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INCLUDES MUSICAL QUOTATIONS BY DVORÁK AND GRIEG (ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 60 items, mostly Autograph Musical Quotations Signed, by 19th-century composers, performers and others, kept by Max Klein. Each written on album page, most 1-2 per page, most on recto and verso, few dated in unknown hand. Square 8vo, morocco, worn; text block shaken, most gatherings detached. (MRS) Vp, 1884-93
AMQsS: Antonín Dvorák. Additionally inscribed, to "M. Klein-ovi," in Czech, 9 bars on two-staff system, from his Symphony [No. 7] in D minor [which premiered at St. James's Hall on 22 April 1885]. London, 18 April 1885 Edvard Grieg. 6 bars, with holograph "allegro" and "from p. 8." Alone on page, but autograph by another on verso. London, 2 May 1888 Arthur Sullivan. 5 bars with holograph lyrics: "Orpheus with his lute . . . ." Alone on page, but autograph by another on verso. Np, May 1884 Max Bruch. 8 bars. London, 15 June 1893 Pablo de Sarasate. 5 bars. London, 5 April 1888 Camille Saint-Saëns. 3 bars. London, 5 December 1885 Joseph Joachim. 4 bars. "St. James's Hall" [London], 2 March 1885 Julius Benedict. 5 bars. London, 3 August 1884 Hans Richter. 5 bars. London, January 1887 Alexander C. Mackenzie. 6 bars. London, 29 May 1884 Carlo Alfredo Piatti. 5 bars. London, 2 February 1885 Frederic Hymen Cowen. 5 bars. Np, May 1884 Giovanni Bottesini. 3 bars. London, 2 March 1885 August Manns. 4 bars. "Crystal Palace" [London], 28 April 1887 Arrigo Boito. 4 bars. 7 June 1893 Hamilton Clarke. 5 bars. Melbourne, 20 October 1889 others. Other items: Henry Morton Stanley. Signature and date. Additional Signature by Dorothy Stanley on same page. "S.S. 'Oceana' . . . near S. lat 20°," 23 March 1892 Adelina Patti. AQS, 6 lines quoted from Liszt. Boston, 31 December 1884 Nellie Melba. Signature and date. London, 1893 Ellen Terry. Signature and date. Boston, November 1884 Henry Irving. Autograph Inscription Signed. Boston, 18th no year Edwin Booth. Signature and date. Np, December 1884 Jenny Lind. Signature ("Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt"). Np, [1886] Felix Moscheles. Autograph Inscription Signed. Np, 2 October 1884 Emma Calvé. Autograph Inscription Signed. Np, July 1893 Charles Villiers Stanford. Signature and date. Np, 22 December 1887 Jean de Reszke. Autograph Inscription Signed. Additional Signature by Édouard de Reszke on the same page. Np, 19 July 1887 others. Max Klein (1858-1894), was violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and later in the English Orchestra of Melbourne; he was a brother of music critic Herman Klein (1856-1934).
