[Rarebooks] FS: 1923 Laura Gilpin Photo of American Composer Frederick Jacobi

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

American Classical Music Composer Frederick Jacobi 1923 Portrait Photo  
by Laura Gilpin

Written on the back in pen- “Frederick Jacobi photograph by Laura  
Gilpin Colo. Springs, Colo. 1923”.

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) was an American photographer, known for her  
photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo,  
and Southwestern landscapes. Gilpin began taking photographs as a  
child in Colorado and formally studied photography in New York from  
1916 to 1917 before returning to her home in Colorado to begin her  
career as a professional photographer. Gilpin is considered to be one  
of the great platinum printing photographers, and many of her platinum  
prints are now in museums around the world” [Wikipedia].

“Frederick Jacobi (1891-1952) was a Jewish-American composer and  
teacher. His works include symphonies, concerti, chamber music, works  
for solo piano and for solo organ, lieder, and one opera. He taught at  
Juilliard School of Music from 1936 to 1950. He also served as the  
director of the American section of the International Society for  
Contemporary Music and was a founding member of the League of  
Composers. Jacobi is best remembered as a composer of works with  
Judaic themes [and] although Jacobi's secular work is performed only  
infrequently today, his liturgical works continue to receive  
performances in synagogues. Jacobi's work largely rejects the  
polytonality and atonality that was popular with the avant-garde  
composers of his time. Instead he finds his influence in the classical  
and romantic periods. Baltimore Sun critic, Florestan Croche,  
described Jacobi's style as having "a sense of the drama which is  
always aristocratic, introspective, and personal, and never allowed to  
become theatrical. Harmonically ... his is a language of extreme  
chromaticism, one, however, which always appears to be tonally  
oriented.” He died on October 24, 1952 in New York City of heart  
failure”[Wikipedia].

Photo. 8x10. Small creasing, light wear, minor soil.  $400

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