Composers and musicians. FINE COLLECTION OF OVER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PRINTED VISITING CARDS, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MAJOR OPERA COMPOSERS AND SINGERS, INCLUDING BY BIZET, VERDI, PUCCINI, RICHARD STRAUSS AND MANY OTHERS many items inscribed on both sides, comprising short letters signed, others inscribed but unsigned, including the printed cards of 1) Italian opera composers and conductors: VERDI ("Auguri"), and Giuseppina Verdi (with autograph envelope), PUCCINI ("ossequi…"), MASCAGNI ("per ringrazione vivamente e con saluti..."), Carlos Gomes, Arrigo Boito, Francesco Cilèa, Alberto Franchetti, Carlo Pedrotti (to Martucci), Pietro Platania (to Tamburini), Héctor Panizza, Leopoldo Mugnone, Mancinelli, and Vittorio Gui; 2) French composers: BIZET, Lecocq (with an autograph musical quotation from Les cent vierges), GOUNOD, Massenet, Thomas, Charpentier, Dukas, Delibes, Massé, Messager, d’Indy, Humperdinck (with autograph envelope), Reynaldo Hahn, Alfred Bruneau, Auric, Maurice Emmanuel, André Cluytens and others; 3) German musicians: RICHARD STRAUSS (a message to a printer in 1895), Max Bruch, Goldmark, Lehár, Eduard Hanslick (1860) and Weingartner (a letter about Levi); 4) opera singers: JENNY LIND (inviting a friend to attend La sonnambula), Pauline VIARDOT (a letter to a pupil), Adelina PATTI (2), Lotte LEHMANN, Christine Nilsson, Lillian Nordica, Pauline Lucca, Georg Henschel, Jean-Baptiste Faure, Feodor CHALIAPIN Enrico CARUSO Nelli MELBA, Rose Caron, Victor Capoul, Rosa PONSELLE, Clara Novello, Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich, Aureliano Pertile, Maria Olszewska, Blanche Marchesi, Maria Jeritza, Rosa Raisa, Augusta Holmes, Desirée Artôt, Marietta Albani, Francesco d’Andrade, Cesare Valletti, Georges Thill, Joan Sutherland, Tito Schipa, Graziella Sciutti, Maria Caniglia, Felia Litvinne, Geraldine Farrar, Emma Calvé, Emma Eames (with autograph envelope), Toti del Monte, Gilbert-Louis Duprez, Alfred Piccaver, Regina Reznik, Maurice Strakosch, and many others (including a few unsigned, by Judith Gautier, Tamburini, Saint-Saëns, Titta Ruffo, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Laporte, Mitropoulos) 169 items in all, some autograph envelopes, in a ring-backed modern folder, Paris and elsewhere, mainly undated, (nineteenth-century or early twentieth century), occasionally with traces of mount on versos
Composers and musicians. FINE COLLECTION OF OVER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PRINTED VISITING CARDS, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MAJOR OPERA COMPOSERS AND SINGERS, INCLUDING BY BIZET, VERDI, PUCCINI, RICHARD STRAUSS AND MANY OTHERS many items inscribed on both sides, comprising short letters signed, others inscribed but unsigned, including the printed cards of 1) Italian opera composers and conductors: VERDI ("Auguri"), and Giuseppina Verdi (with autograph envelope), PUCCINI ("ossequi…"), MASCAGNI ("per ringrazione vivamente e con saluti..."), Carlos Gomes, Arrigo Boito, Francesco Cilèa, Alberto Franchetti, Carlo Pedrotti (to Martucci), Pietro Platania (to Tamburini), Héctor Panizza, Leopoldo Mugnone, Mancinelli, and Vittorio Gui; 2) French composers: BIZET, Lecocq (with an autograph musical quotation from Les cent vierges), GOUNOD, Massenet, Thomas, Charpentier, Dukas, Delibes, Massé, Messager, d’Indy, Humperdinck (with autograph envelope), Reynaldo Hahn, Alfred Bruneau, Auric, Maurice Emmanuel, André Cluytens and others; 3) German musicians: RICHARD STRAUSS (a message to a printer in 1895), Max Bruch, Goldmark, Lehár, Eduard Hanslick (1860) and Weingartner (a letter about Levi); 4) opera singers: JENNY LIND (inviting a friend to attend La sonnambula), Pauline VIARDOT (a letter to a pupil), Adelina PATTI (2), Lotte LEHMANN, Christine Nilsson, Lillian Nordica, Pauline Lucca, Georg Henschel, Jean-Baptiste Faure, Feodor CHALIAPIN Enrico CARUSO Nelli MELBA, Rose Caron, Victor Capoul, Rosa PONSELLE, Clara Novello, Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich, Aureliano Pertile, Maria Olszewska, Blanche Marchesi, Maria Jeritza, Rosa Raisa, Augusta Holmes, Desirée Artôt, Marietta Albani, Francesco d’Andrade, Cesare Valletti, Georges Thill, Joan Sutherland, Tito Schipa, Graziella Sciutti, Maria Caniglia, Felia Litvinne, Geraldine Farrar, Emma Calvé, Emma Eames (with autograph envelope), Toti del Monte, Gilbert-Louis Duprez, Alfred Piccaver, Regina Reznik, Maurice Strakosch, and many others (including a few unsigned, by Judith Gautier, Tamburini, Saint-Saëns, Titta Ruffo, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Laporte, Mitropoulos) 169 items in all, some autograph envelopes, in a ring-backed modern folder, Paris and elsewhere, mainly undated, (nineteenth-century or early twentieth century), occasionally with traces of mount on versos
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