Eminent Russian composer (1844–1908) best known for such brilliantly orchestrated works as Scheherezade and for operatic staples like Sadko, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and The Golden Cockerel. Signed musical score: Boyarynia Vera Sheloga, Op. 54. St. Petersburg: Vasily Kessel & Co., 1898. Softcover, 9.25 x 12.25, 45 pages. The composer has signed on the title page in Russian (translated): “To my dear friend Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov from his loving N. R.-Korsakov, St. Petersburg 98.” Liadov himself (1855–1914) was a composer of some note who studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and became best known for his piano pieces and orchestral tone poems. Housed in a custom cloth-covered clamshell box. The book is generally in very good condition, with chipped and detached covers; apart from some light soiling and a few small chips, the contents (including signed page) are fine. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
