Mephisto Dance for Piano/Pianoforte (four hands) rare sheet music, S.G. Cook 1893 Lewis Morrison ~ Mephistopheles

Title: [sheet music] Mephisto Dance for Pianoforte (four hands)

Author: S. G. Cook

Description: Large-format sheet music. Front cover shows a red-and-black illustration of Lewis Morrison dressed as ''Mephisto.'' Slight wear and faint soiling. Music-seller rubber stamp on first leaf, else unmarked. 7, [1] pags. 14 x 10.5 inches. [White-Smith Music Publishing Company serial number 9019-6.]

A rare copy of ''Mephisto Dance,'' a piano piece for four-hands, dedicated by the composer to ''the ideal 'Mephisto,''' Mr. Lewis Morrison (1844-1906), a Jamaican-born stage actor, who was best known for his portrayal of Mephistopheles in his own production of Faust, which he performed from 1885 to 1906.

No copies of this edition noted on OCLC (though two copies of the British edition, published by Sheard, are noted at the British Library and the National Library of Scotland).

Binding: Sheet Music
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: White-Smith Music Pub. Co.
Place: Boston. New York. Chicago
Year: 1893

Keywords: Lewis Morrison, Mephistopheles,