Search Results: Authors starting with F from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Autograph musical quotation from the influential Spanish composer, who has penned two measures from his puppet-opera El retablo de maese Pedro, identified as "Retablo," signed below and dated 1931. One staff, two measures (3/4 or 6/8), marked Lento, mounted on cardboard.  Oblong format, 3.75 x 4 inches (9.7 x 10.5 cm).  Mounted to rigid backing with remnants to verso and identification to upper edge, else in very good condition. Together with a period sepia postcard photograph of the composer. El retablo de maese Pedro ("Master Peter's Puppet Show") is a puppet-opera in one act with a prologue and epilogue, composed by Manuel de Falla to a Spanish libretto based on an episode from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The libretto is an abbreviation of chapter 26 of the second part of Don Quixote, with some lines added from other parts of the work. Because of its brief length by operatic standards (about 27 minutes), its very challenging part for a boy opera… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. TLS of the legendary Italian filmmaker to Manuel Rosenthal, one of the most influential and respected French conductors of the 20th century. Rome, August 6, 1973. 1 p. Fellini responds to a "proposition" by Rosenthal to stage Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges. Excerpt, translated from French: "As I told you, I am interested both in Colette's libretto and in the score. However, the restricted space of a theatrical stage frightens me. I am used to the unlimited spaces that the technology of cinema provides, and I am afraid I would not succeed in responding to the demands of an Italian stage and to those of a predetermined deadline."11 x 7.75 inches (28.4 x 19.5 cm). Punch holes to left margin. Otherwise in fine condition.Fellini won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Film four times, more than anyone else, and an honorary Academy Award in addition. But throughout his life he showed little interest in the stage and remained devoted to the screen. He never… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Advertising brochure with title "Paris de Paree: The Original Albert Alberta Sex Family. The European Enigma." Four pages as folded, 9.5 x 12.5 in. A few folds, but overall very good.  Last page with "Albert-Alberta's" autobiographical information. S/he claimed to have been born in 1899 in France and named Alberta at birth. Brought up as a girl, about the age of 10 (plus a few months), the two sides of her body began growing out of proportion, eventually developing male characteristics on the right and female characteristics on the left. There followed four normal siblings, then a young brother, named Albert. At birth a beautiful baby boy (in Alberta's words), but at the age of seven, one breast grew, and at the age of 14, the other breast grew, then later, the neck lengthened and smoothed (changes occurring every seven years according to Alberta). Otherwise, he was a perfectly formed athletic male. They took their show on the road as the "Albert Alberta Sex Family" in… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A very rare early signed trimmed program from the marvelous French violinist, mounted together with two small original photographs from the event, the program cover, and the signature of his long-time collaborator, pianist Pierre Barbizet. The then only eighteen-year-old Ferras has signed boldly in pink ink across the typewritten trimmed program, "En souvenir de Christian Ferras," and two small original snapshots of him playing and signing autographs have been mounted beside the signature. Above and on the facing hinged mat, the cover and another image from the concert program are mounted, together with a small autograph signature and address of the pianist, Pierre Barbizet. The concert took place on December 15, 1951, in Helmstedt, Germany, and included the Brahms violin sonata op. 108. Light toning and wrinkling to the autograph, otherwise in fine condition. Autograph size approx. 6.5 x 5 inches (16.2 x 12.5 cm); total size of each of two hinged pages 8.25 x 11.75… Read More

Brunswick: Magazin de Musique de Spehr, 1818. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed Fayer of Wien photograph of the great contralto, who has inscribed "With my best wishes, / Very Sincerely Kathleen Ferrier" in black ink to the lower margin.  Photographer's stamp to verso.  In fine condition, with slight toning to verso.  3.4 x 5.15 inches (8.6 x 13 cm.). Uncommon.Bruno Walter wrote of Ferrier "No summit of solemnity was inaccessible to her, and it was particularly music of spiritual meaning that seemed her most personal domain."

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Rare autograph signature from the great contralto who died so tragically young, signed in black ink to a card.  Mounting remnants to verso, trimmed upper corners, else in fine condition.  6.5 x 5 inches (16.5 x 12.7 cm.).Bruno Walter wrote of Ferrier "No summit of solemnity was inaccessible to her, and it was particularly music of spiritual meaning that seemed her most personal domain."

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Group of eleven ca. 1930's–1940's black and white photographs, with graphic design featuring rolls of film, bands, instruments, dancers and singers, and musical notation. These transition or background photographs were used in an unidentified, evidently music-themed, film, to transition from one sequence to another, or possibly in a film credits montage. Edge wear and rather buckled; overall very good. Each 11 x 14 inches (35.3 x 28 cm).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed portrait photograph of the German baritone, who has crisply penned his name in black ink.  Light wear to margins, including half-inch tear to upper right corner.  Overall in 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. Early Bruno of Hollywood sepia postcard photograph of the legendary jazz singer ca. 1955, signed "Best Wishes / Ella Fitzgerald." Tiny nick to lower margin, staining to verso, a very faint crease and signature a little light, else fine.  3.5 x 5.5 inches (8.9 x 14 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Pristine vintage glossy black and white promotional photograph of the great singer, known as the "First Lady of Song," widely regarded as one of the finest jazz vocalists of all time. Signed and inscribed in fountain pen "To Paul / Best Wishes / Ella Fitzgerald." In very fine condition.  8 x 10 inches (20.7 x 25.5 cm).The photograph is a promotional image from the 1955 musical crime film Pete Kelly's Blues. Based on the 1951 radio series, it was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role of a bandleader and musician. Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Edmond O'Brien as a gangster who applies pressure to Kelly. Peggy Lee portrays alcoholic jazz singer Rose Hopkins (a performance for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role). Ella Fitzgerald makes a cameo as singer Maggie Jackson. Lee Marvin, Martin Milner, and Jayne Mansfield also make early career appearances.From the… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Book of paper dolls modeled on the American film and television actress, who has signed to inside cover in purple felt-tip.  The paper doll outfits throughout draw inspiration from not only Fleming's personal wardrobe, but films in which she starred, including Gunfight at the OK Corral, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Serpent of the Nile.  In very fine condition.  8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 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. Poignant and unusual cabinet card photograph by Spurr of Creston, Iowa showing (presumably) a memorial arrangement on display at a funeral parlor.  The tribute consists of an anchor-shaped floral arrangement, together with a flute laid across a music stand.  In the background, a woman's portrait is framed and displayed on an easel draped in black cloth.  Inscribed "flute for Christie" in pencil to the verso.  Slight foxing and some wear to the corners; overall fine.  4.25 x 6.5 inches (10.5 x 16.3 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Candid photograph of the French cellist with the English conductor Charles Groves (1915–1992) and Groves's son Jonathan (who both did not sign).  Mounted and matted, with inscription to lower margin to English orchestra manager John Charles, "To John Charles, with best wishes and sincere friendship. Pierre Fournier."  The persons are identified in the upper margin, probably in Charles's hand.  11.25 x 8.5 inches (28.3 x 21 cm).  In fine condition.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. xvii, 470 pages; numerous illustrations. Olive half calf with gilt lettering and raised bands. 7.5 x 10.25 inches (19.5 x 26 cm).  Original cloth decorated cover and spine nicely mounted to inner front board and an added front flyleaf. Half title and title with paper repairs around edges or gutter, a few pages with small tears, one page with old tape reparis, but in very good condition overall. An interesting book from a French collector of ceramics whose works were translated into several languages. The English translation is by Bury Palliser. The original French edition, Histoire du mobilier : recherches et notes sur les objets d'art qui peuvent composer l'ameublement et les collections de l'homme du monde et du curieux, was published by Hachette in Paris in 1876.