Boito, Arrigo - Maurel, Victor - Garbin, Edoardo - Arimondi, Vittorio - Falstaff World Premiere Program Signed Programs Music Unsigned Pianists Jan Brandts-Buys & Marguerite Melville

Jan Brandts-Buys & Marguerite Melville

at Carnegie Hall

and the vintage print with the composer

Three Hugo Wolf related items from the estate of Melanie Koechert

February 1973

Boito, Arrigo - Maurel, Victor - Garbin, Edoardo - Arimondi, Vittorio - Falstaff World Premiere Program Signed Programs Music Unsigned Pianists Jan Brandts-Buys & Marguerite MelvilleProgram libretto for the world premiere of Verdis opera Falstaff in 1893 signed by composer and the writer of this operas libretto, Arrigo Boito (1842 1918), plus 3 of the performers at the world premiere: star French baritone Victor Maurel (1848 1923) (who was the first Falstaff ever), Italian tenor Garbin (1865 1943) (who performed as Fenton), Italian bass Vittorio Arimondi (1861 1928) (as Pistola).