ELI GOREN - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: CECIL ARONOWITZ, PETER THOMAS, PATRICK IRELAND - HFSID 112275

ELI GOREN, CO-SIGNED BY: PATRICK IRELAND, PETER THOMAS, CECIL ARONOWITZ
Album leaf signed by Eli Goren, who founded the Allegri String Quartet; Cecil Aronowitz, who founded the Melos Ensemble; movie composer Peter Thomas; and Patrick Ireland, one of the first members of the Allegri String Quartet
Signatures: "Eli Goren", "Patrick Ireland", "Peter Thomas" and "Cecil Aronowitz", 5¾x4 album leaf. With three unidentified signatures on verso in black ink and pencil notations in unknown hand. GOREN (1923-2000, born Eli Gruenberg in Vienna, Austria) was a violinist who played in Jerusalem and London, England. He was leader of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 1947 to 1950 before going to London, where he played with numerous groups, including a duo with pianist Doreen Stanfield in 1951, whom he later married, and his own internationally-acclaimed chamber quartet, the Allegri String Quartet, founded in 1953. IRELAND was one of the first musicians that Gorenrecruited forthe Allegri String Quartet, on viola. Goren left the Allegri String Quartet in 1968 when he was appointed co-leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until 1968. He moved to Utrecht, Holland in 1982 to teach at the Utrecht Conservatory; he retired there six years later. THOMAS, born in Breslau, Silesia, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland, in 1925, is a German composer whose best known for composing songs for TV shows and movies - almost 130 TV shows and movies in all. Most of these are German-language productions, beginning with 1955's Das Kleine Abc - Ein Quintett, als Scherzo zu spielen. But he's also done songs for a few English-language productions, including Playgirl (1966), Jack of Diamonds (1967), the animated cartoon Once Upon a Time (1976) and Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (1977). ARONOWITZ (1916-1978, born in South Africa) was trained as a violinist during his childhood, but gave it up for the viola after World War II. He was one of a select group of musicians who worked with composer Benjamin Britten - the viola in his War Requiem (1962) was written for Aronowitz - and a teacher at the Royal College of Music. He was also a well-known chamber music player. He formed his own expanded chamber group, the Melos Ensemble, in 1950, in order to perform larger chamber works. This became one of the premiere expanded chamber groups. Lightly toned and creased. Discolored at top edge and by binding at one edge. Leaf has been neatly torn from album on one edge. Otherwise, fine condition.