Dukelsky, Vladimir ("Vernon Duke").

signed in block letters on the autograph title ("à Mr. Serge Prokofieff VLADIMIR DUKELSKY TROIS CAPRICES...New-York 1936"), bearing the composer's autograph monogram ("VD") in three places, including to title, notated in black ink on up to four two-stave systems per page, containing some erasures and corrections, 12 pages, plus blanks, folio (c.33.5 x 26cm), 12-stave paper ("Chappell No. 2"), dated on the front cover New York, 1936, and at the end January 1937, a few small tears to outer leaves, covers becoming detached, corners chipped with some loss, browning, a few tiny stains 

Richard Buckle, Diaghilev (London, 1979), p.452

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An attractive manuscript by the Russian-born American composer Vladimir Dukelsky (1903-1969) who, at Gershwin's suggestion, adopted the pseudonym Vernon Duke for his popular songs and lighter pieces, retaining, as here, his Russian name for his other compositions. In 1925 his ballet Zéphr et Flore was performed by the Ballets Russes at Monte Carlo and Paris - a work containing in the view of Prokoviev, the dedicatee of the Trois Caprices, "too much Glazunov".