Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929), soprano allemande.Livre Rare Book
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012561Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929), soprano allemande. L.A.S., Hambourg, 7 janvier 1901, 3p in-4. A Victor Maurel (1848-1923), baryton. Très longue lettre en français à son ami qui lui a envoyé du chocolat et les partitions de Norma, de Vincenzo Bellini, et Don Juan, de Mozart. Elle a déjà chanté le premier et espère chanter le second avec Maurel. Elle veut « s'assurer de la part de Mons. [Albert] Carré que les représentations auront lieu ». Elle se plaint ensuite du mauvais temps - elle situe d'ailleurs la lettre à « Hambourg au pol du nord » [pôle nord] -, lui signale deux récitals en février, lui déconseille d'aller à Londres, mentionne que son mari, le ténor Paul Kalish, prépare Tristan et Iseult. Très belle lettre amicale parlant longuement de leurs projets. L'amitié Lehmann/Maurel semble avoir été très importante. [250]
012569Nellie Melba (1861-1931), soprano colorature australienne pour qui Auguste Escoffier créa la fameuse pêche Melba. L.A.S., sd [1904?], 1pœ in-12. Beau chiffre avec devise en tête de la lettre. « Chère Madame, Hélas j'ai une répétition d'Hamlet à l'Orchestre mardi soir. Je suis donc forcée de renoncer à mon désir d'aller à votre concert. Je suis désolée. Mille souvenirs. Nellie Melba ». Melba joua le rôle d'Ophélie dans l'opéra Hamlet d'Ambroise Thomas en 1904. Peu commun. [251]
012548Géraldine Farrar (1882-1967), soprano et actrice américaine. L.A.S., sd [1906], 2p in-4. Longue lettre en français au critique musical Robert Brussel (1874-1940). Très intéressante lettre biographique indiquant notamment qu'elle chantera à la « fête de Mozart avec Lehmann à Salzburg ». Cette fête eut lieu du 14 au 20 août 1906 et Farrar, élève de Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929), y eut un grand succès. [250]
015419Nellie Melba (1861-1931), soprano colorature australienne pour qui Auguste Escoffier créa la fameuse pêche Melba. L.A.S., Hermitage, Monte-Carlo, sd, 1pœ in-12. « Chère Madame, Je serai enchantée de vous voir. Quand et où ? Voulez-vous luncher un jour ici ? Lundi Mercredi ou Mardi je suis libre. Je vous prie de m'envoyer l'adresse de Gabriel Fauré. Je voudrais beaucoup le voir. Votre dévouée Nellie Melba ». Peu commun. [353-2]
22341'26 April 1854. Porchester Lodge 8A Porchester Terrace Hyde Park London. 4pp 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. With embossed armorial letterhead. Good firm signature: 'Clara Novello.' An interesting letter casting light on the practical arrangement of musical concerts in Victorian Britain and Ireland. The recipient is not named and the letter begins: 'Dear Sir I have not heard from Mr. Bussell of your Concert but on receipt of your favor of the 15th. consider myself engaged to Belfast for the 1st. May.' She continues: 'I purpose singing the following unless you particularly wish any class of music especially.' She lists four pieces by Handel Mozart and Cagnoni explaining that she has 'not named any concerted piece not knowing who may be at the concert with me' and she will be obliged by a 'line to tell me which parts for orchestra you have' intending herself to 'bring those to the Can: of Cagnoni'. '26 April 1854. Porchester Lodge, 8A Porchester Terrace, Hyde Park [London]. unknown
2019Manohar-9781138729230Routledge 2019. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2019Manohar-9781138729230Routledge 2019. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
1911009679Hambourg [Paris] A fond de cale 1911 In-12 Demi-reliure
012557Kathinka Heinefetter (1819-1858), soprano allemande. L.A.S., Stuttgart, 11 octobre, 1pŒ in-8. A l'éditeur musical Marie Escudier (1819-1880). Elle lui fait part de ses succès à Stuttgart et espère qu'Escudier en parlera dans son journal, comparant ceux-ci à ceux d'Henriette Sontag quelques mois plus tôt. Elle y a chanté le rôle d'Agathe, dans La Juive, devant le « fils héritier de l'Empereur de Russie », ce qui lui valut un beau cadeau le lendemain, un bracelet. Elle annonce aussi qu'elle sera à Paris en novembre et espère qu'Escudier la recommandera. On joint un portrait gravé, issu d'un livre. [250]
015467Emma Calvé (1858-1942), soprano. L.A.S., sd, 3p in-8. Probablement au ténor Etienne Gibert (1859-1929). « J'ai parlé à [Maurice] Grau de vous. Il m'a dit qu'il vous donnerait une réponse à son retour du Hâvre dans une huitaine de jours. J'espère pour vous et pour votre Carmen [de Bizet?] que vous serez engagé. Je vous le souhaite de tout coeur. Votre dévouée Emma Calvé ». [68-2]
012590Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940), célèbre soprano italienne. L.A.S., Londres, 17 juin 1909, 2p in-8. A la comtesse de Guerne, Marie-Thérèse de Ségur (1859-1933), ami de Proust et Reynaldo Hahn, chanteuse. Elle lui envoie la « Cadence de Lucia », probablement un extrait de Lucia di Lammermoor de Donizetti, avec la partition pour piano. Il est question aussi de chanter l'air de Traviata. Elles préparent probablement une soirée à Paris, où Tetrazzani arrivera le vendredi [probablement le 25 juin]. [251]
189646401884Buenos Aires, Monkes, 1896 ; in-8, cart. impr. d’éditeur. 429 pp., 1 f. blanc, 1 f. appendice, XIII pp. de table.Histoire des guerres du XVIe siècle pour la conquête du Tucuman, établissement de la colonie espagnole dans la vallée de Catamarca, christianisation. Evolution aux XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIX e siècles ...
Features: Let's stop overdoing - Frank Pakit; Nice colour Cadillac ad; Pearl Harbor Lessons - by Samuel Eliot Morison - color photos; People on the Way Up - Steve Allen (enterprising Innovator), Anna Moffo (Grand Soprano); How to have fun in the hospital - the teenage wing at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon; The Coach who beat the Mob - Pitt's Coach, John P. Michelosen; Battle of the Big Three American TV Networks, CBS, ABC, NBC; Marion Peck - Grandmother of five heads a Fire Department; Real-Life Sherlock - Richard Leofric Jackson (Joe Jackson of the Yard) - the sophisticated ex-barrister who runs Scotland Yard's 'C.I.D.'. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: page 83/84 is missing. It appears to have contained part of the 'Peacemakers' novel. Book
188634588Philadelphia PA: 19th November 1886. 1886. Very good. - Nine bars of music penned on a six-sided piece of cream paper with the text written in English below the music. Inscribed "in kind remembrance of Pauline l'Allemand / Philadelphia 19th Nov 86." There is a diagonal crease & a light paper-clip mark near the left side of the paper. Its left edge is darkened. There are 3 light glue marks & surface rubbing to the verso where the paper has been removed from an album. Very good. <p>Pauline l'Allemand gave the first American performance of Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on November 17 1886. This quotation from the opera which was sung in English was thus penned two days after the opening.<p>Born in Syracuse NY Pauline l'Allemand 1856-1944 made her debut as an operatic soprano in Stratton's "The Fairy Grotto" at Wieting Opera House in her home town. She subsequently studied singing in Dresden Stuttgart and Paris. After successfully touring in Europe she returned to America performing "Lakme" in Philadelphia. After her attempt to create her own opera company failed she retired to a farm in Black River Falls Wisconsin with her grown son. They lived in extreme poverty and both were eventually pronounced insane and in 1920 were remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison Wisconsin. L'Allemand was memorialized in the cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Charles Van Schaick and Michael Lesy.<p>Rare. Philadelphia, PA: 19th November, 1886. unknown
1863100670<p>Boston: Transcript Job Printing Office 1863. 1863. Very good. - An original 10-3/8 inch high by 6-5/8 inch wide broadsheet announcement for the Grau Italian Opera Company's performances of "Norma" "Les Noces de Jeannette" "La Traviata" and "Lucrezia Borgia" with a 2-7/8 inch high by 6-5/8 inch wide tipped-on overlay advertising the following week's performances of "I Puritani" and a performance of "Oratorio and Sacred Concert" several featuring the Opera Soprano Madame Lorini in the title roles. The broadsheet advertises the Friday February 27 performances of "Norma" and "Les Noces de Jeannette" and the following Saturday & Sunday's performances of "La Traviata" and "Lucrezia Borgia" with the Following week's Monday performance of "I Puritani" and the Tuesday performance of "La Juive" printed on the recto of the overlay tipped on over the Saturday program with that Sunday's "Oratorio and Sacred Concert" advertised on the verso of the overlay. The Broadside is dated "Sunday Evening March 1 1863 under the announcements of "La Traviata" and "Lucrezia Borgia". There is some minor foxing and darkening and the broadsheet is mounted from the verso onto slightly larger heavy cream paper. Very good.</p><p>The Brau Italian Opera Company began a six week engagement at the Boston Academy of Music on February 9th. This was the last time that what became "The Boston Theatre" was called "The Academy of Music". Among the singers were Madame Lorini Mlle Morensi Signor Maccaferri Signor Susini Mademoiselle Cordier Signor Dubreul etc.</p><p>The November 15 1862 New York Herald review of an earlier performance of "Norma" at the Academy of Music possibly the Brooklyn Academy of Music in that case highly praises the quality of the Soprano's voice "It follows as a matter of course from what we have just stated that Madame Lorini's debut last night was a success. She had sung but a few passages when the audience recognized the beautiful quality of her voice--pure round and fresh--and though not as powerful as one would wish to hear in Norma still with volume sufficient to give a perfect interpretation of the music of the part. Her method is excellent and exhibits evidence of her Italian training."</p> [Boston]: Transcript Job Printing Office, 1863.
012531Dyna Beumer (1856-1933), soprano belge surnomée « le rossignol belge ». L.A.S., [Bruxelles?], 8 décembre 1882, 1p in-8. A M. Alliod, probablement son agent. Elle a eu une proposition de concerts en Hollande en mars et lui demande s'il a des affaires pour elle en France à cette époque. Signature qui semble rare. [249]
21272On letterhead of The Old Cottage Egypt Farnham Common Bucks. 15 October 1965. 2pp 12mo. In good condition lightly aged with lightly-rusted indentation from a paperclip. She thanks him for the 'lovely form of intrusion your letter proved to be - as though you could ever intrude!' She wonders whether if she had been 'a more patient patient' the 'second attack' might not have happened' a heart attack had forced her to retire from the stage 'but I was never one for sitting and doing nothing'. She is 'trying very hard now as I have learnt my lesson'. She has 'so many interests that retirement is beginning to become a pleasure thank heavens'. He hopes to see him and 'dear Given' and ends with affectionate sentiments. On letterhead of The Old Cottage, Egypt, Farnham Common, Bucks. 15 October 1965. unknown
65731923. The sepia photograph 11 x 4 cm is a full-length shot of a radiant Jeritza posing stylishly in Grecian décolleté dress and sandals. It is neatly mounted in the top left-hand corner of a leaf of cream paper 24 x 20 cm removed from an album. The whole attractive and in good condition. In a large bold hand Jeritza has written diagonally across the paper and upwards towards the photograph 'With best wishes signed Maria Jeritza 1923.' Scan on application. 1923. unknown
56 pages. Features: Storyteller Michael Parents; G6 Leaders Meet at Montebello - article with color photos; Ronald Reagan - Commander from Culver City; Clinch River - a Breeder Reactor for Howard Baker; New US policies on immigration; Senators urge William Casey to quit CIA; Daniel Yankelovich predicts new "ethic of commitment"; Prince Charles Weds Lady Diana - feature article with color photos; Precarous Peace Between Israel and P.L.O.; Tough Challenges in Poland; U.S. Favouring China over Taiwan; Pope's Assailant Mehmet Ali Agca gets life; Attack from the right in El Salvador; Hunger strikers lose favour in Northern Ireland; Karl Barth's last letters mix vitriol and compassion; The merits oof multi-billion-dollar mergers; Chrysler turns up a winner under Lee Iococca; Cola wars in Thailand; Iceberg Cool - Theodore Taylor uses ice for air conditioning - on a large scale; Sailing article - "Happiness is a Hobie Cat"; Time Inc. shuts the Washington Star; MADD - growing protest against lenient punishment for drunk drivers; Passing of Carol Fox, Fernand Spaak, Gabriel Hauge and Abram Kardiner; Prehistoric zoo at Archer, Florida okra farm; Steps taken to save the whales; A vote for Egypt's Aswan Dam; Soprano Mirella Freni; Summer Computer Camps replace snakes and frogs; The Pessimistic Vision of the late artist Philip Guston; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1955053357Istanbul: Original Concert Program Pamphlet with Autograph Signature 1955. No Binding. Very Good. Original concert program signed and inscribed by Semiha Berkdoy. 24x12 cm Folded size. Folded. 8 p. fully ills. Signed and inscribed by Berksoy. Semiha Berksoy was a Turkish opera singer and painter. Berksoy started her acting career in the role of Semiha in the first Turkish sound movie Istanbul Sokaklarinda directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1931. She was cast in operettas in Istanbul theaters early in her career. She sang in the first Turkish opera Özsoy in 1934 commissioned by Kemal Atatürk composed by Adnan Saygun. She was honored as the First Turkish Opera Singer and awarded the opportunity to go to Berlin Music Academy for further training. She started her international singing career in 1934 performing in Turkey Germany and Portugal becoming known as a Wagnerian soprano. In 1939 for the 75th birthday of Richard Strauss in Berlin she sang the role of Ariadne in Ariadne Auf Naxos becoming the first Turkish prima donna to perform on stage in Europe. Back in Turkey she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. This initiative leads to the creation of the Experimental Stage of the Ankara State Conservatory 1940. She retired from the Istanbul Opera in 1972. She was decorated with the "Atatürk Opera Award" at the 50th-anniversary ceremonies commemorating the introduction of women's rights to vote and to be elected. She received the title of "State Artist" in Turkey in 1998. Following her retirement she remained active mostly as a theater artist. Four years preceding her death at the age of 90 she appeared in a dramatic scene singing Liebestod in Robert Wilson's opera The Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III at the Lincoln Center in New York City 1999. <br/> <br/> Original Concert Program Pamphlet with Autograph Signature unknown
1992053360Istanbul: Akbank 1992. Soft cover. Fine. Paperback. Oblong large 8vo. 23 x 24 cm. In English and Turkish. 36 p. color ills. Signed and inscribed by the artist as 'Coskun Sensoy'a saygilarla'. Dated 2.10.1992. Semiha Berksoy was a Turkish opera singer and painter. Berksoy started her acting career in the role of Semiha in the first Turkish sound movie Istanbul Sokaklarinda directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1931. She was cast in operettas in Istanbul theaters early in her career. She sang in the first Turkish opera Özsoy in 1934 commissioned by Kemal Atatürk composed by Adnan Saygun. She was honored as the First Turkish Opera Singer and awarded the opportunity to go to Berlin Music Academy for further training. She started her international singing career in 1934 performing in Turkey Germany and Portugal becoming known as a Wagnerian soprano. In 1939 for the 75th birthday of Richard Strauss in Berlin she sang the role of Ariadne in Ariadne Auf Naxos becoming the first Turkish prima donna to perform on stage in Europe. Back in Turkey she worked with Carl Ebert helping him in his efforts to create the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. This initiative leads to the creation of the Experimental Stage of the Ankara State Conservatory 1940. She retired from the Istanbul Opera in 1972. She was decorated with the "Atatürk Opera Award" at the 50th-anniversary ceremonies commemorating the introduction of women's rights to vote and to be elected. She received the title of "State Artist" in Turkey in 1998. Following her retirement she remained active mostly as a theater artist. Four years preceding her death at the age of 90 she appeared in a dramatic scene singing Liebestod in Robert Wilson's opera The Days Before: Death Destruction and Detroit III at the Lincoln Center in New York City 1999. <br/> <br/> Akbank paperback
000280Lot de 8 L.A.S., ca 1902, 30 pages environ, principalement In-8. Certaines lettres au monogramme MH. Ensemble de lettres à son avocat. Trous pour mettre en classeurs sur la majorité des lettres, touchant à peine le texte (cela n'empêche aucunement la lecture). Peu courant.
012549Erminia Frezzolini (1818-1884), soprano italienne. L.A.S. + enveloppe, sd [dimanche], 1p in-8. A l'éditeur musical Marie Escudier (1819-1880). « Cher Monsieur, vous seriez bien aimable de me rappeler l'adresse à laquelle je dois écrire à Lille car j'ai égaré celle de vos lettres qui la contenait. Compliments affectueux et distingués. Erm. Frezzolini ». [250]
012550Povla Frijsh ou Frisch (1881-1960), soprano danoise, professeur de chant. L.A.S., Paris, 16 janvier 1911, 1p in-8. Au compositeur Fernand Halphen (1872-1917). Elle lui retourne un chèque car elle lui a demandé « un emprunt et non pas un don ». Elle lui demande de relire sa lettre et de « redresser le tort qu'[il] lui a fait dans l'esprit d'une personne tierce, amie » à ce sujet. Son nom est bien Frijsh mais elle signe ici Frisch. Peu commun. [250]
2150526 Palace Court London W2. 6 April 1962. 1p 4to. In fair condition lightly aged and worn with the top part of the blank reverse pasted onto a slip of paper cut from an album. Adressed to 'Miss Constance M. Evans Raventhorpe Carmel Road N. Darlington.' She begins by stating that Evans's letter has been forwarded to her by Julian Herbage. She is 'most interested to know that your birthday coincides with mine and that you claim to be the earliest private accompanist I ever had' and thinks from all that Evans says in her letter that 'that is more than likely and your mention of my great friend Rose Budd and Helen Taylor arouses so many happy memories.' She exclaims 'Alas!' on giving the news that Budd died in April 1949 adding that she still visits her husband occasionally. 'Helen Taylor of course became Helen Cowan but I have not seen her for years. I also knew Mr. McKenzie who played the 'cello.' She ends in the hope that life has treated Evans well 'and that all progresses for you as you desire'. Turner was born in Werneth Oldham and her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham teacher of the contralto Clara Butt. 26 Palace Court, London, W2. 6 April 1962. unknown
