Chabrier, Emmanuel and Franz Liszt.

Chabrier. Fine large autograph musical quotation from Gwendoline, signed and inscribed ("Gwendoline. Introduction du 1er Acte Emmanuel Chabrier"), on an album-leaf bearing a printed portrait of the composer by R. Kastor, 1 page, large 4to (c.30.5 x 24.8cms), watermarked [18]92--Liszt, Cabinet-style photograph signed ("F.Liszt"), on and below the image, [c.16.5 x 10.5cms, by Kuntzemüller of Baden Baden, [May 1880], slight dust-marking--Gounod, Photograph signed and inscribed on the image ("à ma chère Emilie Roche...Londres et Birmingham. 28 aout/82 Ch. Gounod, P.S."), 16.3 x 10.8cms, by Burgoyne of Birmingham, a few stains on the image--César Cui, Cabinet-style photograph signed and inscribed ("C. Cui"), with an autograph quotation from the song "Dans le pays on les appelait les Songeants", 29 February 1892, c.17 x 10.5cms, by Shapiro of St Petersburg; and items by Taneyev and Rebikov

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The photograph of Liszt was taken in May 1880. See Ernst Burger, Franz Liszt in der Photographie seiner Zeit, 260 Portraits (2003), no.138.