Composers, singers and musicians.

including by Berlioz (2; one a fragment about Les Troyens and his biography, 2 pages, no place or date, in two halves, repaired; the other to Engel, 1 page, Paris, 18/19 May, [1860?]), Paër (2), Johann Strauss the younger (mentioning Der Zigeunerbaron, 4 pages, no place or date [after 1885]), Boito (2; and a 7-bar autograph musical quotation from Mefistofele), Wagner (Joanna, soprano, niece of Richard Wagner, 1826-1894, autograph quotation from Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", 1 page, 29 September 1854), Julius Stockhausen, Sims Reeves, George Henschel, Maurel, Melba, Norman O'Neill, Edward Lloyd, Henry Russell, Otto Goldschmidt (2), Irving (letter signed), Laporte (about the King's Theatre), Tamburini, Gauntlett, Louisa Pyne, Henry Phillips (17, many written to the critic C.L. Gruneisen, and others to Henry Littleton of Novello's), Marcello (autograph signature on part of an official document from a board of examiners, no place or date, [Venice, 1714-1715]), c.80 items, various sizes, mostly nineteenth century

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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