Russian émigré sheet music editions: Salome. Foks-trot [Foxtrot Salome]. Music by Stolz, lyrics by Liudmila Tal'.
[Krsko, Slovenia]: Izdatel'stvo "Severnaia lira", ca. 1925. Octavo (24 x 16 cm). Single folded sheet with laid-in half sheet; attractive pictorial wrapper, unsigned. Publisher's catalog to p. 6. Somewhat toned to edges; small chips to upper left and lower right corners. Item #P003700
Single issue from this series of ephemeral Russian sheet music publications issued by an undocumented publisher of art songs, waltzes, arias, and other popular music genres, presumably published in the mid-1920s. Though russo- and francophone in orientation, “Severnaia lira” was apparently based in Slovenia (and possibly the publishing project of famous Russian pianist and composer Oscar Strock). The music represented ranged from Russian and Ukrainian folk tunes, to chansons and romances, to fashionable European dances, such as a “Kokain-Shimmy-fox mysterieux” and the “Tango-Maxixe.” Over 3000 separate editions were published in the series, this issue is no. 3027. With an attractive wrapper illustration.
KVK, OCLC shows scattered issues of this series at the University of Illinois only. Not at the Russian State or National Library.
Price: €100.00