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We accept payment by: - Credit card (VISA, Mastercard, American Express) - PayPal to [email protected] - Checks in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank - International money order - Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), inclusive of all bank charges (details at foot of invoice) - Automated Clearing House (ACH), inclusive of all bank charges (details at foot of invoice) All items remain the property of J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC until paid for in full. v Please visit our website at www.lubranomusic.com Fine Items & Collections Purchased v Members Antiquarians Booksellers’ Association of America International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Professional Autograph Dealers’ Association Music Library Association American Musicological Society Society of Dance History Scholars &c. v Diana La Femina, Assistant © J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC November 2018 Cover illustration: Ms. Horne in L’Italiana in Algeri 2 Marilyn Horne is a distinguished American mezzo- soprano. "[She] had a voice of extraordinary range, rich and tangy in timbre, with a stentorian chest register and an exciting top. Her recordings including several Rossini roles, Laura in La Gioconda, Juno in Semele, Gluck’s Orpheus, Anita in Massenet’s La Navarraise and Zerlina. In concert she once achieved the feat of singing in a single programme Rossini arias and Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene, proof of her exceptional versatility. Throughout her lengthy career she was an admired recitalist, singing lieder, mélodies, Spanish and American songs with equal aplomb." Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. Ms. Horne made her début in Los Angeles as Háta in The Bartered Bride in 1954, then spent three seasons at Gelsenkirchen (1956-1959), singing both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles. She first appeared in San Francisco in 1960, as Marie in Wozzeck, the role in which she débuted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1964. She first sang at La Scala as Jocasta in Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex in 1969 and at the Metropolitan Opera as Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma in 1970, with Dame Joan Sutherland in the title role. Her long association with Sutherland began in New York in 1961 with a concert performance of Beatrice di Tenda in which Horne sang Agnese; this led to numerous other treasured performances of the bel canto repertoire featuring these two legends of the concert stage together. Ms. Horne appeared at the Met regularly, and holds the distinction of singing the title role in the first Handel opera ever performed there, the opera seria Rinaldo. She is also noted for her performance as Néocles in Le siege de Corinthe at La Scala in 1969 and as Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972; among her many Rossini roles were Malcolm in La donna del lago (1981, Houston and 1985, Covent Garden), Falliero in Bianca e Falliero (1986, Pesaro), Andromach in Ermione (1987, Pesaro), Calbo in Maometto II (1988, San Francisco), and Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri (1989, Covent Garden). Later in her career she sang Mistress Quickly (1988, San Francisco), and Delilah (1988, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées). Ms. Horne announced her retirement from performing in 1998. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades over the course of her long and illustrious career. The present catalogue is a small tribute to her special interest in and affection for many of the luminaries of operatic history. v 3 ______________________________________________________ Alboni Writes Recommending a Cornet Player 1. ALBONI, Marietta 1826-1894 Autograph letter signed "Marietta Alboni Pepoli" to an unidentified male correspondent, possibly Monsieur Guillen. 2 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated Paris, October 8, 1856. In French (with translation). Slightly worn and browned; creased at folds and with very small splits. Alboni asks her correspondent to help Briggi, a cornet player, who has just arrived in Paris on his way to concertize in London. "I dare to hope that you would use your influence to be useful to M. Briggi who, by all reports, is well worthy of the interest of all true artists." She asks that he gave her regards to Madame Guillen. Marietta Alboni appeared at La Scala, Vienna, Covent Garden, the Théâtre Italien, the Paris Opéra, and other important European opera houses. Rossini coached her in the principal contralto roles in his operas. Her voice "was considered a true contralto, rich and even from g to c‴, though she also sang several soprano roles, including Anna Bolena, Norina in Don Pasquale and Amina in La sonnambula. Her singing was thought by some to lack fire; nevertheless, the beauty of her voice and the perfection of her technique made her one of the great representatives of classical Italian bel canto." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. (30390) $225 ______________________________________________________ 4 Taglioni in La Sylphide 2. [BALLET - 19th Century - Italian] Taglioni, Marie 1804-1884 Broadside program for a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on June 10, 1837, featuring Taglioni performing in the second act of the ballet La Sylphide as well as in a "Neapolitaine" and a "Pas de Deux." With Marie's brother Paul Taglioni (1800-1884) performing "Le Pas Styrien" and a "Pas de Deux" with his wife Amalia Taglioni (née Galster, ca. 1808-1881) on the same program. The program also included a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio "for the last time" featuring Madame Schroeder Devrient in the role of Leonora. London: W. Wright, Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [ca. 1837]. 1 leaf (ca. 13" x 8"). Matted, framed, and glazed. Slightly browned and creased; laid down to mat. In very good condition overall. "Marie Taglioni's performance in La Sylphide (1832) is legendary for its ascendancy on both the physical and spiritual planes." The Dance Encyclopedia Vol. 6, p. 72. (30303) $200 ______________________________________________________ Autograph Note from the Distinguished Baritone 3. BATTISTINI, Mattia 1856-1928 Autograph note on a visiting card. 2.75" x 4.25." In French (with translation). With Battistini's name printed in cursive lettering. Slightly worn, browned, and soiled. "Would you like to hear my latest?... I am returning to St. Petersburg next year. At the moment I am leaving to get some rest..." By 1902, "Battistini had established himself throughout Europe, and especially in Russia, as a baritone almost without rival in the older repertory and scarcely less famous in later and widely varied roles... After an early engagement at Buenos Aires he never again visited America, and was doubtless the most important singer of his day to have resisted the pull of the Metropolitan – owing, it is said, to his dread of the Atlantic crossing... Battistini’s voice was an unusually high baritone... The quality was noble: clear, strong, vibrant... He was a meticulous stylist with a superb florid technique. He had fabulous agility and breath control, and could spin out long phrases in the smoothest legato or execute the most flamboyant of flourishes, all with a natural instinct for the grand manner." Desmond Shawe-Taylor in Grove Music Online. (30373) $125 5 Portrait of Bellini 4. BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835 Reproduction of a bust-length portrait etching. Artist unknown. 6.5" x 4.25". Matted with an autograph facsimile signature of the composer in a separate small window, framed and glazed. Overall size 13.25" x 10.25". Bellini was "a leading figure in early 19th-century opera, admired particularly for the graceful, expressive lines of his melodies." Simon Maguire and Friedrich Lippmann in Grove Music Online (30321) $75 ______________________________________________________ Vintage Photograph of the Noted Contralto, Signed 5. BUTT, Dame Clara 1872-1936 Original bust-length photograph by Bassano Ltd. of the noted English contralto with large autograph signature "Clara Butt Rumford 1916" to lower portion of image. Photograph ca. 7.5" x 5.5". Laid down to mount and attractively matted in hexagonal light green watered silk mat in a golden oak-toned frame. Signature faded. "Dame Clara was a tall woman, standing 6′2″. Her voice was exceptionally powerful (someone remarked that the Albert Hall must have been built in intelligent anticipation of Butt’s advent), with a trombone-like boom in the lower register. She made many records. Such majestic and powerful means when applied to a song such as Goodhart’s A fairy went a-marketing may raise a smile, but the smile is tempered by admiration for the magnificent voice and the beautiful articulation of the words." J.A. Fuller Maitland, H.C. Colles and Andrew Porter in Grove Music Online.The firm of Bassano Ltd. was active from 1901 to 1962. The National Portrait Gallery holds the glass negative of the present image. (30309) $150 6 Fine Portrait Medallion of Callas 6. CALLAS, Maria 1923-1977 Bust-length circular bronze portrait medallion by Nicholas Perantinos of the highly distinguished New York-born Greek soprano.