Photograph of Sessions seated at the piano, pen in hand, with sheets of manuscript paper before him. Signed and inscribed to fellow composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell

by Roger Sessions

$350 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

Inscribed in blue ballpoint pen at lower blank margin: To Joaquin, To celebrate the initial struggles of his high office! Roger and dated Feb. 12, 1951. Photograph 260 x 209 mm., with Cal-Pictures Photographic Associates handstamp in blue ink to verso. Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. After his death, Andrew Porter wrote of him, ‘For music, he embodied what is finest in American thought, character, and genius. In

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