Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Manuscript – Musical-Notes Booklet for a Wedding and for Simchat Torah – Soviet Union, early 20th Century
Opening: $600
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Svadebnyya Tenor [Wedding / (Simchat Torah) / Tenor]. Musical-notes, Lowenstein printing press, [Soviet Union, St. Petersburg?], [early 20th cent.].
Handwritten musical-notes booklet (several composers). Musical-notes for a tenor singer, for more than thirty different songs. The custom is to sing these songs during a wedding ceremony and on Simchat Torah. The texts in Hebrew appear next to the musical-notes, with a transcript into Latin letters and Cyrillic letters. Amongst the songs in the notebook: HaMal'ach HaGo'el, Av HaRachamim, Malchutcha, Hitkabtzu Malachim, Lel Olam Bekol Todah, Hashem Shomrecha, Halleluiah, and others; next to some of the songs appear names of composers, cantors of the 19th cent., amongst them Solomon Sulzer, Louis Lewansowski and David Naumberg. Ink-stamp of the Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg appears on all of the leaves. [52] pp, 18.5X26 cm. Fair condition. Tears at borders of leaves, loose leaves.
Handwritten musical-notes booklet (several composers). Musical-notes for a tenor singer, for more than thirty different songs. The custom is to sing these songs during a wedding ceremony and on Simchat Torah. The texts in Hebrew appear next to the musical-notes, with a transcript into Latin letters and Cyrillic letters. Amongst the songs in the notebook: HaMal'ach HaGo'el, Av HaRachamim, Malchutcha, Hitkabtzu Malachim, Lel Olam Bekol Todah, Hashem Shomrecha, Halleluiah, and others; next to some of the songs appear names of composers, cantors of the 19th cent., amongst them Solomon Sulzer, Louis Lewansowski and David Naumberg. Ink-stamp of the Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg appears on all of the leaves. [52] pp, 18.5X26 cm. Fair condition. Tears at borders of leaves, loose leaves.
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