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Composers

Composers

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Composers

Collection of approximately 78 signatures of musicians and composers, many adding an AMQS, the vast majority in ink with a few in pencil, primarily on individual off-white 4.5 x 2.5 pages, a few lined. Signers include: Victor Borge, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Cab Calloway, Walter Damrosch, Hoagy Carmichael, Rudolph Ganz, Percy Grainger, Vladimir Horowitz, Liberace, and Yehudi Menuhin. In overall fine condition, with light edge toning.

A more comprehensive list of signers (the above included): Prince Joachim Albrecht, Enrique Fernandez Arbos, Jan August, Tex Beneke, Sandro Benelli, Ben Bernie, Victor Borge, Earl Burnett, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Cab Calloway, Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Crawford, Jesse Crawford, Giuseppe Creatore, Bernie Cummings, Walter Damrosch, Metod Dolezil, Jimmy Dorsey, Morton Downey, Eddie Dunstedter, Ted Fio-Rito, Ossip Gabrilovitsch, Rudolph Ganz, Edwin Franko Goldman, Chandler Goldwaite, Percy Grainger, Ferde Grofe, Joseph Hofmann, Vladimir Horowitz, Lloyd Huntley, Harry James, Stu Johnson, Spike Jones, Jimmie Joy (2), Wayne King (2), Leonard Leigh, Mischa Levitski, Ted Lewis (2), Josef Lhevinne, Liberace, Bert Lown, Yehudi Menuhin, Mitch Miller, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hillard, Red Nichols, Nikolas Orloff, Ben Pollack (2), John Powell, Harry Reser, Ted Rhodes, Rubinoff, Harold Samuel (2), Toscha Seidel, Ernest H. Shelling, Nathaniel Shilkret, Cesare Sodero, Albert Spalding, Phil Spitalny, Oscar Straus, Deems Taylor, Jacques Thibauld, Orin Tucker, Henri Verbruggen, Fred Waring (2), Ted Weems (2), Rudy Weidoeft, Lawrence Welk, Paul Whiteman, Efrem Zimbalist. RR Auction COA.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph
  • Dates: #414 - Ended September 18, 2013