Music - Autograph - Edward Elgar miniature score of Elgar's ...

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Music - Autograph - Edward Elgar miniature score of Elgar's Second Symphony, bearing his signature (on a slip of paper laid to title page). The score is also signed by various conductors with indications of when and where the signatures were obtained. Signatures include Adrian Boult (with autograph dedication), Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, Antol Dorati, Charles Groves, Edward Downes, Bernard Haitink and Alexander Gibson (this one laid down). Spine Repaired with sticky tape (which we recommend should be removed as soon as possible), otherwise good throughout. Together with a printed score signed by Leonox Berkeley, two printed scores by Hans Werner Henze both signed by him on the title pages, a copy of 'The Creation of Character in Literature' by John Galsworthy, signed by him, and a printed script of Uncle Vanya by Chekhov, signed by members of a production of the play