Fry, Wiliam Henry - Signature Cut 1858 on Score recently_added 1950) and singer

1950) and singer

American pianist and composer (1898-1990)

shown as himself and dated in 1921

Belarus-born canto (1919-1985)

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Fry, Wiliam Henry - Signature Cut 1858 on Score recently_added 1950) and singerAmerican composer (1813 1864), music critic, and journalist; the first in the USA to composer for large orchestra and get his own operas publicly performed. Piece of paper with his signature and a short text dated in New York, 1858, mounted on the first page of the score with selections from his opera Leonora (1845) published by E. Ferrett & Co. (Philadelphia). Size is 10. 3 x 13. 3 inches, 12 pages, soft covers, water stains on score, front cover a