 • Beecham. Program for concert at Stoll Theatre on October 14, 1945 Signed, below his printed name on first page. 12mo, two folded sheets forming 8 pages. Np, [October 1945]; signature: circa 1945.