including by: J.F. Reichardt (autograph receipt for 100 ducats given to him by Freiherr von Riedesel, 1 page, Vienna, 23 August 1783), Ferdinand Ries (to 'Mr Chappel', in English, 1 page) Spontini (1 page, mentioning the King of Prussia), Thalberg (one autograph letter signed, and an autograph musical quotation signed, 1 page, 2 May 1842), Hiller (an autograph album-leaf, signed), Robert Franz, (album-leaf signed and inscribed), Kalkbrenner (to Moscheles, 1 page, no date), Alexander Dreyschock (an autograph musical quotation, signed and inscribed, Prague, 27 May 1859, and an autograph letter signed), Rubinstein, Moszkowski, Leoncavallo (3 pages, concerning a financial matter), Bruch (3 pages, with an autograph envelope, to the violin virtuoso Waldemar Meyer, about his son, mentioning Weingartner; and a printed questionnaire regarding his compositions, with autograph answers by Bruch, signed, Friedenau, 16 November 1893), Busoni (one autograph letter and a cabinet-style photograph inscribed and signed), Massenet (autograph musical quotations from Werther and Manon, 1 page, cut down from a larger leaf, 1899), Pfitzner (document signed), Poulenc (about a radio, 1 page, 29 March 1957)

c.33 pages in all, various sizes, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Zurich, and elsewhere, 1783-1957, where indicated, browning and a few small tears to the Busoni letter, affecting the signature

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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