Author: LEVENSON, Boris
Title: Russian Cradle Song
Description: New York, Belwin Inc, 1930. Paperback. 4to. Wrappers. 4pp. Very good. Faintest bit of edgewear; "St. Louis Conservatory of Music" inkstamp at lower left of front wrapper. Handsome first edition of this sheet music from the "Ten Melodious Piano Pieces in Polyphonic Style Preparatory to Bach" series -- this copy boldly signed and inscribed in black ink by the composer along the top edge of the front wrapper: "To Prof. Edgar L. McFadden with compliments of the composer / Boris Levenson / New York, Jan. 22, 1936." Levenson (1884-1947) was a Russian-born composer and conductor who immigrated to America in 1920 and is best known for his Jewish folk songs; McFadden was a St. Louis music educator and choral director. .

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