RACHMANINOFF SERGEI: (1873-1943) Russian Composer and Pianist. A fine and clean A.M.Q.S., signed twice, Sergei ...

RACHMANINOFF SERGEI: (1873-1943) Russian Composer and Pianist. A fine and clean A.M.Q.S., signed twice, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and `S.R.´ with his initials at the conclusion, one page, 8.5 x 10.5, (21,5 x 27 cm), page removed from an autograph album, in Italian. Rachmaninoff has carefully penned four bars of music in dark fountain pen ink. Signed and inscribed beneath the musical quotation `Per la bella e cara Marina´ (''For the pretty and dear Marina''), also dated 1934 in his hand. Small overall age wear with a very small stain to the lower edge, otherwise G Provenance: The present page originates from the personal autograph album of Marina Chaliapin (1912-2009), the daughter of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), widely regarded as one of the finest bass singers of the 20th century, and his mistress Marina Petsold (1882-1964) who became the singer's second wife in 1927. Chaliapin's daughter was married to Luigi Freddi (1895-1977) the Italian journalist and politician who edited the journal Il Popolo d'Italia and who was also hugely influential in Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and beginning of the 1940s