Rare Autographs, Books and Manuscripts
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AMQS from Piston's work "The Incredible Flutist" signed and dated November 1, 1974. Elegantly framed and matted with portrait photo. Walter Hamor Piston Jr, (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. His students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein.Piston's only dance work, The Incredible Flutist, was written for the Boston Pops Orchestra, which premiered it with Arthur Fiedler conducting on May 30, 1938. The dancers were Hans Weiner and his company.
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