[Musicians] Anton Rubinstein & Five Others. Autograph Musical Quotations Signed by six musicians and composers, five on one 10 x 12¼ sheet and one on an 8 x 6 in. page of stationery. On the large sheet, the Belgian composer, Albert Grisar (1808-1869), wrote a bar of music and signed and dated it Anvers, 6 November 1840. Below Grisar, a ten-year-old Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) inscribes his AMQS in French to Mlle Elisa Meerti, and signs himself as a pupil of Mr. Alexander Villoing, Vienna, 1939. Villoing's AMQS is below Rubinstein's and is dated Vienna, 2 April 1842. At the bottom of the page, an older, famous Rubinstein signs and writes boldly in French, "30 years later…" On the verso, the Italian tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) wrote an AMQS with lyrics and dated it London, 6 July 1841. Below Rubini is another AMQS by someone whose name we can't make out, dated Vienna, 27 March 1842. On a piece of stationery belonging to a young American who studied music in Europe, and who may have collected all of these AMQSs, Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-1933), known as one of the greatest exponents of Chopin, wrote an AMQS but did not date it; a faint penciled date, February 4, 1924, is written lower in another hand. The sheets are toned and lightly soiled. All writing is dark and bold.
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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