Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Schubertiade

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

Budapest: Rózsavölgyi & Cie., [1909]. First Edition in score. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Miniature score of Bartók's Quartet no. 1, op. 7 (BB 52, Sz 40, W 20, Somfai 308.) [PN] R. & Co. 3287. 38 pp. 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm). Two slight creases to the cover, some toning; overall in fine condition.The work was at least in part inspired by Bartók's unrequited love for the violinist Stefi Geyer - in a letter to her, he called the first movement a "funeral dirge," and its opening notes trace a motif which first appeared in his Violin Concerto No. 1, a work dedicated to Geyer and suppressed by Bartók for many years. The intense contrapuntal writing of this movement is often compared to Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14, the opening movement of which is a slow fugue.

Los Angeles: Artists Music, Inc. , 1955. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Fine copy of the celebrated song, "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" from Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much," boldly signed on the cover by the film's leading man, James Stewart. Upright folio. 3pp.  In fine condition. Written by the songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, the song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film "The Man Who Knew Too Much," with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles. Day's recording of the song for Columbia Records was a hit in both the United States— where it made it to number two on the Billboard charts—and the United Kingdom. From 1968 to 1973, it was the theme song for the situation comedy The Doris Day Show, becoming her signature song. The song received the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song with the alternative title "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)". It was the third Oscar in this category for Livingston and Evans, who previously won… Read More