Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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April 11
On This Day
On this day in 1935 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premiered in London. Some of his music of the 1930s had an explicitly dark, even violent tone and the Fourth Symphony surprised the public and critics. The discordant and violent tone of the symphony, written at a time of growing international tension, led many critics to suppose the symphony to be programmatic.
In 1959 Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, married Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Imperial Family. They had met on a tennis court and had a fairytale romance.
BERLIN MUSICIANS, 1930
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Ralph, 1872-1958, British Composer)
Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, from his ‘Pastoral Symphony’, three bars 4/4 in G major, beginning with the rising fifth in the bass clef, written at the top right of an attractive collection of musical quotations, nearly all signed by the composers, who are evidently associated with the famous Berliner Liedertafel (male voice choir, founded in 1884 by Adolf Zander), with, in the top left corner, a fine pencil sketch, head and neck, of Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832, founder of the original Berliner Liedertafel in 1809), signed ‘M. Wutzer’, followed by Max Wiedemann, Director, ‘Fest und klar, treu und wahr’ (‘Steadfast and clear, loyal and true’), the choir’s motto in four parts A Major, Klaus Pringsheim, (1883-1972, from 1931 promoter in Japan of western music), ‘Weh, weh, weh und weh ob Elend, Sklaverei und Not’, (‘Oh, oh, oh, oh, the misery, slavery and stress’), his ‘Arbeitslied’ (‘Song of the workplace’), and by nine others, 1 side 8¾” x 7¼”, no place, no date, circa 1930
55690
[AKIHITO (b. 1933, from 1989 Emperor of Japan) and his wife MICHIKO (née Shoda, b. 1934)]
Beautifully Printed Menu of the Banquet given by the Corporation of London for them, with a Japanese Chrysanthemum on the cover and a photograph of the Emperor and Empress inside, 10 sides and Japanese-style endpapers in covers 11¾” x 8¼”, Guildhall, London, 27th May 1998
56652
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