German and Austrian composers.

HUMPERDINCK, ENGELBERT. Four autograph letters signed ("EHumperdinck"), to the critic Walter Paetow, & to Wilhelm Kienzl, about the main roles in Königskinder, and thanking Paetow for a kind review of Bübchens Weihnachtstraum, 8 pages, 2 autograph envelopes, later pencil annotations, Berlin and Frankfurt, 1895-1920, some light spotting to one letter; together with a card by Scheffel to Paetow--LEHAR, FRANZ. Three autograph letters signed ("LehárFr"), to Hofrat C. René, about Das Fürstenkind, and his operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg, noting that it could turn out disastrously, mentioning the director Karczag and the singers Ligety, Pallenburg, Treumann and others, 5 pages, oblong 8vo and 4to, 2 on cards, Bad Ischl and Vienna, 8 April & 5 July 1915; together with: an autograph letter signed by Leo Blech [1902]--JOACHIM, JOSEPH. Autograph musical quotation from Violin Concerto No.2, signed and inscribed ("Romanze aus dem Concert in Ungarischer Weise...Zur Erinnerung an Joseph Joachim"), the first four bars of the main violin solo theme, 1 page, oblong 8vo, Berlin, 9 January 1893; together with: two autograph letters signed ("JosephJoachim"), 5 pages, one autograph envelope, [Berlin,] 1884-1898, creasing and rust-stain to visiting cards and envelope--STRAUS, OSCAR. Autograph musical quotation from Ein Walzertraum, signed & inscribed to Tristan Bernard, 1 page, 4to, on the reverse of a typed menu, Paris, 14 February 1937 

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