Beschreibung:

AUTOGRAPHS - A collection of 170 autograph signatures, dedications and signed musical quotations, including, inter alia , Serge PROKOFIEFF [sic]: two bar musical quotation, signed and dated 1934; Paul HINDEMITH: autograph signature, dated 21 December 1934; Igor STRAVINSKY: two bar musical quotation, signed and dated Bournemouth, 27 March 1936; Maurice RAVEL: autograph dedication; Jean SIBELIUS: autograph signature; Frederick DELIUS: autograph signataure, Alexander GLAZOUNOW [sic]: autograph signature; Béla BARTÓK: autograph signature; Richard STRAUSS: autograph signature; also including Henry Wood Edward German, Vladimir Horowitz, Percy Grainger, Charles-Marie Widor, Arthur Bliss, Constant Lambert, Clara Butt, Malcolm Sargent, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fritz Kreisler, Carl Flesch, Ethel Smyth: seven bar musical quotation, signed, from Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra ; Arthur Rubinstein, William Walton Pablo Casals, Bruno Walter, Léon Goossens, Fyodor Chaliapin, Thomas Beecham, Alfred Cortot, Jascha Heifetz, Arnold Bax: five bar musical quotation, signed, Allegro moderato from Symphony No.2 , Bronislaw Huberman, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Adrian Boult, Hamilton Harty, Eugene Goossens, Gustave Charpentier: five bar musical quotation signed, Frank Bridge: four bar musical quotation signed; Gustav Holst: one bar musical quotation signed; collected by Mr W. Davis, circa 1932-1934, in a small album, leather boards, 100 x 165mm., (spine broken, some of the entries laid down on the leaves of the album).