Gunther Schuller Autograph

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925 – June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. More about Gunther Schuller

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Current items with a signature of Gunther Schuller

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thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER - AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION SIGNED$700.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER - INSCRIBED MUSICAL QUOTATION ON PHOTO SIGNED$600.00logo
Schuller was born in Queens, New York City, the son of German parents Elsie (Bernartz) and Arthur E. Schuller, a violinist with the New York Philharmonic. He studied at the Saint Thomas Choir School and became an accomplished French horn player and flute player. At age 15, he was already playing horn professionally with the American Ballet Theatre (1943) followed by an appointment as principal hornist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (1943–45), and then the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, where he stayed until 1959. During his youth, he attended the Precollege Division at the Manhattan School of Music, later going on to teach at the school. But, already a high school dropout because he wanted to play professionally, Schuller never obtained a degree from any institution. He began his career in jazz by recording as a horn player with Miles Davis (1949–50).

In 1955, Schuller and jazz pianist John Lewis founded the Modern Jazz Society, which gave its first concert at Town Hall, New York, the same year and later became known as the Jazz and Classical Music Society. While lecturing at Brandeis University in 1957, he coined the term "Third Stream" to describe music that combines classical and jazz techniques. He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation (1957, for jazz ensemble), Concertino (1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra), Abstraction (1959, for nine instruments), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (1960, for 13 instruments) utilizing Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. In 1966, he composed the opera The Visitation. He also orchestrated Scott Joplin's only known surviving opera Treemonisha for the Houston Grand Opera's premiere production of this work in 1975. Read even more about Gunther Schuller at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Gunther Schuller

The most expensive item with a signature of Gunther Schuller (GUNTHER SCHULLER, composer, HAND SIGNED PAPERBOUND BOOK) was sold in January 2011 for $29.00 while the cheapest item (FAMED COMPOSER GUNTHER SCHULLER AUTOGRAPH & MORE ON BRAZIL NOTE > NO RESERVE) found a new owner for $9.99 in September 2021. The month with the most items sold (3) was December 2015 with an average selling price of $15.00 for an autographed item of Gunther Schuller. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2011 with $29.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $10.00 was June 2011. In average, an autographed item from Gunther Schuller is worth $15.00.

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thumbnailGunther Schuller Jazz musician, composer and conductor Signed Photo 8 x 10$25.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED DUO-TONE 5X7 PHOTO$12.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED GLOSSY B&W 8X10 PHOTO$15.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED 8x10 PHOTO $15.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED COLOR PHOTO$15.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED COLOR PHOTO$15.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED COLOR PHOTO$15.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED MEMOIR, PB $20.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED PB BOOK$20.00logo
thumbnailGUNTHER SCHULLER, pulitzer prize composer, AUTHENTIC HAND WRITTEN/SIGNED LETTER$20.00logo