Lot 108
Khachaturian, Aram (1903-1978). Armenian composer who created symphonies and ballets, concertos for the piano, violin, and cello as well as film scores and music for the Armenian national anthem.
Autograph Note Signed ("Aram Khachaturian"). In Russian. Three pages recto, small octavo, n.p., circa 1959. On graph paper from a spiral notebook. In black ink. To Mitrofan Kuzmich. Inherent perforations along upper edge. Ink has smeared affecting a few words. Else, in fine condition.
On behalf of a fellow composer, Khachaturian writes to a supposed concert hall manager: "I have received a letter from the esteemed Leningrad composer Valerian Mikhailovich Bogdaov Berezofsky in which her rightfully bemoans the fact that his compositions still haven't been performed in good concerts in good halls in Moscow … I ask that you, in the 1959-1960 season, in Moscow, in the Great, the Column or the Tchaikovsky Hall, produce the concert for violin with orchestra by Bogdanov-Berezovsky…".
Estimated Value $1,100 - 1,300.
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