A nice copy of this very rare facsimile.

The Spanish theorist Padre Eximeno was forced to leave Spain with the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. He settled in Rome where he published this his first work which, according to Grove VI, " shows a strong bias against contrapuntal rules and against linking music with his former speciality, mathematics.... Late 19th-century Spaniards rightly considered Eximeno a national hero in his polemical and theoretical battles with Tartini, Cerone, Rameau, Euler and Martini."

This is perhaps the most charming of all children's songbooks, with well known children's songs arranged by no less than Charles Widor. It is primarily known for its illustrations by the French painter and illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1851-1913). It first appeared in 1883. Each of the 29 songs is beautifully illustrated, one nicer than the next and all with great wit.

Very handsome printing with engraved vignettes at the head and end of each act. Each act preceded by a plot summary on a separate page with engraved designs. Madame Sans-Gêne, based on a play by Sardou and Moreau with a libretto by Renato Simoni, had its premiere at the Metropolitan in New York January 25, 1915, under the direction of Toscanini.

Anderson's definitive work first appeared in 1938.This second edition includes seven letters which have come to light since the first edition and is reduced in size from three volumes to two volumes by resetting the work in a contemporary format and removing the letters from Constanze Mozart to Johann Anton André.

A photographic facsimile of the manuscript of one of the most popular pieces in the chamber music repertory.

Complete set of four parts, each with handsomely engraved title page. Benton 3400.

Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Poulenc's first opera, used as its libretto a 1905 Apollinaire play. Poulenc started it in 1939 but wrote it mostly during the summer of 1944 shortly before the end of World War II. The plot is about a wife who discards womanhood -- her breasts float away as two balloons -- and whose husband takes on the role of childbearing, producing 40,000 babies per day. After the devastation of the war, Poulenc promoted the government's call to increase population with this burlesque opera, the chorus declaiming at the end: "Frenchmen, make babies!" The opera is dedicated to Poulenc's good friend the composer Darius Milhaud, to celebrate his return from the U.S.A. after the war. The premiere was given at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in June of 1947. The eminent Russian artist Erté, who designed the décor, also designed the titlepage of the score

Quoting from Grove VI: "in 1860 he [Schindler] published the work for which he is best remembered, the third edition of his Beethoven Biographie, a completely rewritten and hence much more responsible chronicle of the Beethoven he knew...... Schindler became Beethoven's secretary, errand boy and factotum...and was tireless in attendance at Beethoven's bedside until the end".

This charming tiny book describes the history of Stravinsky's ballet Petrouchka, which is undoubtedly one of the most beloved of 20th-century ballets.

A fantastic early art nouveau production with the Rheingold legend told in pictures by Wilhelm Weimar and with decorated text by Hans Paul von Wolzogen.

A setting of Solomon Smulewitz' account of Ida Straus heroic and touching decision to stay with her husband as The Titanic sank, after hitting an iceberg on its famous maiden voyage.