AUTOGRAPH 500 Moissaye Boguslawski DIZZY FINGERS novelty rag 1924 EE+

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A rare copy of circa 1924-25 Marsh Labs AUTOGRAPH 500...pianist MOISSAYE BOGUSLAWSKI rips up DIZZY FINGERS ( many many notes!!)/Prelude C Sharp Minor (Rachmaninoff)..nice shinny EE+ copy ..
The American pianist, composer, teacher, and editor, Moissaye Boguslawski, was born in Chicago of musical Russian parentage. His father and grandfather, both musicians, were victims of Russian political rigor and fled to America to escape further persecution. His mother also was musical and her youthful ambition was to become an opera singer. When her son was born she transferred her ambition to him, hoping and praying that he would become a real musician. When he was 4 years old she persuaded his father to buy an old square piano, and he began to take lessons - one lesson a week, at fifty cents each, which was all the family could afford. The period of his childhood and youth was a dire struggle with poverty, which he won through only by his own dogged perseverance. When ten years old he began to go with his father to play at weddings. At 15 he was playing the piano in one of Chicago's cheap dance halls for from eight to twelve hours at a stretch - meanwhile keeping up his practice at home. A little later he managed, by doing without everything but the bare necessities of life, to take some lessons from Rudolph Ganz, who was then sojourning in Chicago for a time - the only really worth-while instruction he ever had.

Having already done a good deal of teaching, he obtained when 20 years old an appointment as head of the piano department of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. While holding that position he began to give recitals, and gradually his reputation as an exceptionally able pianist spread throughout the Middle West and Southwest. In 1916 he made his first visit to the East and won glowing tributes from the leading critics in New York, Boston, and other cities. Since then he appeared as soloist with many of the best orchestras (such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra), and concertized throughout the USA with steadily growing acclaim. He had joint concerts with Calve, Scotti and others. He recorded for Duo-Art and Welte-Mignon; on the radio: WIND, Gary, Ind. He was professor of piano playing at Chicago Musical College (degree of Honorary Mus. D.), and taught also at the Bush Conservatory. Later he was head of Boguslawski College of Music.

In addition to his career as a pianist and education, Moissaye Boguslawski was prominent as a composer. His compositions include: Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 1, Venetian Boat Song, Valse Russe, Frog's Frolic, Sunny Italy, Little Jumbo, Donkey Ride, Tambourines and Castanets, French Soldier's March, Old Tick Tock, Chatter Box, Russian Danse, Ballet Dancer, Tango; other works for piano (published by M. M. Cole Co.); Overture to a Carnival, for orchestra.
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N- = like new (a 9 1/2 to 10 out of 10!), E+ = a virtually perfect copy with only minor signs of having been played ( a 9 out of 10), E = very slight signs of wear, maybe some minor scuffing and/or light scratches but a very clean copy with little groove wear ( 8 out of 10),E- = slightly above average copy, some groove wear and minor blemishes but a very decent copy ( a 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 out of 10), VG+ = an average copy, signs of use, some groove wear but still a decent copy ( 5-6 out of 10), VG = wear, scuffing, light scratches but a very playable copy ( 4 out of 10), VG- getting scary!...will play but is quite worn ( 3 out of 10), G+ = a playable copy but very very worn ( 2 out of 10), G through G- = in the words of my pal RUSS SHOR " a wall hanger!" P = a hunk of shellac which once might have been a phonograph record!

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