signed first edition Hardcover
1916 · Mainz and Leipzig
by KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang
Mainz and Leipzig: B. Schott's Söhne, 1916. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Vocal score. Rebound in black cloth, with front wrap mounted on front board. Small book label of collector Herbert Boyce Satcher on the front board, else near fine. Tipped to the page facing the first page of music is an Autograph Musical Quotation (approximately 6" x 10") Inscribed and Signed by Korngold in 1936. Korngold's second opera, written when the Austrian musical prodigy and composer was 19 years old (as a child he had been praised by Gustav Mahler, Artur Schnabel, and Richard Strauss). Korngold went to Hollywood in 1934 to adapt Mendelssohn's music for (truncated)