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SERGEI RACHMANINOV. From the slow movement Piano Concerto no.2, Op.18, (Moscow, 17 November 1903)--NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV. Five bars from Scheherazade--SIBELIUS, JEAN. Four bars from 'The Swan of Tuonela' (Legends, Op.22 no.2)--GIACOMO PUCCINI. Two bars from La Bohème--RICHARD STRAUSS. Two bars of the opening theme from the first movement of Ein Heldenleben, Op.40--ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV. Five bars from his Symphony no. 7--CÉSAR CUI. 3 bars from the 20 Poèmes de Jean Richepin, (St. Petersburg, 25 December 1903)--Joseph Joachim. Five bars from Bach's Partita no.2 in D minor, BWV 1004; with other musical quotations signed by MASSENET, Scharwenka, Stephen Heller, Melba, Berta Morena, Lamond, Heifetz, Kreisler, Sarasate, Guilmant, Louis Diemer, Edward German, Parry, Prout, Rheinberger, Brodsky, d'Indy, d'Albert, Liadov, Wieniawski, Auer, Weingartner, Philippe Rüfer, Damrosch, Reinecke, Jan Kubelík, Grainger, Ysaye, Riemann, Pauline Viardot, Oskar Merikanto, Chaminard, Moszkowski (five bars from his Caprice espagnol, Paris, December 1903), Saint-Saëns (four bars from his Second Symphony), Humperdinck, Taneyev, Leschetizky, Somervell, Paderewski (signed photographic portrait), Casals, Homer N. Bartlett, and others

over 170 entries in a printed calendar (Musical Messages for Every Day in the Year. A Musician's Birthday Book, 1897), the quotations mostly either entered or written on pre-ruled slips of paper and mounted on the pages of the calendar, some items loose, one visiting card signed, with a loose photographic image of Pachmann signed, also including an autograph letter signed by Emil Sauer, with some unused slips of singly-ruled paper, calf gilt, Moscow, St. Petersburg and elsewhere, mostly first decade of the twentieth century, binding worn but sound

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In this attractive and unusual collection, many of the autograph musical quotations are contained on similar pre-ruled slips of paper and mounted in the volume - a printed calendar containing a page for each day of the year - under the birthday of each particular composer. The Rachmaninov quotation is pasted in under the date of 2 April, that of Rimsky-Korsakov on 12 May. The collector of the quotations and the former owner of the volume was one Mary Greenshields of Spuyten Duyvil, New York.