



AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE PAGE
Collection of Original Signatures of Musicians.
1935-1938; 1956-1957. 13" h x 10" w. Overall very good. Left and right margins worn with tape repairs on verso (affecting t of Piastro signature, but nothing else).Thirty-four signatures of prominent musicians from the early and mid twentieth century, possibly collected by a member of the New York Philharmonic. Most are dated between 1935 and 1938, but a handful are from the 1950s. The signatures are all on the inside front wrapper of a Beethoven sonata (music not present), except for three on the verso of the detached back wrapper (marked below with an asterisk). Those we can identify include:
SIG-16291$250Composers: Aaron Copland, Ernest Schelling, Daniel Gregory Mason, Edgar Stillman Kelley, John Barnett, Henry Hadley, Charles Haubiel, Howard Hanson;
Conductors: Arthur Fiedler, Hugo Fiorato, Nikolai Sokoloff, Joseph Rosenstock;
Pianists: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Zygmunt Stojowski, Leonid Hambro; Lydia Hoffmann-Behrendt*;
Violinists: John Corigliano, Mishel Piastro, Margaret Pardee, Kenji Koboyashi, Oscar Shumsky; Louis Graeler;
Singers: Max Panteleiff.
