including by Raoul Pugno (2), Xaver Scharwenka (to George Grove, concerning the performance dates of Handel's operas in Germany), Leschetizky (2), Conrad Ansorge (10: seven addressed to Peter Raabe, four on postcards, and with four autograph envelopes), Édourd Risler (3), Eugen d'Albert (2), Lamond (2: an autograph letter signed, with an autograph envelope, and a signed album-leaf inscription), Teresa Carreño (with autograph envelope), Edwin Fischer (3, two of which typed), Elly Ney (2, one partly typed, one written to her father on her seventh birthday), Siloti (5 pages, about errors in the printed edition of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz no. 1, with an annotated autograph musical example by Siloti, 25 February 1932) Kempff (2, one of which typed), Raoul von Koczalski (2, one on a postcard photograph of himself), Cortot (2; one paying birthday homage to Anthony van Hoboken); with an autograph musical album leaf by Julius Epstein, containing the first four bars of 'Scherzino' in C minor for piano, dated March 1861; a signed photograph of Wilhelm Backhaus, dated 1947; an autograph musical quotation from Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio, op.97, signed and inscribed by Paderewski ("Zur Erinnerung an....Joseph Joachim und seinen Verehrer I J Paderewski"); and a signed photograph of Emil Gilels mounted on an album leaf inscribed and signed by the pianist as well as by the conductor Eugen Jochum 

over 40 items all together, various sizes, Berlin, London, Coswig, Bonn, Carlsbad, and elsewhere, 1853-1976, the signature to one Fischer letter cut away and re-affixed, small tear to one Kempff letter

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