1925 JOHN PHILIP SOUSA (1854-1932). Autograph Musical Quotation, Several Bars from "The Stars and Stripes Forever," Signed "John Philip Sousa" and Dated, Matted with a Theodore Presser Co. Sheet Music Cover Published c. 1930, Framed, Choice Very Fine.
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA (1854-1932) Signed Autograph Musical Quotation, with Several Bars from "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Superbly Signed "John Philip Sousa" and Dated 1925, matted with a Theodore Presser Co. Sheet Music Cover of the same title, published c. 1930, Framed, Choice Very Fine. This outstanding vivid Handwritten Dated 1925. This Autograph Musical Quotation is magnificently signed in bold brown ink “John Philip Sousa / 1925”. measuring 3.75 x 2.25 inches, matted together with a Theodore Presser Co. sheet music cover measuring 7.75 x 10.25 inches, double matted, the whole presentation framed under special UV Plexiglas to fully 18.5 x 12.75 inches.

The autograph sheet bears a several-bar musical quotation notated in E-flat major, followed below by the title, "The Stars and Stripes Forever," in quotation marks, and signed "John Philip Sousa" with the date "1925" beneath. The accompanying sheet music cover, printed for "The Stars and Stripes Forever! March, By John Philip Sousa" and bearing a portrait of Sousa in his naval band uniform, was issued by the Theodore Presser Co. under its "John Church Division" imprint having a minor light round waterstain at lower left. The cover dates to 1930 or later, since Presser did not acquire Sousa's original publisher, the John Church Company, until that year, five years after the autograph was signed and dated. Ready to hang on display.
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" was composed by Sousa in 1896 and remains the best-known march in American history, a piece Sousa himself regarded as his finest work and which Congress designated the official National March of the United States in 1987.

Sousa was regularly asked by admirers to inscribe a few bars of its melody alongside his signature, making surviving musical quotations from his most famous composition among the most desirable examples of his autograph.