Two folio albums of letters and manuscripts by Clara Schumann, Parry, Lind, Viardot, Spohr, Bülow and others, C19

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Two large folio albums containing autograph letters and manuscripts by Spohr, Clara Schumann, Bülow, Joachim, Parry, Lind, Viardot and others, second half of the C19

assembled by Mrs Adela Wodehouse (née Bagot), including letters by Spohr (about performances of his chamber music, reporting the composition of his double quartet in G minor, a Sextet and his 31st string quartet, 3 pages, 4to, 1849), Clara and Eugenie Schumann (3, about meeting Adela, 1873-1893), Hans von Bülow (2, one a quotation with fingering from Chopin's Nocturne op.37, no.2, 1873-1874), Hubert Parry (praising the talent and self-confidence of Ethel Smyth, 8 pages, 1881), Joseph Joachim (2, to George Grove and Miss Dickens, thanking her for a portrait of Charles Dickens), Julius Benedict, Nina Grieg, Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot, Emma Albani, Blanche Marchesi, Julius Stockhausen, Manns, Dohnányi, Grove (about six photographic facsimiles included in the album), Fanny Davies (2), Agnes Zimmermann (4), H.E. Krehbiel, Sterndale Bennett, Cowen, Henschel, Dolmetsch, Tovey, Jaques-Dalcroze and others; together with music by Raff (orchestral sketchleaf, 1881), Wilhelmi, Marie Krebs and Charles Hallé and many early photographs and portraits (laid down)

over 60 items, in 2 volumes, folio (c.36.5 x 26.5cm), a few letters laid down, others in autograph envelopes tipped in (the letters loosely inserted), half calf, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cassel, Bourgival and Worthing, c. 1849-1911 where dated, binding very worn

These albums contain letters and manuscripts by many of the leading figures in nineteenth-century music including detailed letters by Spohr and Parry, and music by Bülow and Raff. Parry's enthusiasm and characterisation of Ethel Smyth is particularly notable (for more on Smyth see lot 11). Many of the letters are addressed to Adela Bagot (1854-1921), a contributor to the first edition of George Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1880), and include items from Grove himself. Adela was one of the many English music lovers who became acquainted with Clara Schumann during her concert tours here. She was the daughter of the Reverend Charles Walter Bagot, Chancellor of Bath and Wells, and in 1876 married Edmond Wodehouse, Liberal MP for Bath from 1880 until 1906.

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