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ZELMAN ALBERTO.: The Argus Galop.
Melbourne, Nicholson and Ascherberg. Cover dated 23/1/1880. With a superb lithographed front cover by C. Troedel of Melbourne of coloured titles and an inset of the Melbourne Argus Newspaper ' front cover' of the adverts of the day. Also on the back page the publishers many adverts including a lithograph of their shop front. The composer Alberto Zelman (1832-1907) who was born in Trieste arrived in Melbourne via Cairo and Sydney in 1872 to be conductor of the Lyster Opera Company and where he stayed for at least a decade. He was also a President of the Musical Society of Victoria and as conductor of the Australian Military Band for nearly twenty-five years he was a familiar figure at Victoria Racing Club meetings at Flemington.he was a piano teacher and a considerable organist. He composed a number of pieces for the publishers. Folio size with music. Condition VG.
Offered for EUR 65.00 = appr. US$ 91.26 by: Olde Musick & Cokery Books - Book number: 6767
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