[Bruno Walter, German conductor, pianist and composer.] Autograph Signature on the cover of the programme for his Royal Command Performance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica. The programme is 12mo, and consists of eight printed pages, stapled into covers printed in black on shiny paper, with a lion rampant on the front printed in red. The sprawling signature 'Bruno Walter' is written diagonally in the top-left quarter of the front cover. In good condition, lightly aged, but with the back cover damaged by removal from mount. Central vertical fold. The first of the eight internal pages states announces: ‘Usher Hall / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor / BRUNO WALTER / Monday 8th and Tuesday, 9th September 1947 / at 7.30 p.m.’ The other seven pages consist of a discussion by ‘H. G.’, with musical phrases in notation, of the three pieces to be performed: Vaughan Williams’ ‘Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis’, and Beethoven’s sixth and seventh symphonies. Loosely inserted is a slip of blue paper, on which is printed: 'ROYAL COMMAND PERFORMANCE / The audience is requested to remain seated until Her Majesty the Queen and the Princess Margaret have left the Royal Box.