Album with c.160 entries by Stravinsky, Strauss, Bartók, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and a quotation by Lehár, 1927-1937

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Autograph album containing around 160 signatures by Stravinsky, Strauss, Bartók, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Lehár, with musical quotations and drawings, mainly Budapest, 1932-1937

Lehár, Franz. Autograph musical quotation from the operetta Der Zarewitsch, dated 3 days after the premiere, four bars notated on two staves, from the Intermezzo to Act III [quoting Sonja's Lied 'Einer wird kommen'], signed and inscribed ("Cárevics...LehárFerenc Berlin 1927 II/24."), laid down; together with inscriptions and signatures by Bartók, Kodály, Dohnányi, Lehár, Strauss, Toscanini, Horowitz, Klemperer, Heifetz, Stravinsky, Walter, Lotte Lehmann, Szigeti, Kleiber, Gigli, Casals, Chaliapin, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Zweig, Respighi, de Sabata, Cortot, Furtwängler, Lhevinne, Malko, Arrau, Thibaut, Huberman, Emil von Sauer, Fischer, Milstein, Caniglia, Lujza Blaha and others, 5 drawings (2 with coloured washes) and musical quotations, a few on cards laid down 

116 pages, 4to (c.19 x 14.5cm), decorated calf wrappers, green and dark red onlays to cover, slipcase, manuscript list in Hungarian, 1913-1957: mainly Budapest, 1932-1937

This is an attractive album featuring an unusually impressive array of leading composers, conductors, musicians and singers from the 1930s