STRAVINSKY IGOR: (1882-1971) Russian Composer. A Good and clean A.M.Q.S., `Igor Stravinsky´, with inscription, to ...

STRAVINSKY IGOR: (1882-1971) Russian Composer. A Good and clean A.M.Q.S., `Igor Stravinsky´, with inscription, to an 8.5 x 10.5 (21,5 x 27 cm) page removed from an autograph album. Stravinsky pens ten musical notes, and below states in French `To the beautiful Marina F. Chaliapin, with my best souvenir.´ A bold black fountain pen ink cleanly written inscription, also dated in Rome 1954, both in Stravinsky´s hand. Ver small age toning to edges, otherwise about VG 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