INSCRIBED BY AARON COPLAND
COPLAND, Aaron. Danzon Cubano. London: Boosey & Hawkes, circa 1964. Quarto, original printed wrappers; pp. 45. $500.
Later edition of the full score for the orchestral version, inscribed by Copland on the title page, “For Stuart Wright. Aaron Copland, 1977.”
Composed in the 1942 for the 20th anniversary of the League of Composers, Danzon Cubano, originally written for two pianos, was first performed by the composer and Leonard Bernstein in December of that year. Based on the traditional danzon of Cuba (a much slower dance than the rhumba or samba), it uses fragments “heard and recorded by the composer during several visits to Cuba… According to the composer, Danzon Cubano is in no sense intended to be an authentic danzon, but only an American tourist’s impression of an absorbing Cuban dance form.” The orchestral transcription was first published in 1949.
Price stamp to front wrapper. A fine inscribed copy.