# - Violinists and violoncellists.

[Jean-Pierre] Duport (to a publisher, requesting the printing of one hundred word-books for a work by Metastasio, which he has been asked to have performed, 2 pages, Potsdam, 7 April 1797),  Ferdinand David (2 fine letters, to Vieuxtemps, one about the last movement of Beethoven's String Quartet Op.135, with 10 musical examples, 8 pages in all, 1862-1865), Vieuxtemps (autograph letter about Beethoven's Op.135, apparently replying to David, and an autograph quotation from the Violin Concerto in A minor, [Op.37], 1862-1863), Wieniawski (letter and quotation), B. Romberg (2 pages, to Peters), A. Romberg (2 pages, to Dotzauer), Suggia, Ysaye (letter and quotation), Molique (2), Popper (quotation), Reményi, Norman-Neruda, Hauser, Dancla, Léonard (3), Lotto (autograph musical quotation), Lasserre, Ella, Nachez (quotation), Sivori (2 quotations), with a clipped signature of F.A. Kummer and a card signed and dated by Kubelik



over 30 items in all, various sizes, Potsdam, Hamburg and elsewhere, mostly nineteenth century, where indicated, a few items laid down

From the William Reeves Collection

Although signed only "Duport", the first item is almost certainly by the famous eighteenth-century violoncellist Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818), rather than his younger brother Jean-Louis. The elder Duport supervised music at the court of Friedrich William II in Berlin from 1787 until 1806.  Mozart composed a set of variations K.573 on one of Duport's minuets and Beethoven composed for him his Cello Sonatas, op.5.