SIGMUND SPAETH - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 299459
"The Tune Detective" is shown at a piano keyboard in this 5x7 black
and white photograph.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To/John Buscemi/with best
wishes/Sigmund Spaeth". B/w, 5x7. Musicologist Sigmund Spaeth
(1885-1965) composed the alma mater for Haverford College.
Price: $200.00
Condition: Fine condition
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SIGMUND SPAETH
"The Tune Detective" is shown at a piano keyboard in this 5x7 black
and white photograph.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To/John Buscemi/with best
wishes/Sigmund Spaeth". B/w, 5x7. Musicologist Sigmund Spaeth
(1885-1965) composed the alma mater for Haverford College. After
graduation, he wrote music articles for the New York Times,
Life and other publications. He composed scores for early talking
films, beginning with Gloria Swanson's first talkie, The Trespasser
(1929). Spaeth was best known for his radio programs however. His piano
instruction show, Keys to Happiness (1931) received 4,000 fan letters per
week. Other shows followed: The Tune Detective and Song Sleuth,
which traced the folk and classical origins of popular songs, and Sigmund
Spaeth's Musical Quiz (through 1947). Creased. Lightly worn. ½-inch tear at
left edge. Otherwise, fine condition.
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