Bidspirit auction | BUSONI FERRUCCIO: (1866-1924)

BUSONI FERRUCCIO: (1866-1924) - BUSONI FERRUCCIO: (1866-1924) Italian composer, pianist & conductor. A.M.Q.S., Ferruccio Busoni , one page, 8vo, n.p., 19th March 1901. Busoni has penned a brief quotation of one bar which he identifies as being from Marcia , also adding an inscription in his hand above the quotation. Together with a vintage unsigned cabinet photograph, the sepia albumen print by H. S. Mendelssohn of Pembridge Crescent, London, and depicting Busoni in an appealing head and shoulders profile pose. With the photographer´s imprint to the lower mount and verso. Some light age wear and a few small pencil and ink annotations to the mount of the photograph, and a strip of tape to the upper edge of the verso, G to VG, 2 Busoni composed a number of marches during his lifetime, the most famous being t he Marcia Trionfale (Triumphal March), Op. 34 (BV 220), written for orchestra in 1888. Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn (1847-1908) German-born British portrait photographer who opened his flagship studio at Pembridge Crescent in 1886 and remained there until his death in 1908.