Composers and musicians. 6 autograph albums, including musical quotations by Ravel, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, 1907-1955

Composers and musicians

The autograph albums of Max Bettelheim, including autograph musical quotations, signed photographs or signatures by over 200 composers, singers and conductors, including by:

Igor Stravinsky (autograph musical quotations signed, dated 1948, from The Fire Bird and Petrushka and one signature: "Igor Stravinsky Paris le 20. I. 36"), Alban Berg (autograph musical quotation signed, 1929), Arnold Schoenberg (3-bar autograph musical quotation signed: "To M. G. Bettelheim cordially ArnoldSchoenberg...1948"), Sergei Rachmaninov (2 signatures, one dated 1929), Bela Bartok (signature), Maurice Ravel (2-bar autograph musical quotation signed from Ma mère l'Oye), Richard Strauss (two signed photographs, two signatures and two autograph musical quotations signed, from Salome and Don Juan), dated Vienna, 29 April 1929), Serge Prokofiev (2-bar autograph musical quotation signed from the second violin concerto Op.63), Alexander Tcherepnin (2 autograph musical quotations signed), Zoltan Kodaly, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud (two autograph musical quotations signed, one from Le Pauvre Matelot), Alexander Gretchaninov, Paul Hindemith (2), Erich Korngold (signed photograph with autograph musical quotation), Ernst Krenek (signed photograph), Gabriel Pierné, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Karl Weigl (autograph musical quotation from the Fantastic Intermezzo), Siegfried Wagner, Hans Pfitzner, Franz Drdla, Pietro Mascagni (2), Ottorino Respighi, Franz Salmhofer, Wilhelm Kienzl (2), Kurt Weill, Arturo Toscanini (5), Jascha Heifetz, Alfred Cortot, Arthur Rubinstein, Wilhelm Backhaus, Artur Schnabel, Bruno Walter, Julius Isserlis, Emil von Sauer, Paul Wittgenstein (2), Vladimir Horowitz, Leopold Godowsky, Wilhelm Furtwängler (two signed photographs and and two signatures), Hermann Abendroth (2), Hans Knappertsbusch, Willem Mengelberg, Klemens Kraus, Hermann Scherchen (2), Erich Kleiber (2 signed photographs), Fritz Busch, Josef Krips (2), Otto Klemperer, Karl Böhm (2), Felix Weingartner (2), Leopold Stokowski, Alexander Sved (3), Leo Blech (2), Eugene Ormandy (2), Egon Wellesz, Jan Kiepura (6), Rudolf Serkin (2), Walter Gieseking, Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky (3), Nathan Milstein (2), Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin, Bronislaw Hubermann (2 signed photographs and one signature), Jacques Thibaud, Jan Kubelik, Joseph Szigeti, Arnold Rosé (2 signed photographs and one signature), Arnold Busch (one signed photograph showing Busch and the young Menuhin, and one signature), Franz Lehar, Robert Stolz, Max von Schillings, Leo Slezak, F. Chaliapin, Heinrich Schlusnus (2), Paul Robson (2), Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli (4), Alessandro Bonci, Tito Schipa (2), Max Lorenz, Lauritz Melchioer (5), Helga Roswaenge (3), Richard Tauber (2), Wilhelm Rode (3), Paul Schoeffler, Gerhard Hüsch, Armando Borgioli (3), Mariano Stabile (3), Titta Ruffo, Marcel Journet (2), Ezio Pinze, Tancredi Pasero, Ivar Andresen, Emanuel List, Fernando Autori, Alexander Kionis (2), Lothar Riedinger, Alfred Piccaver (3), Georg Maikl, Karl Ziegler (2), Fritz Krauss, Hans Fidesser, Gunar Graarud, Aroldo Lindi (2), Julius Patzak (2), Josef Kalenberg, Victor Madin (2), Robert Burg, Hans Duhan (3), Riccardo Stracciari, Theodor Scheidl (2), G. Baklanoff, Cesare Formichi, Willi Domgraf-Fassbinder, Alfred Jerger (3), Lawrence Tibbert, Karl Norbert (2), Richard Mayr (3), Karl Ettl, Nicola Zec, Otto Fassl, Virgilio Lazari (2), Franz Mittler, Leo Sirota, Ossip Gabilowitsch, Erich Meller, Moritz Rosenthal, Jan Cherniawsky (2), Ignaz Friedmann, Dusolina Giannini (3), Christel Goltz, Adele Kern, Licia Albanese, Marian Anderson, Wilhelm Backhaus (2), and many others

6 volumes, various sizes, numbered 1-2, 4-7 on the upper covers, the photographs and cards bearing the autograph musical quotations and signatures loosely inserted in the album, mostly coloured card album wrappers with hand-painted floral designs, Vienna, Paris, New York and elsewhere, 1907-1955, where indicated, upper cover of volume 5 detached

An exceptional collection of pre-war and post-war autograph musical quotations and signatures made by the Viennese lawyer Max Bettelheim (1912-1971).