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MUSIC – RICHARD STRAUSS
Collection of autograph letters including Richard Strauss (writing with Paula about hotels in Switzerland in 1947), Clara Schumann, Pietro Mascagni, & others

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MUSIC – RICHARD STRAUSS

Collection of autograph letters including Richard Strauss (writing with Paula about hotels in Switzerland in 1947), Clara Schumann, Pietro Mascagni (autograph musical quotation from L'Amico Fritz), Cosima Wagner (photograph signed), Franz Lehar (two signed scores), Gaspare Spontini (to the impresario Domenio Barbaja), Giovanni Paccini (referring to the premiere of his opera Furio Camillo (1840), Daniel Auber, Julius Benedict, Wagner's assistant Kark Klindworth ("...Berlioz's Harold in too difficult and too long..."), Fyodor Shalyapin (signed photograph), Jenny Lind, Eliodoro Bianchi, Angelica Catalani (theatre receipt), Giulia Grisi, Alexander Girardi, and others; together with a cancelled ticket for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, with an engraving after Stothard, for 31 May 1792

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