Description

• Fine Album containing autograph musical quotations and entries by Verdi (from Falstaff (1893), Puccini (from Manon Lescaut), Richard Strauss (the trio from Der Rosenkavalier), Emile Zola (“Souvenir de mon passage à Milan, 14 décembre 1894”), Mascagni (“O Lola” from Cavalleria rusticana), Saint-Saëns (from Henry VIII), an eight-line poetical fragment by D’Annunzio (“O danze, aria di tempi assai lontani…”), Massenet (from La Navarraise), Giordano (from Andrea Chénier), Paderewski (Op.19), Ada Negri, Franchetti, Giocosa, Mengelberg, Chaliapin and others