Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
INSCRIBED "RHAPSODY IN BLUE" GERSHWIN, GEORGE. Piano solo and second piano score for "Rhapsody in Blue" Signed and Inscribed, "For Mr. [Eugene?] Fuerst--with all best wishes," on the title-page. Small folio, loose in pictorial wrappers, covers detached, some chipping to front cover; minor soiling to inscribed page. (SFC) New York: Harms, 1925; inscription: Np, nd

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"Rhapsody in Blue" premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York City on February 12, 1924.