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Price: $175.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
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Three bar autographed musical quotation on an 8” x 10” sheet of music paper, Boston, December 24, 1892. Zerrahn (1824-1909) born and trained in Germany as a flautist and conductor, left for the United States during the 1848 revolutions there. He came to the United States as a founding member of “The Germania Music Society” a touring orchestra which played concerts on their own, as well as accompanied touring stars like Jenny Lind, pianist Sigismund Thalberg, Henriette Sontag and Olle Bull. The orchestra disbanded in 1854 and by 1855, he had moved to Boston and founded “The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra” which he conducted until 1863. From 1865, he led the Harvard Musical Association concerts until they disbanded in 1882. His greatest achievements were as Music Director of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, which he led from 1854 until 1895. Zerrahn also was the chorus master for Gilmore’s 1869 and 1872 Peace Jubilees, where he directed the first year a chorus of 10,000 and the second a chorus of 20,000 with Johann Strauss sohn as a conductor. The musical quotation would logically be from Handel’s “Messiah” owning to the time of year and the very work Zerrahn was conducting at the time. However, it is not, we have played it over and over and even run it by some chorus masters and thus far everyone is perplexed! |
CARL ZERRAHN - CONDUCTOR |
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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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