Rossini, Gioachino AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ROSSINI"), TO DONIZETTI ("DILETTISSIMO AMICO"), 14 MARCH 1843 a letter of recommendation for the young contralto singer Marietta Alboni, a pupil of Rossini's at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna (from which he laments Donizetti's absence), praising her natural talents, describing her training, reporting that she has been given a contract to sing [at the Kärtnertortheater] in Vienna by the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli, and that all she needs now is Donizetti's support, asking him to help further her career ("...Marietta Alboni allieva di quell Liceo a cui Fortuna non arrise ti consegnerà la presente, scritturata da Merelli si produrrà a Vienna qual Contralto. La natura ha dotata questa buona ragazza di molti mezzi...") 1 page, 8vo (c.20.5 x 12.5cm), integral autograph address leaf ("a Donizetti"), Bologna, 14 March 1843, light creasing along folds
Rossini, Gioachino AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("ROSSINI"), TO DONIZETTI ("DILETTISSIMO AMICO"), 14 MARCH 1843 a letter of recommendation for the young contralto singer Marietta Alboni, a pupil of Rossini's at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna (from which he laments Donizetti's absence), praising her natural talents, describing her training, reporting that she has been given a contract to sing [at the Kärtnertortheater] in Vienna by the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli, and that all she needs now is Donizetti's support, asking him to help further her career ("...Marietta Alboni allieva di quell Liceo a cui Fortuna non arrise ti consegnerà la presente, scritturata da Merelli si produrrà a Vienna qual Contralto. La natura ha dotata questa buona ragazza di molti mezzi...") 1 page, 8vo (c.20.5 x 12.5cm), integral autograph address leaf ("a Donizetti"), Bologna, 14 March 1843, light creasing along folds
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