Cyrill Kistler KUNIHILD: Opera in Three Acts and 12 similar items

KUNIHILD Oper In Drei Acten. Musik von Cyrill Kistler Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch, 1884. First edition. Custom bound in contemporary maroon leather with gilt-stamped cover title and rules to the front panel, horizontal rules to the spine, gilt-stamped signature device of "Neville Lynn" and rules to the rear panel; all edges gilt, heavy coated pale yellow paper endpapers. Scuff marks along the spine and shelf extremities, corner tips worn, else very good. A musical opera score (in German) sent by Cyrill Kistler to Neville Lynn and specially bound by Lynn. Quarto (approximately 8" by 11") 206 pages. Frontispiece portrait drawing. Lynn has mounted, to the front pastedown, the original address mailing sheet (made out in Kistler's hand) SIGNED by Kistler, with the addition of Lynn's notations in bold black ink. Loosely laid into the front is a one-page autographed handwritten letter (in German) from Kistler with the original envelope. Included is a handwritten translation of the letter. Dated 1893, Kistler states "...my affairs are always bad, so that I have no pleasure in working." Lynn has noted on the first blank leaf when and where he received the score back from the binder. Lynn has also SIGNED the first leaf of the score and the title-page in bold black ink, noting when he received the score from Kistler. Tipped-in at the rear is a proof copy of an extract from Press Notices of a performance of Kistler's KUNIHILD at Wurzburg (1893). Also laid in is a printed interview with Neville Lynn. Attached to the rear is photograph of Lynn's wife, opera soprano Ghita Corri, with her inscribed and SIGNED calling card. Newspaper clippings of Kistler at Covent Garden, Dusseldorf, and Kistler's obituary in 1907 have been attached to the rear endpaper (all annotated by Lynn in black ink). Cyrill Kistler (1848-1907) was a German composer, music theoretician, music educator, and music publisher. In his lifetime, Kistler became very well known through his work and by writing more than 200 works. He was placed on a par with Richard Strauss and, in a certain way, was in competition with him. In 1876, he got to know Richard Wagner, whose work exerted a deep influence on Kistler. Richard Wagner described his friend Cyrill Kistler as his only dignified successor.--all drawn from Wikipedia. Richard Neville Lynn (1869-1933) was an author, publisher, inventor, and collector of music manuscripts and books. He published at least twenty-five books in his "Acting Edition" series which included work by Israel Zangwell and an early play by A.E.W. Mason. He was married to Ghita Corri (1870-1937), the noted Scottish soprano who had appeared in at least thirty-five operas. A UNIQUE COPY OF THIS MUSICAL SCORE FREE SHIPPING to USA. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!