Album. Autograph album of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, c.1935-1974

Album

Autograph album of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, containing musical quotations, inscriptions, photographs and signatures

including by Stravinsky (autograph inscription: "Vielen herzlichen Dank Igor Stravinsky...Sept/58"), Richard Strauss (signature), Sibelius, Arrau, Ansermet, Böhm, Backhaus, Busch, Boult, Britten, Beecham, Brendel, Barenboim, Cortot, Celibidache, Curzons, Dohnányi, Dorati, Fischer, Furtwängler, Fournier, Malcom Frager, Gieseking, Arthur Grumiaux, Hindemith, Heather Harper, Krenek, Walter Klien, Kienzl, Klemperer, Leinsdorf, Menuhin, Messiaen, Muti, Martin, Nielson, Ormandy, Orff, Pfitzner, Pollini, Perlmann, Leonard Rose, Reznicek, Rostropovich, Sargent, Solti, Walter

over 90 leaves, plus blanks, 4to (c.22 x 16.5cm), Hamburg and elsewhere, original leather binding by Georg Hulbe, Hamburg/Berlin, embossed lettering to upper cover ("Autographen-Register"), c.1935-1974, split at upper hinge, some loss of leather to spine

A veritable who's who of twentieth-century composers and musicians connected by their involvement with the Hamburg Philharmonic Society.