GRETCHANINOV ALEXANDER: (1864-1956) Russian Composer. An unusual signed and corrected proof copy of ...

GRETCHANINOV ALEXANDER: (1864-1956) Russian Composer. An unusual signed and corrected proof copy of ...
GRETCHANINOV ALEXANDER: (1864-1956) Russian Composer. An unusual signed and corrected proof copy of the sheet music for Gretchaninov's composition Herbst (Op.11), twenty-six pages, folio, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, 30th August 1929. The sheet music, printed in green and white and on unbound pages, with words in German and Cyrillic, feature over fifty holograph corrections by the composer, many to the white borders. Signed by Gretchaninov to the head of the first page at the conclusion of a note, in French, advising of his address in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and, after the 12th September, in Paris. Also with the oval rubber stamp of the publisher to the head of the first page. Rare in this form. Together with a manuscript copy (unsigned and in an unidentified hand) of Gretchaninov's String Quartet No. 4 in F major (Op.124), seventy-four pages, folio, boldly penned in fountain pen ink on printed manuscript paper (unbound). Some light overall age wear, about VG, 2