1942 Masterworks M-227 Beethoven's No. 9 Alex Steinweiss Rare Cover Art 📻 🎶 For Sale

Artist: Ludwig van Beethoven / Felix Weingartner (Conductor)

Title: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 ("Choral")

Format: Record / Box Set (78 RPM)Record

Label: Columbia Masterworks

Release Title: Set M-227 (or MM-227)

Release Year: Circa 1935–1942

Speed: 78 RPM

Record Size: 12"

Cover Design: Alex Steinweiss Legendary Cover art Creator

Alex Steinweiss designed and released this specific graphic cover for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Set M-227) in 1942. While the musical recording itself was originally captured in Vienna back in 1935, Columbia Records initially sold it packaged in their standard, unadorned generic paper slips. Once Steinweiss's illustrated packaging model proved to be an overwhelming commercial success in the early 1940s, Columbia had him systematically go back through their core catalog of Masterworks classics to completely redesign and re-release their presentation binders with his signature modernist art styles.

Set has 8 Shellac 78 records this is missing one and only has 7.