Search Results: Music/Dance from Sophie Dupre

sending a "thousand thanks for so quickly sending me my lorgnon of which I was in great need. Let me know as early as possible how large your party will be on the 9th that I may reserve you a box. It will be a performance which I think you will enjoy. I do not, at present, for I have no end of trouble, worry and anxiety about it. I shall be thankful when it is all over. With my best regards to all your family believe me to be, dear Mrs Blunt, yours most sincerely...", 1 side 8vo, 16 Wellington Road, St John's Wood, Wednesday evening, no date

consisting of a bar of music on an album leaf, 5" x 4", no place,

headed "Gavotte, from Suite in G, pub. by Novello", with a stave of music on 1 side card, no place, 31st May

thanking him "for so kindly adding your book on the priory to my modest collection; I am delighted to have it. I don't know the original of the picture of the gateway - I have several which I should like to show you sometime..." with a postscript that he has "just found the enclosed... notes on production, you see I have used the old words...", 3 sides 4to., Severn House, 42 Netherhall Gardens, 22nd March In June 1911, as part of the celebrations surrounding the coronation of King George V, Elgar was appointed to the Order of Merit, an honour limited to twenty-four holders at any time. The following year, the Elgars moved back to London, to a large house in Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, designed by Norman Shaw. There Elgar composed his last two large-scale works of the pre-war era, the choral ode, The Music Makers and the symphonic study Falstaff. Both were received politely but without enthusiasm. When World War I broke out, Elgar was horrified at the prospect of the… Read More

saying he has "much pleasure in doing as you desire...", 1 side 8vo., 7 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square, 10th March

sending their "warmest greetings from a most attractive spring season, where once again we have had the greatest success imaginable, Beethoven's Ninth and a splendid evening of Viennese music are now behind us but we've still got the Missa Solemnis and the Mozart Requiem...", 1 side postcard with autograph address and picture of Buenos Aires on the verso, postmarked Argentina, 21st September Frau Geissmar's husband Leopoldus was a lawyer in Mannheim, where he ran a well-known series of concerts. He owned a Stradivarius, which his daughter Berthe, 1892-1949, brought out under her arm when she and her mother escaped from the Nazis in the 1930s. See Berthe's 'The Baton and the Jackboot, Recollections of Musical Life', London, 1947 (published in New York as 'Two Worlds of Music'). Kleiber is widely considered to be one of the legendary conductors of the 20th century. He was director of the Berlin State Opera for 1903 to 1915 when he was forced by the Nazis to… Read More

saying that they had "arrived in Paris a week ago. We had a calm and very pleasant crossing, but a very long one... we took a roundabout course and called at the Port of Vego, in North West Spain... I should like to meet you here, and shall therefore be glad if you will let me know when you expect to be in Paris. They couldn't tell me at Koussevitsky's publishing-house, and I was only able to get your address. On board the boat, I made a clean copy of the first movement of the quartet. The others are getting on gradually, but in two weeks time, I shall have to interrupt the work, in order to go to Poland and Prague. I walk a good deal in the Bois de Boulogne and St. Cloud, and yesterday, I spent several hours at St. Germain. The sea-air was undoubtedly beneficial to me, here, I don't feel so well again...", 2 sides 8vo., 15 Boulevard Suchet, Paris 16, 8th March The recipient is Nikolai Karlovich MEDTNER (1880-1951, Russian Composer and Virtuoso Pianist). After a period of… Read More

saying that "We hope to see you for the Short Soloist's rehearsal for Schumann's Mignon Requiem - if you arrange it - on Tuesday next at 12 at my house...", 1 side 8vo., 1 Noreton Gardens, South Kensington, 5th June On 5th February 1852, Goldschmidt married the world-famous soprano Jenny LIND (1820-1887, the Swedish Nightingale) in Boston, Massachusetts. To please his wife, he converted to become Episcopalian. They had three children. From 1858, they lived in London where Otto became a professor in 1863 and later vocal director at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1863, Goldschmidt and William Sterndale Bennett compiled the 150. In 1876, he founded the Bach Choir, which he led until 1886. He several times conducted the famous Lower Rhine festivals at Düsseldorf.

3½" x 2½", printed with his name and "Membre de l'Institut" and the address 66 Bould de Rochechouart, no date

consisting of several bars of music on a piece of paper from an album with a coloured picture of pansies on it, 5½" x 5½", London, 29th November

with four bars of music and the word "Allegro", on an album leaf, 1 side oblong 8vo., 15th November

saying that "the song 'Wichita' you speak of is in an album on Capital entitled - 'Songs of the Western Screen'. The single record has long since been deleted from the Capital Catalogue. I am unable to tell you if this particular album was released in England but at least you now know about the only place you can find the song is in this particular album...", 2 sides 4to., with original envelope with autograph name and address on the verso, Kensington Palace Hotel headed paper, 5th May

saying that "Olympus has thundered mildly. Would you be so kind as to address the enclosed envelope? J.R. wrote to me saying he would be glad to see Denis Wood...", with a not in Wood's hand that J. R. - Sir John REITH (1889-1971, Director General of the BBC), 1 side A4, 52 Sandringham Court, Maida Vale, 5th April Shaw worked with his brother Martin Shaw, also a composer, while his son Sebastian was a Shakespearean actor who is remembered for the Star Wars role of Anakin Skywalker.

saying that he has found a place for her, talking about something being returned and saying that he will have to "return this time (Tuesday) without having a chance to see you. Many heartfelt greetings from both of us...", 1 side 8vo., no place, 16th November In 1902, at the Mainz Festival, Weingartner conducted all nine Beethoven symphonies. From 1907 to 1910 he was the Director of the Vienna Hofoper, succeeding Gustav Mahler, he retained the conductorship of the Vienna Philharmonic until 1927. From 1912 he was again Kapellmeister in Hamburg, but resigned in 1914 and went to Darmstadt as general music director while also often conducting in the U.S. for the Boston Opera Company between 1912-1914. In 1919-20, he was chief conductor of the Vienna Volksoper. Translation Dear Lady, I have found a place/space for you. More perhaps from (Entmann/Cutmann?), if something is being returned. Will have to return this time (Tuesday) without having had the chance to see you. Many heartfelt… Read More

acknowledging her "courteous and acceptable present your volume on the antiquities and interesting objects of this venerable city so dear to me from many agreeable associations and I beg your acceptance of my best thanks for so instructive a guide to all the important monuments of this place...", 2 sides 8vo., Tombland, Norwich, 6th February repaired at the head of the first place where a monogram had been removed without loss of text Johanna Maria Lind was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840. She became famous after her performance in Der Freischütz in Sweden in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García… Read More

saying how she had written such a lovely note a long time ago, and that she has often wanted to write but her days are are so busy, "And now having a short holiday I send you my very warmest wishes", p.m., Elgin Morayshire, 17th July

with several bars of music and the word 'Allegro', on a sheet of paper decorated with a dried flower, 5¼" x 4", Dresden, 14th May

saying that "it was too bad you could not be one of us on the 22nd ult. We numbered almost 200 and had such a delightful afternoon. We were obliged to spend a night and day there and then the dear little fellow was himself again and we came on without any further trouble...", 3 sides 8vo., Rivoli, Piemont, Italy, 14th July She was born in Ohio but spent much her life in England. She tudied with Madame de la Grange and San Giovanni and made her her debut in Italy as Leonora in Il Trovatore. She was married to Conte di Righini, her son was the bass Camillo Righini.

saying that she will "realise, I am happily sunning myself in Fluren - may I come even 2 or 3 days earlier? I do feel that nothing is so important...", 1 side postcard with autograph address and picture of Vienna on the verso, postmarked Vienna, 17th May, year illegible Frau Geissmar's husband Leopoldus was a lawyer in Mannheim, where he ran a well-known series of concerts. He owned a Stradivarius, which his daughter Berthe, 1892-1949, brought out under her arm when she and her mother escaped from the Nazis in the 1930s. See Berthe's 'The Baton and the Jackboot, Recollections of Musical Life', London, 1947 (published in New York as 'Two Worlds of Music'). Kleiber is widely considered to be one of the legendary conductors of the 20th century. He was director of the Berlin State Opera for 1903 to 1915 when he was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany.