Autograph Letter Signed D Shostakovich From The Young Composer To His Closest Friend At The Time

by Dmitri Shostakovich

$4,500 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians · No longer available

4 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Plus postscript on a small slip of paper ca. 98 x 80 mm laid in. In purple ink. Addressed to Eldosha nickname . Dated Gaspra, Crimea, 29 July 1924. In Cyrillic with translation .The not quite 18-year-old composer writes from the spa town of Gaspra, where he was sent to recuperate after contracting tuberculosis in 1923. After a somewhat obscene introduction, Shostakovich thanks Bogdanov-Berezovsky for inquiring about his work and

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