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Price: $1450.00 |
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FINE CONDITION |
DIMITRI SHOSKAKOVICH - COMPOSER |
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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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One page autographed letter signed, Moscow, November 1, 1954. Offered with an original, youthful period glossy Soviet postcard photograph of the composer.
He writes to an unknown female:
Dear ,
I ask you to do me a favor, give this to E. A. Mravinsky and please forgive that I am asking you to do such a favor.
Fondly,
D. Shostakovich
Shostakovich's reputation was revived from his second denunciation after the death of Stalin in 1953. Eugene Mravinsky, the Music Director of the Leningrad Philharmonic and a legendary conductor in his own lifetime had performed the premiere of his 10th Symphony on December 17, 1953; 10 months after Stalin's death.
There is no way to tell what Shostakovich sent, to his greatest friend and supporter, but based on the fact that he felt compelled to write a note of thanks for the delivery in advance, he obviously still had concerns about doing such a thing himself.
Perfect for presentation!
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