About This Print
This song sheet, Senow No. 623, was issued in 1925 by the music publisher Senow Ongaku Shuppansha. The artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) designed around 280-300 covers for Senow, this one being for the song Album Leaf by the Russian composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin(e) (1872-1915.) This particular cover design was used on a number of different Senow song sheets of music scores for the violin1, one of which, Senow NO. 564 "Spanish Dance," is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2007.982.Senoo (Senow) Kōjirō
Senoo Kōjirō 妹尾幸次郎 (1891-1961), also known as Senoo Kōyō 妹尾幸陽, the head of Senow Ongaku Shuppansha, was a publisher of musical scores and also a performance manager for many Western artists performing in Japan. He was the President of Yogaku Kensei Sha (The Association for the Study of Occidental Music), which he established in 1919. The Society had a membership 1,200 in the 1930s. Its purpose was to study and spread Occidental music.2
1 Takehisa Yumeji, Nozomi Naoi, et. al., Brill, 2015, p. 59.
2 The Japan Year Book Volume 1, Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, 1933, p. 1367.
Song Sheet Contents
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Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #562 |
| Title/Description | "Album-Leaf" by Alexander Scriabin (Song sheet No. 623) セノオバイオリン楽譜 No.623 断片 スクリアビン作曲 |
| Series | n/a |
| Artist | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) |
| Signature | unsigned |
| Seal | not sealed |
| Publication Date | February 1925 |
| Publisher | Senow Ongaku Shuppansha (Kojiro Senow) ("Senow" also seen spelled as "Senoo" and "Senoh") |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - minor toning |
| Genre | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm) |
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4/20/2021
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