Search Results: Authors starting with K from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. AMQS by the celebrated Broadway composer, eight measures from the iconic title song of Cabaret; one staff, without text or caption.  Inscribed, "Best of luck to you, Steve / Yours, John Kander."  Dated April 7, 1982.  Upper half of sheet torn from a spiral-bound 12-staff pad.  5.5 x 8.5 inches (14.2 x 21.5 cm).  Unevenly cut lower edge; else in fine condition.Cabaret (1966) was Kander's second collaboration with Fred Ebb and instantly became a classic of its genre. 

Paris: Collection Pierre Corrard, 1914. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Folio (321 x 270mm.), unnumbered copy from the limited edition of 512 copies of this poetic tribute to the great Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, where she was Nijinsky's chief partner.  Illustrated by George Barbier with 12 full-page pochoir colored plates in his characteristic Art Deco style. Text in French. Luxuriously bound in full pebbled black and brown leather, contained in a protective glassine cover and white card slipcase.  Light foxing and staining throughout, overall a very good copy."Tamara Karsavina became a legend in her own lifetime. Her technical perfection, wit, rare intelligence, and deep feeling made her a prima ballerina for all times" (Andros). Famed choreographer George Balanchine remembers being captivated by her when he was a student at the Imperial Ballet School in… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Vintage J. Abresch of NY 8 x 10 inch publicity photograph, stamped 1945 to verso and with an affixed clipping promoting an upcoming NY Town Hall appearance. With some toning to upper edge and small areas of in-painting from publication, else fine. The American violinist was possibly the most recorded musical artist of the 20th century. He played the soundtrack on as many as 500 movies and over 100 musical recordings. He is also credited with reviving the music of Antonio Vivaldi with his recording of The Four Seasons in 1947, which won the Grand Prix du Disque in 1950, was elected to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002, and in 2003 was selected for the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed MGM promotional photograph of the American dancer and actor from the 1948 film Words and Music.  Kelly has inscribed "To Paul / Gene Kelly" in black ink.  Very fine condition.  8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.).From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy's Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications. 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed check penned and signed by the highly regarded American songwriter best known for the musical Showboat and for such standards as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." Personal check, 8.25 x 3 inches (21 x 7.7 cm), filled out and signed by Kern, "Jerome D. Kern," payable to the stenographer firm of Tausig & Lewis for $159.00, September 14th, 1939. Check is endorsed on reverse by Tausig & Lewis. Expected cancellation holes just slightly affecting the signature, generally fine.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Striking Gagosian Gallery framed poster with date and locations "May 3 - June 8, 2013 West 21st New York" and "October 12, 2012 - March 16, 2013 Le Bourget Paris," boldly signed in black ink to the lower edge by the important German artist.  26.5 x 38.5 inches (67 x 98 cm.); framed to 28.25 x 40.5 inches (71.5 x 103 cm.).Throughout his nearly fifty-year career, Kiefer has never been afraid to wrestle with history. His art—particularly in its worked and layered surfaces weathered by time and nature—is a visceral and poetic consideration of the past as a means to understand our collective present and, by implication, our future. His monumental series of works, both in sculpture and paint, Morgenthau Plan reference a plan, devised by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau during World War II, to destroy Germany's factories and turn the country into farmland after the Allied victory. In these works, Kiefer imagined this pastoral outcome, with postwar Germany… Read More

Rome: Francesco Corbelletti [II. Ludovico Grignani], 1650. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Musurgia Universalis sive ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta. Qua universa sonorum doctrina, et philosophia, musicaeque... aperiuntur et demonstrantur. Tomus I [-II qui continet... musicam mirificam... magiam consoni et dissoni... harmoniam mundi]. 2 parts in one volume. Folio. Part I: 1f. (fine full-page engraved pictorial title by Baronius after a drawing by Paul Schor, incorporating a Canon Angelicus for 9 choirs of 36 voices), 1f. (recto title with vignette, verso contents), 1f. (fine full-page dedicatory engraving of Leopold-Guillaume, Archduke of Austria, by Paul Ponti after Paul Schor, dated 1649), 9ff., 690 (=692) pp. + 11 numbered plates (I-X, XIII) printed on one side of each of 10 leaves; Part II: 2ff. (title with vignette, fine full-page engraved frontispiece), 462 pp. + 18 ff. (indexes and errata) + 12 numbered plates (XI-XI, XIV-XXXIII) printed on one side of each of… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed postcard photograph of the Austrian conductor widely considered one of the greatest of the twentieth century, who has signed and inscribed in gold ink, adding the date 5 V '94.  In very fine condition.  4 x 5.875 inches (10.5 x 15 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. TLS by the German-born conductor to Adam Parsons.  London, December 22, 1962.  In English.  1 p.  Stationery of Hyde Park Hotel, Knightsbridge, London.  In full: "Dear Adam Parsons, take my utmost thanks for my old recording, which you have sent to me.  As soon as I have some time I will listen to it.  / Take my best wishes for Christmas and New Year!  Sincerely yours, Klemperer."  7 x 5.75 inches (18 x 14.5 cm).  Horizontal fold, in a slender and toned older mat, easily removed and  in very good condition overall.The identity of Adam Parsons is unknown.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Etching with Drypoint, 1893, posthumous ed. unknown, printed circa 1960s. Kl. 19 Vlb, unsigned, with the A.V.D. Becke Munchen-22 dry stamp lower right, final state, plate 9-15/16 x 5-3/16, image 9-3/8 x 4-7/16, pale hint of lightening within mat opening, printed in a warm black ink on thick cream wove paper. A fine late impression with rich contrasts of this early image by Kollwitz. Otto Nagel, the author of a book on Kollwitz's self portraits, has stated that the artist observed this woman first hand, but in making the print made this a self portrait. A. von der Becke became Kollwitz's print publisher after 1931, and after von der Becke's death in 1958, his wife Johanna and son Bernhard continued the publication of prints from Kollwitz's plates from 1963-1972, with which this impression is consistent. Considered one of Germany's most important early 20th-century artists, Käthe Kollwitz captured the hardships suffered by the working class in drawings, paintings, and… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An amusing large original drawing signed by the prolific New Yorker Cartoonist, showing eight different examples of his signature fuzzy creatures. Signed "Koren" in pencil to the lower right corner.  Light toning and wear along the edges; overall fine.  30.25 x 22.25 inches (77 x 56.5 cm.).The New Yorker officially accepted one of his cartoons in 1962, establishing the beginning of Koren's career. Since, thousands of his drawings and cartoons have been published in The New Yorker. When asked about the inspiration for his furry creatures, Koren remarks, "during the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, an avalanche of hirsutism and fuzziness took over the nation...Long hair, wild hairdos, exuberant facial appendages were everywhere as expressions of social rebellion, political revolt, and a general questioning of everything established." (The New Yorker, Ed Koren's Avalanche of Furriness).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A pristine early sepia postcard photograph of the young composer, signed in the blank lower margin with a four-bar AMQS with holograph title and lyrics from his operatic score based on symbolist Georges Rodenbach's phantasmagoric novel Bruges-la-morte. Composed by Korngold when he was just 23, its tremendous success heralded him as one of German opera's most promising talents. The photograph, a 1/2-length seated portrait by Madame d'Ora, shows Korngold in profile with head turned toward camera. On the verso is an ANS, signed "EWK," to Miss Katz, in German, sending thanks and warm greetings. 4 1/4x3 1/4 inches (image), 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches overall. Very fine. As nice as it gets!

New York: Carl Fischer. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed sheet music from the beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth who was one of the most important musicians of the last century. Kreisler's graceful Caprice Viennois, parts for violin and piano, boldly signed "Fritz Kreisler / 1935" across the front wrappers. Wrappers shipped around the edges, both parts in very good condition. Upright folio. 9 1/8 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm). 7 pp; 3pp. [PN] 29033. Light toning, outer wrappers with tears around edges and spine, else fine. Signed sheet music of Kreisler is considerably less common than signed photographs. This is only one of a few examples we've encountered. No less of a figure than the late Joseph Silverstein, the longtime concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, declared that the Caprice Viennois was the hardest of all of Fritz Kreisler's "bonbons" to play, for the seemingly-effortless music is devilishly difficult to pull off! As Blair Johnston (All Music… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed halftone postcard portrait of the great Austrian violinist.  Signed to foot (partly in margin) with autograph date "1944".  5.5 x 3.25 inches (13.7 x 8.5 cm).  Somewhat foxed, else in very good condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A beautiful original portrait photograph of the beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth who was one of the most important musicians of the last century. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm), signed in pencil by the photographer, "M (T?)ossuth." Slight wear to corners and edges, otherwise fine.

New York: Carl Fischer. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed sheet music from the beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth who was one of the most important musicians of the last century. Kreisler's graceful and ever-popular Caprice Viennois, arranged here for piano solo, boldly inscribed and signed "Fritz Kreisler" across the front cover of the music, followed by the year 1938.  Upright folio. 9 1/8 x 12 inches (23 x 30.5 cm). 7 pp. [PN] 18712-5. Light toning, overall fine. Signed sheet music of Kreisler is considerably less common than signed photographs. This is only one of a few examples we've encountered. No less of a figure than the late Joseph Silverstein, the longtime concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, declared that the Caprice Viennois was the hardest of all of Fritz Kreisler's "bonbons" to play, for the seemingly-effortless music is devilishly difficult to pull off! As Blair Johnston (All Music Guide) goes on to note, "The piece is a caprice in the real… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Bound upright folio. Lithographed. Mainz: B. Schotts Söhne, n.d. [1820s]. 51 pp. Bilingual edition, with title and all instructions in French and German. Signature with date, "Leopold Kauffm[ann] Hamburg 1836," to right head of title. Bowing and articulation in pencil to p. 3. 12.5 x 9.25 inches (31.3 x 23.6 cm). Half leather; upper board lost. Title damp stained to head and somewhat soiled. Fol. 4 (pp. 7-8) torn to gutter and with small ink stains. Some foxing.WorldCat lists only two copies, at the Juilliard School and and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. This is an especially intriguing copy with interesting provenance. The German politician Leopold Kaufmann was an amateur musician and included among his friends Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt, and the poet Gottfried Kinkel. They with his future wife Johanna, née Mockel, founded a poetical society called the "Maikäferbund". On the occasion of the first Beethoven festival and of the unveiling… Read More

Third edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Sewn upright folio. Engraved. Berlin: Charles Paez, n.d. [1808?]. 49 pp. Bilingual edition, with all instructions in French and German (not same translation as in Schott's edition) but title in French only. Signature "Karl Henkel" in ink to right foot of title. Handstamp and shelf mark of unidentified library to left foot. Some markup in pencil, blue and red crayon and ink. 12.5 x 10 inches (31.3 x 25.8 cm). Browned; edges frayed. Title leaf stained and partly detached. Outer edge slightly damp stained.Not much is known about the violinist Karl Henkel, who lived in the late nineteenth century—probably in Frankfurt, where his father, Heinrich Henkel (1822-1899) had moved in 1860. Karl Henkel once owned the "Costa" violin of 1764 that is believed to have been played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. See http://drehpunktkultur.at/index.php/musik/meldungen-kritiken/6472-geigentoene-wie-sie-mozart-im-ohr-hatte (in German).The French violinist and composer… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Disbound upright folio. Engraved. London: C. Wheatstone, n.d. [1808?]. 49 pp. Edition with title and all instructions in English. 12.5 x 9.75 inches (32 x 24.5 cm). Engraved throughout, no PN. Annotations in pencil in and blue crayon to head of title, partly illegible but twice containing the name "Blagrove" (once "Mr. Blagrove") and the second, perhaps an inscription to "J. Ela," which we believe to have been the eminent British violinist, critic and concert manager John Ella. Occasional marks in pencil, light foxing, else fine.Rare. WorldCat lists only one copy, at the University of Colorado in Boulder (tentatively dated "1808"). The first 40 studies are Kreutzer's original set. The authorship of the final ten is not known; "F. Rodolphe" sounds like a pseudonym. The present copy seems to have been belonged to English violinist Henry Blagrove (1811-1872), who enjoyed some fame in his lifetime, both in England and on the European continent. He was one of the students… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Disbound upright folio. Engraved. Paris: Chapelle, n.d. [after 1800]. [PN] 5. Title, fol.1r blank, 8 pp. Publisher's signature, "Chapelle," to right foot of title (bleeding through!). With overpaste of Frère, Paris. First edition. 13 x 10 inches (33 x 25.3 cm). In fine condition. The work was composed around 1790. The French violinist and composer Rodolphe Kreutzer was one of the most famous and influential virtuosos of his time. From 1795 he was professor at the Paris Conservatory, and from 1801 to 1821 he was concertmaster and director of music of the Paris Opera. At this time, Kreutzer wrote about 40 operas and numerous works for violin. In 1803, he published together with Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode and Pierre Marie François Baillot the "Méthode de violon" ("System for the violin"), which soon after had become the official manual of exercises for the violin at the Paris Conservatory. Kreutzer befriended Ludwig van Beethoven during his visit to Vienna in 1798 and… Read More