CLASSICAL  COMPOSERS' AUTOGRAPHED  LPs

The Durbeck Archive has been collecting autographed LPs for more than  40 years. Of the 6,000+ autographed records in the Archive, over 95% have been personally obtained by me and can, therefore, be truly authenticated.  Those LPs shown on this page are but the "tip of the iceberg." There are many many more since when I would meet a composer, I would have everything I currently owned by that composer autographed. My personal interest in having my records signed is twofold: first, these meetings have provided me with the opportunity to meet the artists themselves and secondly, I feel autographs are a personal manner of validating an artist's recorded legacy.  The phonograph record is the document and the autograph is that artist's imprimatur for that performance.  This combination is, therefore, a historical document. 

Connecting to the full Archive data entries for the signed operas exhibited

For all of the opera entries, the corresponding record number will be listed as a bold hyperlink to www.datalogue.info - the Internet database of  The Durbeck Archive, where over 8,500 complete opera entries are definitively catalogued.

The Autograph Composer: 

John Adams (b.1947)

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Peter Sellars (director), Edo de Waart (conductor),  
Jim Maddalena, Carolann Page, Sanford Sylvan, 
John Duykers 

 

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The Autograph Composer:

Jack Beeson (b.1921)

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inscribed, "For the collection of Burbeck (sic) III from the composer, Jack Beeson;"
Brenda Lewis 

                                                                      DST 6455/56/57

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The Autograph Composer:

Leonard Bernstein 
(1918-1990)

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This the autograph page of Leonard Bernstein.

Image 1. is the boxed set, autographed by Kiri Te Kanawa, Marilyn Horne and Tatiana Troyanos; Image 2. is the gatefold flexi-jacket autographed by Bernstein on the libretto.

The Autograph Composer:

Pierre Boulez (b.1925)

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The Autograph Composer:

Dave Brubeck (b.1920)

Click on image to view larger image.This the autograph page of Dave Brubeck.Also autographed by:
William Justus


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The Autograph Composer:

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Click on image to view larger image.This the autograph page of Aaron Copland.Also autographed by:  Julia Migenes, who was a student at the High School of Music and Art in New York City when this recording was made. 

                                                  MS 6181

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The Autograph Composer:

George Crumb (b.1929)

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The Autograph Composer:

Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934)

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The Autograph Composer:

Attila Dobos (-)

 


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 Inscribed: "Strém Kálmánnak, sok szeretettel,
                     Dobos Attila, 1992 June 4"

 Translation: " For Kálmán Strém, with much love,
                        Atilla Dobos , 1992 June 4"

 There are 3000 numbered copies and some  
 unnumbered complimentary copies. This copy is   dedicated to  Kálmán Strém.

                                                 MHX 9001

The Autograph Composer:

Werner Egk (1901-1983)

 

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                                                              Click on either image to view larger image                  19 062 LPEM

The Autograph Composer:

Carlisle Floyd (b.1926)

Click on image to view larger image.Note: The other Archive recording of this opera (IGS 037/38) is also signed by Carlisle Floyd as well as Julius Rudel (conductor), Norman Treigle, Maralin Niska, Bernard Fitch, David Hall and Harry Theyard

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The Autograph Composer:

Lukas Foss (b.1922)

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                                                                   Click on either image to view larger image                             LL 11

The Autograph Composer:

Philip Glass (b. 1937)

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301 345

M3 42457

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The Autograph Composer:

Lee Hoiby (b.1926)

The Opera is: BEATRICE

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The Autograph Composer:

Franz Hummel (b.1939)

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Note: The Durbeck Archive as another opera also autographed by the composer Franz Hummel, KÖNIG UBU (col legno,
BM 30 SL 6.5501/02.

 
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The Autograph Composer:

Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)

Click here to view larger image. Also autographed by:  Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart





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The Autograph Composer:

György Ligeti (b.1923)


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                                                                  Click on image to view larger image                             WER 60085

The Autograph Composer:

Witold Lutoslawski
(1913-1994)

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The Autograph Composer:

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911)

Click here to view larger image.This the autograph page of Gian-Carlo Menotti.

Also autographed by:
Jorge Mester (conductor)
John Reardon

 

                                                                SR 90521
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The Autograph Composer:

Henry Mollicone (b.1946)

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                                                                    Click on image to view larger image                           CRI SD 442

The Autograph Composer:

Thea Musgrave (b.1928)

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Ashley Putnam, Jon Garrison, Kenneth Bell



                                                                                 MMG 301

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The Autograph Composer:

Harry Partch (1901-1974)

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   Also autographed by:
   Allan Louw

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unnumbered.06

The Autograph Composer:

Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933)

Click here to view larger image.This the autograph page of Krzysztof Penderecki.Also autographed by Tatiana Troyanos
Note 1: autographed by Penderecki on a libretto page Note 2: the second Archive copy of this opera is also autographed (name only, no music) by Penderecki on the first page of the libretto under his name
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The Autograph Composer:

Aribert Reimann (b.1936)

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The Autograph Composer:

Roger Reynolds (b.1934)

Click here to view larger image.This the autograph page of Roger Reynolds.Also autographed by: 
Carol Plantamura





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The Autograph Composer:

Phillip Rhodes (b.1940)

This the autograph page of Phillips Rhodes.Click here to view larger image.Also autographed by: 
Jorge Mester (conductor) 
Robert Speaight



                                      LS 723/24
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The Autograph Composer:

Ned Rorem (b.1923)

Click here to view larger image.This the autograph page of Ned Rorem.Also autographed and inscribed,
"This was - is - a present to me from Ned Rorem, Phyllis Curtin"



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The Autograph Composer:

John Rutter (b.1945)

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The Autograph Composer:   Aullis Sallinen (b.1935)

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Also autographed by: 
Ulf Söderblom (conductor),
Matti Salminen, 
Heikki Toivanen


Click on image to view larger image                                               FA 101 LP3

The Autograph Composer:

Nicolas Slonimsky
(1894-1995)

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Laurindo Almeida and Deltra Eamon




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The Autograph Composer:

Leo Smit (1921-1999)

Click here to view larger image.This the autograph page of Leo Smit.Note:  autographed and inscribed,
"To Ed & Klara, in appreciation and thanks for a glorious time. Leo, 2.23.97"



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The Autograph Composer:

Virgil Thomson
  (1896- 1989)

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LM 2756

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 9 79035

Also autographed by:
Betty Allen
Gwendolyn Bradley
Florence Quivar
Benjamin Matthews
Arthur Thompson

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 NW 288/9

Also autographed by:
Raymond Leppard, Mignon Dunn, Douglas Perry, Ashley Putnam,
Batyah Godfrey, Linn Maxwell,
William Lewis, Joseph McKee,
James Atherton, Philip Booth

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The Autograph Composer:

David Ward-Steinman
(b.1936)

Click here to view larger imageThis the autograph page of David Ward-Steinman.
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The Autograph Composer:

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

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