MUSIC - GUESTBOOK AND CORRESPONDENCE. - Lot 162

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MUSIC - GUESTBOOK AND CORRESPONDENCE. - Lot 162
MUSIC - GUESTBOOK AND CORRESPONDENCE. Nice set including a guestbook with 76 dedications and two autograph letters signed by Cortot to Claude Rémusat. GOLDEN BOOK belonging to Claude Rémusat (exlibris on the flyleaf), with 76 dedications, including a dozen musical staves, a very nice drawing by Serge Lifar. 76 pp. in-8. Burgundy basane, gilt border on the first cover and the spine, rubbed headbands, cold iron on the second cover, marbled paper endpapers. Binding signed Beauvais. We will mention only a few names: Arthur RUBINSTEIN, Wilhelm KEMPFF (range), Ralph KIRKPATRICK, Vladimir GOLSCHMANN, Aldo CICCOLINI, Leonid KOGAN, Brigit NILSSON, Henri DUTILLEUX, Pierre BOULEZ, Leonard BERNSTEIN, Serge LIFAR; CORTOT Alfred (1877-1962) 2 autograph letters signed to Claude Rémusat, Lausanne and Paris, June 30 [19]57 and November 10 [19]57. 2 pp. in-8 and in-folio. Heading "École normale de musique de Paris". On June 30, he thanks his correspondent for "I am deeply touched by your sending, and sensitive to the artistic quality of which it offers me the precious testimony! ()" [Claude Rémusat realized a portrait of Cortot in 1957] and concludes his letter by evoking the auditions of the pupils; on November 10, he still testifies to his admiration for his work. Two books on Malcuzynski and Roberto Benzi with a letter from the two artists to Claude Rémusat.
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