MUSIC. Album of photographs by LIPNITZKI with 26 P.A.S. musicales, 1932; 41 photographs (17 x 12 cm), vintage silver prints, dry-stamped by the photographer, mounted on strong paper sheets (33 x 24 cm), each preceded by a serpente with the musician's name inscribed in Indian ink; the whole bound in a large in-4 volume (33.5 x 29 cm), in tinted fawn calf, decorated with wavy shapes on the boards, mosaicked on one edge with wide bands of black box and brown morocco decoration imitating ironwork motifs, repeated on the spine, crowned figure E stamped in silver at the bottom of the upper board. wide black box mosaic inner frame in the corners, painted silk lining and endpapers depicting landscapes with birds (signed AC), blue paper counter-guards, silver edges (signed Anita Conti 1931). Precious album by Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, a passionate music lover. Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, née Wittelsbach (1876-1965), widow of Albert I of Belgium, was a fervent music lover. A violinist herself, in 1937 she founded the prestigious music competition that bears her name. The album opens with a title page written in capital letters: Quelques musiciens vus par Lipnitski 109 Faubourg St Honoré Paris. Ukrainian-born Boris LIPNITZKI (1887-1971) was a renowned photographer in the arts and entertainment world of the 1930s. 26 musical quotations and dedications accompany the photographs, by Louis AUBERT (4 bars from his Sonate pour piano et violon), Conrad BECK (3 bars from his Concerto pour quatuor à cordes), Louis BEYDTS (6 bars on the words Laissons ce divin Messager Pousser, pousser l'escarpolette ), Alfred CORTOT (dedication: En hommage à Sa Majesté la Reine des Belges, qui règne en Souveraine sur le cœur des Français ), Paul DUKAS (3 bars from Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, on 2 staves: vocals and accompaniment, with words: Les cinq filles d'Orlamonde (La fée noire est morte) ), Pierre-Octave FERROUD (4 bars for oboe), Tibor HARSANYI (4 bars), Arthur HOÉRÉE (4 bars from the Chanson de son Septuor with words: Le Bonheur est dans le pré, cours-y vite, cours-y vite ), Arthur HONEGGER (3 bars from Antigone), Arthur HONEGGER (with the Quatuor de Bruxelles, 2 bars from his string quartet), Jacques IBERT (3 bars Andante), Wanda LANDOWSKA (aria and lyrics from Podolanka, Polish folk song), Igor MARKEVITCH (5 bars from his Sérénade), Bohuslav MARTINU (5 bars from Les Rondes), Marcel MIHALOVICI (3 bars), Darius MILHAUD (2 bars), Nicolas NABOKOV (4 bars from his Symphonie lyrique), Francis POULENC (4 bars from the Sextet), Maurice RAVEL (3 bars from the Sonata for piano and violin), Jean RIVIER (3 bars from his Symphony in D major), ROLAND-MANUEL (3 bars from his Concerto for harpsichord and instruments), Guy ROPARTZ (4 bars from his 1st Sonata for violin and piano), Albert ROUSSEL (4 bars from Psalm LXXX), Florent SCHMITT (2 bars from his last symphony), Igor STRAWINSKY (initial theme from The Rite of Spring, dated Paris 25.I.1932), Alexandre TANSMAN (2 bars from his Symphonie concertante). Photographs: Ernest Ansermet, Georges Auric, Lucien Capet, Pablo Casals, Alfredo Casella, Désiré Defauw, Marcel Delannoy, Serge de Diaghilev (group photo with Benois, Grigoriev, Karsavina, Lifar, Nijinsky), Manuel de Falla, Jascha Heifetz, Charles Houdret, Bronislaw Hubermann, Vincent d'Indy, Serge Prokofiev, Henri Sauguet. Remarkable Art Deco binding by Anita CONTI (1899-1997), a bookbinder of Armenian origin (she exhibited her bindings at the Salon d'Automne from 1932 to 1935), who became France's first female oceanographer. Binding boards and hinges a little rubbed.