Beschreibung:

Benedict, Sir Julius. THE ALBUM OF JULIUS BENEDICT including autograph letters signed by Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 pages, Berlin, 2 March 1853, declining an invitation, made by Benedict on behalf of the directors of the Philharmonic Society, to bring before the public an unperformed work of Mendelssohn, and discussing other matters, including her health, children and the 'hard trials' which she endures only with difficulty), together with letters by Marschner (2 pages, 12 July 1857), Simon Sechter (1 page, Vienna, 30 March 1846, sending him his pupil, Herr Seebold), Staudigl, Vincent Wallace, Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (2 pages, Dresden, 23 February 1846, about Vieuxtemps), Antonio Joly, Randegger, J.F. Castelli, Earl of Westmorland (4 pages, 12 December 1844, about Meyerbeer), Ernst, Romberg, Silcher; with an unsigned draft of a letter by Moritz Hauptmann and a letter signed by Berlioz and other members of the committee of the Grande Société Philharmonique de Paris (1 page, 2 February 1850, offering Benedict honorary membership) and a 4-page copy of extracts from Mendelssohn's letter to Carl Klingemann of 26 December 1830/ 2 January 1831 in the hand of Sophie Klingemann, c.40 items in all, various sizes, loose in the album, a collection of nineteenth-century newspaper cuttings concerning Benedict, and two photographic portraits of Jan Kubelík and Wagner, gilt initials to upper cover ("J.B."), green roan gilt, Berlin, Vienna, Dresden and elsewhere, mostly 1830s-1860s