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MUSIC AUTOGRAPHS & ANTIQUARIAN

Price: $165.00

MINT CONDITION

The eminent French composer, conductor and pedagogue autographs the cover of a Gala program by the “Brotherhood of Artists for the benefit of displaced persons of the French Colonies and Army orphans.” (Post WWI era)  He further pens a 4 bar music quotation from his opera, “Marouf.”  Rabaud, trained as an opera conductor and was Director of the Paris Opera from 1914-1918.  He left Paris to become the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1918-1919.  Rabaud started the long affair Boston had with French Music Directors, from Monteux to Munch.  He left Boston as he was offered the Directorship of the Paris Conservatoire, a post he held for 20 years.  A rare musical quotation.  We offer with a vintage postcard portrait for framing.

 

HENRI RABAUD - COMPOSER
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