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198331361Paris: Gallimard 1983. Hardcover. VG/VG. Red cloth white ill. DJ covered with clear plastic. 445 pp. many maps. 400 bw and color ills. Text in French. An exhaustive survey of art and architecture in Western Europe during the time period of 1060-1220 roughly the time of the crusades; Examines sculpture mosaics architecture painting and more in areas such as France England Germany the Iberian Peninsula and others. Gallimard hardcover books
1982121562Paris: Gallimard 1982. Hardcover. VG Some slight discoloration to dj. Red cloth over boards; Gilt titling to spine and front cover; Color pictorial dj.; 388 pp.; 4 gatefolds; 464 color and bw plates and figures. Text in French; Part of the "Le Monde Roman" series; A wonderful richly illustrated guide to the art and architecture of Europe during the time of 1060-1220 roughly the time of the crusades. Gallimard hardcover books
1981173155Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux 1981. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. Blue cloth boards with black stamped lettering. 461 pp. BW and color illustrations. Text in French. Includes index. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 9 1981 to February 1 1982. Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux hardcover books
38212Boston: Ditson. Large 4to 184. AEG. Exterior worn cover detached. Some offsetting on music pages but interior VG. Ditson unknown books
1928018491München: Georg Müller 1928. xi 454p. b/w illus. slightly chipped dj. Georg Müller unknown books
331691 page. Small octavo 131 x 100 mm. Dated "Paris 10 avril" 1845. In French. <br/><br/>Chopin plans to leave Paris within three weeks most probably for Nohant George Sand's summer estate and tells his correspondent that he will be back in September or October. He thanks the addressee for the "good memories" and sends compliments to her aunt:<br/><br/>"Je pars dans 10 ou 20 jours - Je reviens au mois de 7-embre ou 8-bre. Je vous remercie pour votre bon souvenir - et croyez-mois toujours dévoué Chopin Mille compliments à Mme votre tante." <br/><br/>Very slightly worn; light vertical crease; minor remnants of adhesive to blank lower left corner; very slight staining to blank lower margin.<br/><br/>Together with:<br/>A bust-length portrait etching of the composer by the German artist Wilhelm Pech 1876- image size 120 x 95 mm. sheet size 199 x 150 mm. Signed "W. Pech" in pencil at lower right below image. Upper margin slightly abraided and with remnants of adhesive to recto and verso.<br/><br/>Provenance<br/>Previously in the collection of John and Johanna Bass founders of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Florida. Sydow: Correspondance de Frédéric Chopin La Gloire 1840-1849 no. 579. <br/><br/>The year of this letter saw the publication of opp. 57 the Berceuse for piano and 58 the Sonata for piano. "The Sonata no. 3 in B minor op. 58 - dedicated to Countess Emilie de Perthuis a friend and wife of the royal aide-de-camp - and the Berceuse were published to great critical and public acclaim. The Third Piano Sonata the last of this genre represented in the words of musicologist Anatole Leikin Chopin's reconsideration 'not only of sonata form but of the sonata genre as well' because 'his sonatas like his mazurkas or nocturnes are marked by a special musical idiom.' Zieliński believes that the Sonata no. 3 is Chopin's 'deepest' work." Szulc: Chopin in Paris pp. 302-303.<br/><br/>"Most of the winter of 1845 was a time of acute illness for Fryderyk. George Sand wrote Stefan Witwicke in Freiwald Germany late in March that between Chopin's 'coughing fits and his lessons it is difficult to find a moment of peace and silence.' About the same time she informed Ludwika Chopin's sister in Warsaw that 'our dear little one was greatly tired by the severe winter . but since the weather improved he has been completely rejuvenated and revived. Two weeks of warmth helped him more than all the medicines . "<br/><br/>" . By mid-May heat in Paris became oppressive and George and Fryderyk began to think about moving to Nohant for the summer. George had started on a new novel Isidora and hoped to complete it in peaceful Berry. Chopin too was ready to go purchasing a calèche a vehicle with a folding top to make their journey more private and pleasant than by diligences. But Dr. Papet warned them that a typhus epidemic had broken out in the region and urged a delay. Finally they left Paris on June 12 with Pauline Viardot just back from a Russian tournée joining them in Nohant a few days later." op. cit. pp. 303-305.<br/><br/>The year 1845 was important to Chopin for another reason as it marked the beginning of a major rift in his relationship with George Sand: <br/><br/>"When Chopin and Sand returned to Paris in August 1842 they moved to new accommodation in the Square d'Orléans close to their friends the Marlianis and also incidentally to Kalkbrenner and Alkan. It was a satisfactory domestic arrangement. But Chopin's health was giving cause for real concern and the relationship with Sand was deteriorating partly due to growing tensions within the family. All of this together with his inability to recapture his earlier fluency in composition contributed to his low spirits in the winter of 1843-4. But the hardest blow of all came in May 1844 when he learnt of the death of his father. Sand immediately whisked him off to Nohant but he refused to be consoled until his sister Ludwika to whom he had always been close announced her intention to visit France with her husband that summer. They met in Paris in July and the visitors divided their time between there and Nohant until they departed for Poland in early September. 'We are mad with happiness' Chopin wrote. But it was not to last. The winter season brought further strains in his relationship with Sand and when they set out for Nohant in June 1845 tensions within the family circle were beginning to come to a head." Kornel Michałowski revised by Jim Samson in Grove Music Online.<br/><br/>Chopin's correspondent may very well be his pupil the Austrian pianist Friederike Müller. <br/><br/>Friederike Müller 1816-1895 lived with three of her father's sisters in Vienna following the death of her mother. She arrived in Paris in 1839 to study with Chopin and was his pupil until 1841 and then again in the winter of 1844-1845. "She wrote a kind of diary in the form of approximately 230 letters to her Viennese aunts about her stay in Paris and her encounters with Chopin. They are an extremely valuable source for his biography . " Wikipedia.<br/><br/>Müller often passed Chopin's best wishes on to her aunt/s in her letters. Chopin dedicated his Allegro de Concert op. 46 to her. Grabowski & Rink p. 356. unknown books
183423061Paris: Maurice Schlesinger . Leipzick!: Breitkopf et Härtel . Londres: Wessel et Co: PN M.S. 1704 1834. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title i blank 2-11 i blank pp. Engraved. Price: "6 f." Brandus handstamp to lower right corner of title.<br/><br/>Slightly foxed. First French edition later issue the first issue was published by Pleyel. Grabowski-Rink 17-1a-Sm. Chomiński-Turło p. 115. Hoboken 4 249. <br/><br/>Schlesinger acquired a portion of Pleyel's business including editions and plates in 1834. [PN M.S. 1704] unknown books
187224862Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN 10807 1872. Folio. Disbound. 1f. series title 3-23 i publisher's catalogue: "Friedrich Chopin's Werke. Erste kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe". Series title and catalogue lithographed; music engraved.<br/><br/>Series title: Friedr. Chopin's Concerte und Concertstücke für das Pianoforte mit Begleitung des Orchesters. Ausgabe für zwei Pianoforte. Das der Originalstimme beigefügte zweite Pianoforte in der Bearbeitung von Carl Reinecke . 5.<br/><br/>Former owner's signature to upper right corner of title: "Mr Egner." Rehearsal letters added in pencil. <br/><br/>Spine reinforced with paper tape. Series title repaired; most leaves detached; some fraying to upper and outer edges; several leaves closely trimmed. First Edition later issue of this arrangement; part of Breitkopf & Härtel's first complete edition of Chopin's works. Dated according to prices in Mark. Not in Grabowski-Rink. Chomiński-Turło p. 107. Kobylańska p. 43.<br/><br/>Despite the attribution on the title the reduction of the present work was the work of August Horn 1825-1893. Rink: Chopin The Piano Concertos p. 35 dates Horn's arrangement specifically commissioned by Breitkopf to 1860-64. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN 10807] unknown books
187923069Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN C. XII.5 1879. Folio. Unbound. 1f. series title: "Friedrich Chopin's Werke. Erste kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe Band XII. Concerte und Concertstücke für das Pianoforte mit Begleitung des Orchesters . No. 5. Zweites Concert Op. 21 F moll. Partitur" 68 ii blank pp. Series title lithographed music engraved. No price. Date to foot of p. 1: "Ausgegeben 1879." <br/><br/>Browned; some margins heavily stained; edges frayed; some offsetting; series title detached and torn at edges. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN C. XII.5] unknown books
188023074Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel PN C. XII.6 1880. Folio. Unbound. 1f. series title: "Friedrich Chopin's Werke. Erste kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe Band XII. Concerte und Concertstücke für das Pianoforte mit Begleitung des Orchesters" 27 iii blank pp. Series title lithographed music engraved. No price. <br/><br/>Browned; blank lower margins stained; edges frayed; some edges slightly chipped; some offsetting. Chomiński-Turło p. 165 includes date. Breitkopf & Härtel [PN C. XII.6] unknown books
185523081Leipsic: Breitkopf & Härtel . Paris: Brandus & Co . Londres: Wessel & Co: PNs 5832 5833 1855. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title 3-31 i blank pp. Title lithographed music engraved. Price: "1 Thlr. 15 Ngr." Publisher's and "Scharfenberg & Luis New York" handstamps to foot of title.<br/><br/>Minor foxing and browning; slight loss to blank lower corner of final leaf; Scharfenberg handstamp slightly cropped. Second German edition second issue. Grabowski-Rink 25/1-6-2a-B&H. Chomiński-Turło p. 90. Hoboken 4 276.<br/><br/>The firm of Scharfenberg & Luis was active from 1845-66. See Howe: "Music Publishers of New York before 1850" reprinted November 1917 from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library September 1917 p. 1. [PNs 5832, 5833] unknown books
185423100Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel . Paris: Troupenas . Londres: Wessel: PN 8728 1854. Folio. Disbound with remnants of sewing. 1f. title 3-5 i blank pp. Title lithographed music engraved. Price: "10 Ngr." Publisher's handstamp to foot of title. <br/><br/>Edges browned and frayed; occasional staining. Third German edition. Not in Grabowski-Rink but see reference to third edition in description of: 35/3-1c-B&H. Chomiński-Turło p. 447 second of three separate Breitkopf editions of the funeral march distinguished by plate number and absence of footnote to p. 3. Hoboken 4 336. [PN] 8728 unknown books
186523096Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel . Paris: Troupenas & Co . Londres: Wessel & Co: PN 8728 1865. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title 3-5 i blank pp. Lithographed. Price: "10 Ngr." Publisher's and "Scharfenberg & Luis New York" handstamps to foot of title. Footnote to p. 3: "Stich und Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig." <br/><br/>With pencilled fingerings articulations notational corrections and other markings.<br/><br/>Leaves detached; edges browned; tear to margin of first leaf of music with no loss. Lithographic reprint of the third German edition of 1853/54. Not in Grabowski-Rink; 35-1d-B&H should read: 35/3-1d-B&H is lithographed but otherwise different. Chomiński-Turło p. 447 third of three separate Breitkopf editions of the funeral march distinguished by footnote to p. 3. Not in Hoboken.<br/> <br/>The firm of Scharfenberg & Luis was active from 1845-66. See Howe: "Music Publishers of New York before 1850" reprinted November 1917 from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library September 1917 p. 1. [PN] 8728 unknown books
184130833Paris: Maurice Schlesinger. Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel. Londres: Wessel et Stapelton: PN M.S. 3481 1841. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title i blank 2-15 i blank pp. Engraved. Price: "7f. 50." Publisher's handstamp to lower right corner of title. <br/><br/>Very slightly foxed; spine of outer biofilium reinforced with Japanese archival paper. First French edition second issue. Grabowski-Rink 46-1a-Sm. Chomiński-Turło p. 70. Not in Hoboken. [PN M.S. 3481] unknown books
184124900Paris: Maurice Schlesinger. Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel. Londres: Wessel et Stapelton: PN M.S. 3481 1841. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title i blank 2-15 i blank pp. Engraved. Publisher's facsimile signature handstamp to lower right corner of title. <br/><br/>Some minor foxing; lower inner corners slightly dampstained. First French edition second issue. Grabowski-Rink 46-1a-Sm. Chomiński-Turło p. 70. Kobylańska German p. 105. Not in Hoboken. [PN M.S. 3481] unknown books
195531634Krakow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne 1955. Oblong folio 220 x 290 mm. Original publisher's ivory printed wrappers. Vol. I: 1f. title iii-vii pp. commentary in Polish Russian French and English i 1-12 facsimile i pp. In dustjacket.<br/><br/>Slightly browned. Dustjacket torn with minor loss. In the series Faksymilowane wydanie autografow F. Chopina - zeszyt 7. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne unknown books
184523126Paris: J. Meissonnier . Londres: Wessel et Cie . Leipzig: Breitkopf et Hartel: PN J.M. 2186 1845. Folio. Unbound. 1f. title 5 i blank pp. Engraved by A. Vialon. Price: "5 f." Publisher's handstamp to lower right corner of title.<br/><br/>Slightly worn; minor dampstaining to upper portions of each leaf; one fingering digit "4" added in pencil to p. 4. First French edition second issue. Grabowski-Rink 57-1a-MEIj and plate 157. Chomiński-Turło p. 77. Hoboken 4 428 first issue. [PN] J.M. 2186 unknown books
184523128Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel . Paris: J. Meissonnier . Londres: Wessel & Stapleton: PN 7259 1845. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title 3-7 i blank pp. Title lithographed music engraved. Price: "15 Ngr." With publisher's handstamp to foot of title.<br/><br/>Slightly worn soiled and creased; title slightly foxed. Second German edition. Grabowski-Rink 57-2-B&H. Chomiński-Turło p. 77. Hoboken 4 425 erroneously identified as "first German edition 1845". [PN] 7259 unknown books
185423127Paris: J. Meissonnier. Londres: Wessel et Cie. Leipzig: Breitkopf et Hartel: PN J.M. 2186 1854. Folio. Disbound. 1f. title 5 i advertisement pp. Title and music engraved by A. Vialon advertisement typeset. Price: "5 f." Publisher's handstamp to foot of title.<br/><br/>Slightly soiled; some bleeding and offsetting; crudely trimmed. First French edition second issue later state. Not in Grabowski-Rink but see 57-1a-MEIj. Chomiński-Turło p. 77. Not in Hoboken.<br/><br/>Dated based on the advertisement which lists pedagogical publications seven of which are identified as "approved by the Institute at its meeting of September 2 1854." Three further publications are identified as "adopted by the Paris conservatory at the meeting of July 5 1854. [PN] J.M. 2186 unknown books
187523135S. Pétersbourg: A. Büttner PN 741. 1875. Folio. Disbound. 1f. series title 3-7 i blank pp. Series title lithographed music engraved. Price: "80c." <br/><br/>"Valse brillante" on series title underlined in blue pencil. Extensive fingering and other markup in pencil in an unknown hand. <br/><br/>Slightly worn soiled browned and frayed; leaves partially detached. A later Russian edition. <br/><br/>Dated based on the works listed on the series title; the posthumous "Dernier nocturne" in C-sharp minor was not published until 1875. A. Büttner [PN 741.] unknown books
195833848Warsaw: Instytut Fryderyka Chopina 1958. Octavo. Boards. 309 ii pp. Slightly worn and soiled. <br/><br/>Contains scholarly articles on Chopin in French Germanl and Russian. Instytut Fryderyka Chopina unknown books
183318021Paris: Chez Maurice Schlesinger 1833. First Edition. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 1er Concerto pour le Piano avec accompagnement d'orchestre dedié à Monsieur F. Kalkbrenner par Fréd. Chopin. Op. 11. Disbound upright folio. 44 pp. PN M. S. 1409. From the collection of Alfred Cortot with his green stamp to the lower right of the title. Occasional fingerings and other annotations in pencil. Notes on the verso of the last page in pencil in French indicate that this copy belonged to pianist Antoine François Marmontel and suggest that the fingerings may be in his hand. Translated from the French: "This copy belonged to Marmontel judging by the dedications of the pieces bound in the same volume. Perhaps the notes in pencil are from Marmontel." Toning and foxing; wear to the spine; overall very good. 10 x 13.25 inches 25.5 x 34 cm. Grabowski & Rink 11-1-Sm. A historic copy having been owned by two of the most important pianists in history. <br style="">Pianist teacher and musicologist Antoine François Marmontel became Professor of Keyboard at the Paris Conservatory in 1848 succeeding Pierre Zimmermann and beating out his former teacher Charles-Valentin Alkan. He achieved renown as a pedagogue; among his many notable students were Georges Bizet Vincent D'Indy and Claude Debussy. Marmontel was the author of a large number of pedagogical works as well as musicological works which are among the best sources for the history of the piano and pianists.<br style="">One of the 20th century's most influential — yet inimitable — classical figures Alfred Cortot was born in 1877 in Switzerland to a French father and a Swiss mother and he based his long career as a pianist conductor and teacher in Paris. Cortot was one of his era's most renowned interpreters of Chopin his best recordings setting an enduring standard for poetry in motion. In 1925 the pianist made the first electrical recording of classical music for the Victor label in New Jersey featuring music by Chopin and Schumann. Among his hundreds of subsequent recordings was the first complete version of Chopin's Preludes Op. 28. In holding up Cortot as a paragon of Chopin playing even decades after his death The New York Times described his method as combining "lucidity with spontaneity. It is almost modern in its lack of sentimentality and attention to structure; yet it is unmistakably Romantic in its insistence on freedom and variety. Each line is suffused with subtle detail with interior contours and dynamic shadings. But these are not indulgent ornaments; they reveal rather than cloud the music's intentions." <br style=""><br style="">The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 was composed in 1830 when Chopin was twenty years old and was first performed on 11 October of that year at the Teatr Narodowy the National Theatre in Warsaw Poland with the composer as soloist during one of his "farewell" concerts before leaving Poland. The first of Chopin's two piano concertos to be published it was therefore given the designation of Piano Concerto "No. 1" at the time of publication even though it was actually written immediately after the premiere of what was later published as Piano Concerto No. 2. Chez Maurice Schlesinger unknown books
13595NY MACMILLAN 1949. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. NY, MACMILLAN, 1949 unknown books
19751338543Antwerp: Guy Schraenen 1975. Softcover. Large Octavo; 8 pages; G; Stiff black wrappers with red text; Covers have creasing along spine and bending along tail edge of spine; Signed and numbered #174 by Henri Chopin on inside of rear cover; Henri Chopin was a French Avant Garde artis in the 1950s-70s; Shelved Case 0. 1338543. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Guy Schraenen unknown books
197454620London: The Architectural Association School of Architecture 1974. First edition. 29 1/2 x 20 inch illustrated broadside printed in three colors. Four old folds else near fine. A bold presentation for this schedule of events featuring John Heath-Stubbs Peter Mayer Stefan Themerson Hidé Ishiguro Brian Jeffery Henri Chopin and George MacBeth. London: The Architectural Association School of Architecture, unknown books