"Die Musikalische Akademie München (1811–1911): Festschrift zur Feier des hundertjährigen Bestehens."

München: E. Mühlthaler. 1911. First. Quarto.  202 pp. with frontispiece, plates, portraits, and two facsimile 1811 broadsides, one mounted to an interior page and the other loose.  Title-blocked pictorial cloth.  Published to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Musical Academy of the Bavarian State Orchestra, the book includes descriptions and contemporary reviews of major events and concerts throughout the ensemble's first century.  One area of spotting to front cover upper right, moderate cover wear, and half inch split to spine upper edge.  Overall in fine condition.

Together with an original 1911 broadside and bifold program for the orchestra's 100th anniversary concert, with a program that included Richard Wagner's revision of the overture from Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulis, Schubert's "Chor de Genien," and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.  Horizontal creases to both, overall in fine condition.  Program 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.), broadside 8.5 x 13.5 inches (21.6 x 34.3 cm.).

Founded in 1811 by eleven members of the Bavarian Royal Court Orchestra, the Musikalische Akademie München, now the Musikalische Akademie des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters, operates with the fundamental mission to bring symphonic music to as many people as possible. (20814)

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