FACSIMILE OF AN ALBUM OF 255 LETTERS BY MANY OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL ARTISTS OF THE DAY HONORING THEODORE E. STEINWAY ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE HOUSE OF STEINWAY.

1953 [2000]., 1953 [2000].. - A collection of facsimile letters, consisting of 256 sheets of watermarked paper reproducing the title page and 255 letters addressed to Theodore E. Steinway which formed an album created in 1953 honoring the centenary of the House of Steinway. The individual leaves are here laid loose in the sleeves of a binder. The original album from which this facsimile was produced was sold at auction circa the year 2000 and 3 sets of facsimiles of the letters were created by the new owner. That album was subsequently broken up and the pages sold separately. <p>The album of original letters from which this facsimile was produced was sold at auction circa the year 2000 and 3 facsimiles of the letters were created by the new owner. The album was subsequently broken up and the pages sold separately. This is one of two sets of the facsimiles that are being offered for sale.<p>Among the musicians included in the album are: Walter Piston, Fritz Reiner, Pablo Casals, Percy Grainger, Sammy Kaye, Cab Calloway, Samuel Barber (with a musical quotation), Lauritz Melchior, Morton Gould, Richard Rodgers, Wilhelm Kempff (with a musical quotation), Gerald Moore, Henry Cowell, Ernest Bloch, Count Basie, Gary Graffman, Ernest Krenek, Leon Fleisher, Egon Petri, Yehudi Menuhin, Eugene List, William Kapell, Isaac Stern, Gaby, Jean and Robert Casadesus (on one sheet with a musical quotation), Artur Rodzinski, Eileen Joyce, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Vladimir Horowitz, Hector Villa-Lobos, Rudolf Serkin, George Szell, Jascha Heifetz, Josef Hofmann, Shura Cherkassky, Myra Hess, Arthur Rubenstein, Alexander Tcherepnin ( with 6 musical quotations), Gina Bachauer, Fritz Kreisler, Bruno Walter, Jean Sibelius, Cole Porter, Gian Carlo Menotti, Gregor Piatigorsky, Xavier Cugat (with his self-portrait), Byron Janis, Arturo Toscanini, Wanda Landowska, Mischa Elman, Howard Hanson (with a musical quotation), and Solomon.