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ZELMAN ALBERTO.: Love in a Ballroom Waltz.
Melbourne, Nicholson & Ascherberg. C. early 1880's. With an unsigned full colour lithograph cover of a ballroom scene, with many couples dancing and some talking and over in the background a small cupid figure watching the scene. 2nd edition. 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. Scarce.
Offered for EUR 52.00 = appr. US$ 73.01 by: Olde Musick & Cokery Books - Book number: 6964
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