Musical autographs: The autograph album of Joyce Proctor, da...

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£2,000 - £3,000

Musical autographs: The autograph album of Joyce Proctor, dated 1936, containing the autographs of many pre-eminent conductors, composers and concert musicians from the early half of the twentieth century. Including: John Barbirolli - Conductor Arturo Toscanini - Conductor Yehudi Menuhin - Violinist Jean Sibelius - Composer Sergei Rachmaninov - Pianist, composer (Russian) Thomas Beecham - Conductor Malcolm Sargent - Conductor Walter Gieseking - Pianist & Composer (French born, German) Pau (Pablo) Casals - Cellist (Catalan) He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. Ethel Bartlett - Concert Pianist Rae Robertson - Concert Pianist Isobel Baillie - Soprano (Scottish) Heddle Nash - Tenor Harold Williams - Baritone (Australian) E.C.Bairstow (Edward Cuthbert) - Organist & Composer Pouishnoff (Leff) - Pianist & Composer (Ukranian) Paul Robeson - Actor/Singer, Civil rights activist (American) Adolf Busch - Violinist & composer (German) Bruno Walter - Conductor, pianist & composer (German) widely considered one of the great conductors of the 20th century. Constant Lambert - Composer & conductor (Russian born, British) Egon Petri - Pianist (Dutch) Jascha Heifetz - Violinist (Russian) "perhaps the greatest violinist of all time." New York Times Laurance Tibbet - Baritone, (American) Plus many others we are unable to decipher. (See illustration)