1939 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

Signed by the Concerto's pianist Solomon Cutner (better known professionally as Solomon) to the work's credits. A child prodigy, he retired from public performance in his teens and then resumed his career as an adult performer, particularly acclaimed for his renditions of Beethoven. 

The first edition of this sheet music for Arthur Bliss' Concerto, which was commissioned by the British Council for the 1939 New York World's Fair, an international exposition at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens. 

Bliss became known as an unconventional and modernist composer in the post-war years, composing extensively not only for the concert hall, but also for ballet and films. 

In the publisher's quarter cloth bound wraps.