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

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

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

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

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

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 that she has "through Mrs Schwabe, received your kind invitation for the 18th inst and in thanking you for having thus kindly thought of me and my husband, I beg to say that we shall be happy to accept your kind invitation..." 2 sides 8vo., Oak Lea, Wimbledon Park, 10th February no year, postmarked 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 saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely… Read More

showing a drawing of Piccadilly and the Park Lane Hotel, "Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year, Josephine Baker, 1963...", 5½" x 3½", no place,

thanking him for his "most kind letter, my wife's illness, as you may well imagine, is a great source of worry & anxiety but I sincerely hope that the thorough rest & treatment, which she is at present undergoing may effect a permanent cure...", 2 facing sides 8vo., Compton Lodge, Harley Road, South Hampstead, 16th February Clara Butt married Rumford in 1900. In later life she was dogged by tragedies. Her elder son died of meningitis while still at school, and the younger one committed suicide. During the 1920s, she became seriously ill with cancer of the spine. She made many of her later records seated in a wheelchair.

saying he "will write with the greatest pleasure. Will you send me a note telling me if the Strolling players were, (in 1883) 'led' by Pollitzer - & who conducted them?...", 1 side 8vo., Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London crossed out and "Wed. home tomorrow" put in its place, no date Almost certainly addressed to a member of the Irving family of Actors. 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 carnage, but his patriotic feelings were… Read More

from his Song "Thou art - so like a flower..." with several bars of music and the words "Expressivo" and "Op 10 No. 2" written above them, 1 side 8vo., no place, no date

with several bars of music headed "Moderato" and the words "We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be...", 5" x 3", no place, 29th July At Hereford, Sinclair was conductor of eight Three Choirs Festivals between 1891 and 1912, working with leading British musicians of the day, including Edward Elgar, who incorporated into his Enigma Variations a portrait of Sinclair and his bulldog.

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.

saying that "it is high time you heard from me and - in addition this time - that you send my regards on to your daughter... At present I am getting a little rest here in rather primitive solitude, but it was extremely necessary! At the end of July I go on to Soppot where they've got me to do three performances of the 'Walkyrie' (for the Wadlfestspiele (Forest Festival). Then I shall get some time off...", 1 side postcard with autograph address and picture of "Oliva, Luftkurort u Ostseebad" which he has written around on the verso, postmarked Danzig, June 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… Read More

saying she supposes "you have gone, could. you come to me tomorrow at 12...", 1 side 8vo., 5 Garrick Street London headed paper, no date but Melba made her Covent Garden début in May 1888, in the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor. She received a friendly but not excited reception. In the early 1890s, Melba embarked on an affair with Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans. They were seen frequently together in London, which excited some gossip, but far more suspicion arose when Melba travelled across Europe to St Petersburg to sing for Tsar Nicholas II: the Duke followed closely behind her, and they were spotted together in Paris, Brussels, Vienna and St Petersburg.

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.