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349. RAWSTHORNE, Alan 1905-1971. Autograph letter
signed to the Colombian musicologist Otto de Greiff. 1 p. Quarto.
Dated August 22, 1953. On personal letterhead with Rawsthorne's
Saffron Walden address to head. The composer thanks de Greiff
for his kind letter and writes I am so glad you like the second
piano concerto. Here are a few notes from the last movement.
Rawsthorne then pens a two-bar autograph musical quotation
from the work. Creased at folds; very slightly browned; minor
foxing. (20677) $150.
Inscribed by the Composer
350. REGER, Max 1873-1918. Acht Lieder für eine
Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte... [Wiegenlied Mittel.
Op. 43, No. 5]. München: Jos. Aibl [PN 2954e], [ca. 1900]. Folio.
Cloth-backed black boards with paper label titled in manuscript to
upper with original publisher's wrappers printed in red and blue
bound in. [1] (decorative title), [2] (blank), 3-5 music, [i] (blank)
pp. With autograph inscription signed to Frau Eily
Kleinschmidt signed by the composer and dated Frankfurt a/M
March 25 [19??] to upper wrapper and with her handstamp to
front free endpaper. Bound with songs by Hugo Krun, Oscar
Meyer, Max Frank, J. Dessauer, Carl Eckert, Konradin Kreutzer,
W. Mühldorfer, Carl Zeller, A.E. Grell, Aug. Schäffer, Moritz
Penschel, Leh·r, Wilhelm Maase, August Bungert, etc. Binding
slightly worn, rubbed and bumped; inscription very slightly
trimmed just touching several letters. (20907) $400.
351. REINER, Fritz 1888-1963. Autograph letter signed.
Dated June 3, 1947. Written in green ink on a postal card. The
distinguished Hungarian-born American conductor writes to the
New York music publisher H. Baron requesting the score of
Messiaen's L'Ascension for inspection. Slightly creased and
soiled. (20573) $125.
Reményi Discusses His Concert Tours
352. REMÉNYI, Eduard 1828-1898. 2 autograph letters
signed, one dated Chicago, May 8, 1881, addressed to a Mr.
Saalfield, on letterhead of The Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago, in
which Reményi discusses his concert tours in Colorado,
Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Manitoba and Minnesota: I have
an immmmense programmmme I tellllllll you - and I bet your life
I will astonish the natives; the other the last two pages of a 4page
letter, undated but ca. 1880, possibly to the same addressee,
in which Reményi details a portion of his performing program,
discusses the possible addition of his Liberty Hymn for a
performance in New York and states that he will send a copy of
the work published by Oliver Ditson although it is not available
from the publisher. Creased at folds; some creasing and paper
reinforcement to edges. (20692) $400.
Fine Lithographic Portrait
353. RICCI, Luigi 1805-1859. Original half-length
attractive lithographic portrait of this noted Italian operatic
composer in formal dress by V[incenzo] Roscioni. 1840. With a
printed inscription: "Alla Egregia Giovane Signora Maria Luigia
Finetti Virtuosa di Canto e Socia onoraria della Congregazione di
S. Cecilia e dell' Accademia Filarca. Romana... Vincenzo
Roscioni..." 373 x 279 mm. Ca. 1840. Lithograph ca. 315 x 247
mm. laid down to larger sheet ca. 373 x 279 mm. Slightly
browned and foxed; some creasing and short tears to edges. In
very good condition overall. (15761) $250.
"Luigi Ricci's is one of the more individual voices in Italian opera
of the period." Grove online
354. RIETI, Vittorio 1898-1994. Autograph signature on a
card ca.88 x 140 mm. (18672) $65.
Rietz and Bargiel
355. RIETZ, Julius 1812-1877. Autograph musical
quotation signed and dated Leipzig, October 30, 1848. 10
measures of a vocal work in score for 4-part men's voices on a
text by Friedrich von Schiller. Notated in ink on an album leaf ca.
256 x 203 mm. Together with an autograph inscription by
Woldemar Bargiel (1828-1897) signed and dated Berlin,
February 15, 1887 to verso. Slightly browned. (20424) $450.
Rietz, a German cellist, composer, conductor and editor, went to
Düsseldorf in 1834 as an assistant to Mendelssohn at the Opera,
going on to become that city's musical director when
Mendelssohn left… [He] was also active as an editor, working on
Bach's B minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion for the Bach-
Gesellschaft and also on Mozart operas later incorporated into
the Mozart Gesamtausgabe. Bargiel, a German composer and
conductor, was a pupil of Moscheles, David, Joachim,
Hauptmann, Richter, Rietz and Gade; he was later appointed
teacher of composition at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik by
Joachim. Grove online
356. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay 1844-1908. [Op.
30]. Concerto pour Piano… Réduction pour 2 Pianos par l'Auteur.
Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff [PN 28], [ca. 1910]. Folio. Publisher's
wrappers. [1] (title), 2-35 music, [i] (publisher's catalogue) pp.
With printed dedication to Franz Liszt to fine chromolithographic
decorative title by G. Roder. Wrappers worn and separated at
spine; blue crayon markings to upper; slightly worn and creased
throughout. Some pencilled fingering to page 3. (17136) $60.
Ristori Writes About Her Library
357. RISTORI, Adelaide 1822-1906. Lengthy autograph
letter signed. 4 pp. Octavo. Dated Venice, September 8, 1872. On
personal letterhead with embossed monogram at head. An
interesting letter in which Ristori expresses her enthusiasm for a
new opera and its staging, stating that she will reimburse her
correspondent for his expenses. She does not understand how her
copy of the Girandi opera score is incomplete: Don't accuse me of
being remiss for the disorder of my little library. It's all my
daughter's fault. Ristori asks her correspondent to try to buy
what is missing from some old bookseller.... let me also know if it
is possible to find another copy of the Maria Stuarda, similar to
that beautiful one you bought for me, and to send her a copy of
Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo. Finally, she talks of her travel
plans and praises Venice: Tuesday we will leave this wonderful
city. Oh, what a sky! What poetry! What wonderful treasures of
brilliance and mental power. Every day I am more proud to call
myself Italian. (20693) $450.
358. ROLLA, Alessandro 1757-1841. [Op. 2]. Tre Gran
Quartetti concertanti Per due Violini Viola e Violoncello
composti e dedicati a sua Eccellenza il Sigr. Conte Giuseppe
Archinto. [Parts]. Milano: Gio. Ricordi [PN] 1594, [1825]. Folio.