Bidspirit auction | KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG: (1897-1957)

KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG: (1897-1957) - KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG: (1897-1957) Austrian composer and conductor, noted for his film scores. Academy Award winner. A good A.L.S., Erich Wolfgang Korngold , one page, 8vo, n.p., 1st May 1935, to an unidentified gentleman, on the printed stationery of New York Central Lines ( ´En Route´ ), in German. Korngold, in an interesting statement on music, rhetorically asks ´What is music?´ and continues ´Music is - poetically - time made audible. Music is - physically - expression of man´s intellect in harmonically ordered acoustical vibrations, and - in jest, perhaps as well as in earnest - music is that which the classical composers up to and including Richard Strauss and Stravinsky.....have designated as music´ . With blank integral leaf. A letter of fine content. A small band of light discolouration to the foot of the page, only very slightly affecting the signature, otherwise VG