Meyerbeer, Giacomo

MEYERBEER. five letters about Weber's Die drei Pintos, Jenny Lind, the opera in Vienna, his doctorate from the University of Jena, enclosing a lithograph portrait of himself [included here], 10 pages, plus blanks, various sizes, blind-stamped monogram, one integral autograph address panel (dated '1842'), some foxing mainly to edges, and nineteenth-century newspaper cuttings, Berlin and elsewhere, 1850-1861--LORTZING, ALBERT. Fine autograph letter signed ("Albert Lortzing") to the Director of the Dresden Opera House, von Lüttichau, demanding settlement of the fee for his opera Undine and suggesting staging his new opera Rolands Knappen instead (" ...Auch würde ich - im Falle sich Eure Excellenz damit einverstanden erklärten - gern zu einem Austausche bereit sein, wenn Eure Excellenz vielleicht verzögen, an Statt der Undine - meine neueste Oper Rolands-Knappen in Scene zu setzen..."), 2 pages, 4to, annotated by the recipient, Leipzig, 19 December 1849-- LOEWE, CARL. Two autograph letters signed, to Heinrich Schlesinger, acknowledging payment for Die Heilung des Blindgebornen, 2 pages, 8vo, Stettin, 17, September 1860 and 9 February 1861--FLOTOW, FRIEDRICH VON. Autograph letter signed ("Fr. v Flotow"), 2 pages, 8vo, annotated by the recipient, Schwerin, 2 May 1858, some discolouration to first page

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