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Music; Vol. III Instrumental Music. London: The Trustees [of the
British Museum], 1906. 3 volumes. Large octavo. 615; 961; 543
pp. (19527) $150.
46. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Lavignac,
Albert & Lionel de la Laurencie. Encyclopédie de la Musique et
Dictionnaire du Conservatoire. Deuxieme Partie Technique,
Esthétique, Pédagogie. Paris: Librairie Delagrave, [1929]. Large
octavo. Publisher's original boards. (19666) $75.
The first volume treats orchestration and liturgical music in
different cultures; the second treats the aesthetics of music; the
third volume pedagogy in music schools, concerts and theatres.
These volumes are complete in themselves and constitute volumes
4, 5 and 6 of the encyclopedia.
Important 19 th Century Biographical Reference
47. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Lichtenthal,
Pietro. Dizionario e Bibliografia della Musica... Vol. I [-IV].
Milano: Antonio Fontana, 1836. Four volumes. Octavo. Darkgreen
leather-backed marbled boards, gilt titling and decorative
rules to spines. 1f. (title), [iii]-vi, 1f., 268 pp.; 1f. (title), [5]-300
pp., 8ff. musical examples, 1f. errata; 1f. (title), [v]-xviii, 1f.
secondary title "Letteratura Generale della Musica Parte Prima,"
327 pp.; 1f. (title), 1f. secondary title, [7]-545 pp. including
index, [i] (blank) p., 1f. errata. Binding worn and scuffed; spines
cracked; free front endpaper to Vol. III defective. Edges foxed;
some light foxing throughout, heavier to some leaves; remnants
of bookplate to front pastedowns; former owner's signature to
front free endpaper. (17760) $500.
48. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Meyer, Kathi
and Paul Hirsch, eds. Katalog der Musikbibliothek Paul Hirsch.
Frankfurt am Main: 1936. Original quarter vellum with paper
boards, black leather label gilt to spine. Band III Instrumentalund
Vokalmusik bis etwa 1830. 4ff., 362. [i] (blank), [i]
(statement of limitation) pp. (18911)
An important catalogue.
$85.
49. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Meyer, Kathi
and Paul Hirsch, eds. Katalog der Musikbibliothek Paul Hirsch.
Cambridge: University Press, 1947. Band IV Erstausgaben,
Chorwerke in Partitur, Gesamtausgaben, Nachschlagewerke, etc.
xxiii, [i] (blank), 692, 1f., [i] (list of plates), [i] (blank) pp.
Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped, head of spine with
tape repair, label slightly chipped. One plate loose. (18913) $75.
An important catalogue, particularly valuable for its descriptions
of first and early editions of Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.
50. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Schnapper,
Edith, ed. British Union-Catalogue of Early Music printed before
the year 1801. A Record of the Holdings of Over One Hundred
Libraries throughout the British Isles. London: Butterworths,
1957. 4to. 2 volumes. Full cloth. (673.1) $285.
51. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Squire, W.
Barclay. Catalogue of Printed Music Published Between 1487
and 1800 Now in the British Museum. [London]: The Trustees
[of the British Museum], 1912. Large octavo. Original publisher's
boards. Vol. I: 775 pp.; Vol. II: 720 pp. Slightly browned and
foxed; title leaf detached. (19542) $120.
52. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCE]. Zeileis,
Friedrich Georg. Katalog einer Musik-Sammlung. Berlin:
Gallspach, 1992. 4to. Quarter leather. As new. (714.1) $85.
Catalogue of the private music collection of Dr. Friedrich Georg
Zeileis: musical autographs, printed music, and manuscripts,
including items by Beethoven, Brahms, Gluck, Handel, Paganini,
Schubert, and Wagner, among many others. Illustrated.
53. BISHOP, Henry 1786-1855. Autograph letter signed
"Henry R. Bishop," dated [London] Bloomsbury, February 2,
[18]27. 2 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. To the publisher D'Almaine.
Relative to the publication of an Ode, with piano-forte
accompaniment, and mentioning Cherubini. Slightly worn,
creased and stained; split at central fold. (19061) $165.
Bishop "enjoyed a commanding reputation as the guardian of the
best traditions of English song, and for a time he kept English
opera alive almost single-handed." Grove online. He wrote two
odes, one for the Anniversary of the Accession of George IV in
1821 and the other on the Installation of the Earl of Derby in
Oxford in 1853; the present letter is presumably referring to the
first ode. The addressee is most probably Thomas D'Almaine (d.
1766), of the English music publishing firm originally founded by
George Goulding "who was probably in business before 1784."
Kidson: British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers, p. 53.
54. BISHOP. Autograph signature dated September 6,
1839. 77 x 116 mm. Slightly browned; laid down to mounting
paper. (20317) $60.
Bishop composed or arranged approximately 120 dramatic works
including operas and ballets. He is best-known for the his song
Home, Sweet Home.
55. BISHOP. Mora's Love or The Enchanted Harp, a
favorite Pastoral Romance as Performed at the King's Theatre
Haymarket, Composed by Mr. D'Egville. [Piano score]. London:
Printed for the Author, by L. Lavenu, [ca. 1809]. Folio. Recent
marbled boards. 34 pp. With vignette of a harp to title page. Some
staining and minor foxing. A very good, wide-margined copy
overall. (18868) $275.
Probable First Edition. Smith: The Italian Opera and
Contemporary Ballet in London 1785-1802 no. 389. First
performed at the King's Theatre on June 15th 1809.
56. BISPHAM, David 1857-1921. Autograph letter signed
to an unidentified male correspondent. 1-1/2 pages of a bifolium.
Octavo. Dated [New York], February 3, 1908. Bispham regrets
that he could not attend the reception for Monroe Smith and looks
forward to singing on Saturday. Slightly worn and foxed; creased
at folds. (20613) $75.
An American baritone, Bispham excelled in Wagnerian roles.
Bittner at the Piano
57. BITTNER, Julius J. 1874-1939 . Attractive signed
postcard photograph of the noted Viennese composer in a music
studio, seated at an Ehrbar piano. With an autograph note signed
to verso dated Vienna, September 24, 1936, addressed to the
Colombian musicologist Otto de Greiff. With Bittner's return
address stamp in purple ink to upper left corner, "Julius Bittner,
Wien IX, Dietrichsteingasse 10." Very slightly worn. In very
good condition overall. (20612) $225.