Beschreibung:

A MAGNIFICENT AUTOGRAPH FAN, the canepin leaf inscribed with the AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES AND DEDICATIONS OF OVER EIGHTY MUSICIANS and also the artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema all presented to Maria Jordan Stojowska, the wooden sticks with gilt floral sprays, the guard sticks carved with daisies, the inscriptions in black and purple ink, the verso decorated with painted scenes, the length of the sticks 350mm., circa 1890-1920, (minor wearing, one stick repaired). A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES, MANY WITH AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS, FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS OF THE PERIOD, including contributions from BRAHMS, VERDI, TCHAIKOWSKY, GRIEG, ELGAR and SCRIABIN, among the composers and TOSCANINI, CARUSO, RUBINSTEIN, VON BÜLOW, JOACHIM, CASALS, SARASATE, PADEREWSKI, KREISLER and HUBERMAN among the performers and conductors The fan itself was originally presented to Maria Jordan Stojowska, the mother of the distinguished composer and pianist Sigismond Stojowski, by the Rumanian Princess Stourdza and bears the original dedicatory inscription Souvenir affectueux à ma meilleure amie de la Princesse C.Stourdza . The inscriptions include: COMPOSERS: Johannes BRAHMS, autograph musical quotation signed, from Am Donaustrande , Liebeslieder , op.52, no.9, three bars; Pyotr Il'yich TCHAIKOWSKY, autograph musical quotation signed, 29 Mars 91 , three bars; Giuseppe VERDI, autograph signature; Alexander SCRIABIN, autograph musical quotation signed, two bars; Edvard GRIEG, autograph signature, Paris, Avril 1894 ; Edward ELGAR, autograph signature; Percy GRAINGER, autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed yours very warmly ; Eugen D'ALBERT, autograph musical quotation signed, two bars, 4 Mars 99 ; Léo DELIBES, autograph musical quotation signed and dedicated, three bars, Ma hommage à Madame votre Mère , (apparently cut from a letter to Sigismond Stojowski and added to the fan by Delibes's wife); Vincent D'INDY, autograph signature (on the Delibes insertion); Emmanuel CHABRIER, autograph musical quotation signed, two bars from La Sulamite , 21 Mars 1893 ; Jules MASSENET, autograph musical quotation signed, two bars Alleluia , 12 Juin 91 ; Camille SAINT-SAËNS, autograph musical quotation signed, six bars from Phryné, O Reine de Cythère ; Pietro MASCAGNI, autograph musical quotation signed, three bars from Cavlleria Rusticana, Voi la sapete, o mamma , London, June, 1893 ; Gabriel PIERNÉ, autograph musical quotation signed, two bars; Benjamin GODARD, autograph musical quotation signed, four bars, Adieu bergère chérie ; Edouard LALO, autograph musical quotation signed, four bars from Symphonie Espagnole ; Oscar STRAUS, autogaph signature; Charles Marie WIDOR, autograph musical quotation signed, four bars, Toujours cet amour ; Max BRUCH, autograph musical quotation signed, three bars, Wien, 4.10.93 ; Ambroise THOMAS, autograph musical quotation signed, four bars, Connais tu le pays ; Charles GOUNOD, autograph musical quotation signed, three bars from the opening of the final trio from Faust , Anges purs . PERFORMERS: Arthur NIKISCH, autograph musical quotation signed, four bars, the theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Leopold GODOWSKY, autograph signature; Leopold STOKOWSKI, autograph signature; Marcellina CZARTORYSKA (Chopin's pupil), autograph signature; Artur TOSCANINI, autograph signature; Enrico CARUSO autograph signature, 12 Gen. 1915 ; Bronislaw HUBERMAN, autograph signature, 25.XII.1923 ; Marcella SEMBRICH, autograph signature; George HENSCHEL, autograph signature; Anton RUBINSTEIN, autograph musical quotation signed, two bars; Teresa CARREÑO autograph signature, Paris le 12 Mai 1900 ; Hans von BÜLOW, autograph signature and inscription célébrité en décadence ; Feruccio BUSONI, autograph signature, Mai 1910 ; Mischa ELMAN, autograph signature; Joseph JOACHIM, autograph signature, Berlin 1891 ; Eugène YSAYE, autograph signature, 1909 ; Alfred GRÜNFELDT, autograph musical quotation signed, five bars, Serenade