Vintage Composers at Piano

A collection of historical images showing composers seated at pianos, showcasing vintage attire and classic instruments in black and white.

Cole Porter (1892-1964) American Composer and Lyricist

Cole Porter (1892-1964) American Composer and Lyricist

Claudio Arrau. January 01, 1941. (Photo by Lucien Aigner, Stadler Photographing Co., Inc.).

MIKLOS ROZSA.

Louis armstrong

Old Music Master. Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter, film actor, singer and pianist, tunes up at the Savoy hotel, London, today (Wednesday)for his short variety tour of Britain. Hoagy, whose hot tunes include Stardust, old music master, Lazy Bones, opens at the Liverpool empire on June 20. His last appearance in Britain was as the London Palladium four years. June 15, 1955. (Photo by Reuterphotos)

Vladimir Horowitz

Portrait of man. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Anefo photo collection. Performance Arthur Rubinstein in Concertgebouw. February 13, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Mischa Elman with violin

George Gershwin, Composer (1898-1937)

Jos. Hofmann

Harlan

Poll photo collection. Portraits. Portrait of cellist del canho. January 1, 1932

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf: HR. Angehent pianist opera singer. November 15, 1961

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich 1927-2007

Anefo photo collection. Opera singer Jules Moes will be 80 years of age. November 3, 1959

12/31/1929. Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947).

12/31/1926. George Gershwin photographed in the 1920s.

El músico Bob Wills. 1941.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf: HR. Angehent pianist opera singer. November 15, 1961

'Enrico Caruso - Italy's Famous Tenor at the Piano', c1925. Artist: Unknown.

Heifetz

Lifetermer's Song Wins Him Furlough -- Frank M. Grandstaff tries out a cantata he composed about Big Spring, Texas, while at the Tennessee prison. Serving a life term as an habitual criminal, he was granted temporary release by Gov. Gordon Browning to hear it sung at a Big Spring centennial celebration Oct. 2. January 1, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

BORIS KARLOFF in THE WALKING DEAD (1936), directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ.

Zimbalist

Portrait of Lester Young, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946.

H. Lazaro

Victor

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer, Gerry Mulligan.

Eddy Brown, half-length portrait, seated, holding his violin

British Musicians:Lennox Randal Berkeley, composer composition professor at the Royal academy of music, London. December 29, 1954. (Photo by Peter Abbey, Camera Press).

Composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Anonymous

El cornetista y trompetista norteamericano Muggsy Spanier.

Heifetz

March 1969. José Cubiles, for many years the most popular pianist among Spanish fans.

Prokofieff i.e. Prokofiev

J.B. Wells

Caruso.

Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist. March 21, 1947.

George Gershwin, Anonymous

Claudio Arrau - Master Chilean pianist. June 01, 1947.

Casals

Liberace, portrait

Anefo photo collection. Theo van der Bijl 16 November next 50 years of conductor. November 12, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Theo van der Bijl 16 November next 50 years of conductor. November 12, 1962

Portret van violist Jascha Heifetz; Jascha Heifetz.

El director de orquesta y compositor alemán Bruno Walter.

Casals

Portrait of the violinist David Oistrakh (1908-1974) by Anonymous /Private Collection/1960s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Charles "Buddy" Gilmore , 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedys (JBK) Musical Program for Youth. Korean pianist, Tong-il Han, plays onstage in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.; Mr. Han performed as part of the fifth installment of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedys Musical Programs for Youth by Youth. Mrs. Kennedy held the event for the children of ambassadors, members of Cabinet, and State Department officials living in Washington, D.C.

Cole Porter. Waldorf Towers home. The last photo made of him, in 1964.

Anefo photo collection. Performance Arthur Rubinstein in Concertgebouw. February 13, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Yehudi Menuhin.

El compositor Aaron Copland y el director de orquesta Antal Doráti.

Pablo Casals

A. Reiss

Soviet Musicians: David Oistrakh, Violinist Mr. Oistrakh will be visiting England with a Soviet cultural delegation during November, 1954, the delegation, which has been organized by the British-Soviet Friendship Society, will visit London, Manchester, Oxford, Derby Liverpool, Plymouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Burnley, Chatham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leicester, Huddersfield, Bolton, Brighton, Coventry, and Cardiff. November 04, 1954. (Photo by Camera Press).

C. Whitehill

Igor Stravinsky. 23 October 1961.

Franz von Vecsey (1893-1935), Photo studio E. Bieber

Yehudi Menuhin.

Ernesto Beruman i.e. Berumen

Pablo Casals

Anefo photo collection. Assignment Telegraaf: HR. Angehent pianist opera singer. November 15, 1961

With a Photograph of Sir Malcolm Sargent to encourage her, Dorothy practices hours each day, receives frequent complaints from neighbors about making too much noise. A piano for £10, a photo of Sir Malcolm for inspiration a mews flat for style - and you're going places in London. December 16, 1955. (Photo by A.G.S.U.P Picture).

Sergi Tanejew i.e. Taneyev

New York, New York, January, 1961 Leonard Bernstein, composer, pianist, conductor and noted music director of the New York Philharmonic.

Karlsson, Karskär. Photo 1943. Karlsson, Karskär. Foto 1943.

Lester Young, 1944.

L. Rothier

A photograph of Humphrey Lyttelton (1921-2008) an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family. Dated 20th century

Salvatore accardo, leonardo leonardi, 1977

Gogorza

Alfredo Campoli. May 01, 1950.

MICKEY ROONEY.

Woody Herman, American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

Louis Armstrong, 1968.

04/18/1936. Francisco Alonso.

Roberto benzi

H. Lazaro

JOAN CRAWFORD. 1932.

Yehudi Menuhin.

George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin 1935

Portrait of Gaetano Braga (1829-1907), Italian composer and cellist, photograph, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIV, No 48, December 1, 1907.

Spain: c. 1950 A portrait of virtuoso classical guitarist Andres Segovia.

Portrait van violist Jascha Heifetz, Anonymous, 1900 - 1938 photograph unknown photographic support gelatin silver print historical persons. portrait of a musician

Composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Anonymous

A photograph of Clyde Barrow. Clyde Chestnut Barrow (1909-1934) an American criminal who travelled around the Central United States with Bonnie Parker and their gang during the Great Depression.

MASCAGNI , PIETRO. COMPOSITOR ITALIANO. 1836 - 1945. REPRODUCCION FOTO.

***** Back From American Triumph -- The 50,000 dollar touch. Miss Moura Lympany at the Piano in the Savoy Hotel, London today (Wed). Miss Moura Lympany, the English Pianist, is back from the U.S.A. where she received one of the greatest ovations ever accorded ***** an international artiste, being referred to as "the female Horewitz" and "the pianist with the 50,000 dollar hands." After recitals in London and the Provinces she will go on a European tour, returning for a final London Performance at the and of March before another and even more extensive tour of Americas *****. December 29, 1949.

Jimmy Fontana, 60s.

Kreisler

Portrait of violinist bromshaw huberman. .

Sir Granville Bantock. December 19, 1938.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger, notes from the opera Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini, 1858 1924, Italian composer, digitally edited according to a photograph by Wilhelm Willinger, notes from the opera Madame Butterfly Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660464

Mischa Elman with violin

Gianandrea gavazzeni. 1968.

Josef Szigeti, "The Greatest Living violinist". (Photo by Daily Telegraph). January 01, 1932.

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