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GRIEG, Edvard (1843-1907). Autograph letter signed to Arnold Rosé, Bergen, 19 June 1896, regretting that Mr Gutmann has made it plain that Grieg's appearance with the Rosé Quartet would be harmful to Gutmann and so Grieg must decline the proposal, 2 pages, octavo - RICHTER, Hans (1843-1916). Autograph letter signed to Arnold Rosé, Vienna, 26 August [1896], 1¼ pages, octavo, autograph envelope, (torn along the horizontal fold) - YSAYE, Eugène (1858-1913). Autograph letter signed to Rosé, London, n.d., 2 pages, octavo - SARASATE, Pablo (1844-1908). Autograph musical quotation signed and dated, London, June, 1884, three bars from Sérénade Andalouse , duodecimo - [BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-1897)] Printed admission card to his obsequies at the Evangelisches Kirche in the Dorotheergasse, Vienna. Arnold Rosé (1863-1946) was a renowned violinist who made his debut in 1879 at a Leipzig Gewandhaus concert. The Rosé quartet, to which the correspondence refers, was founded in 1883, with R.C.Fischer, A.Rzitska and F.Buxbaum. In the 1880's Rosé became leader of the Vienna court orchestra and at the Bayreuth Wagner festival. The quartet toured extensively and performed nearly up to the time of Rosé 's death in London, where he had come to live at the outbreak of World War II. Ysaÿe visited London on numerous occasions from 1889 until the outbreak of the first world war. Brahms died in Vienna on 7 April 1897 and was buried there. His pall-bearers included his publisher Simrock and Dvorák. (5)