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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MUSICIANS.) Group of 7 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed: Samuel Barber * Charles Gounod * Amelita Galli-Curci * Camille Saint-Saëns * Pietro Mascagni * Franz Lehár * Henrietta Sontag. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd
Barber. TLS, to Larry S. Ledford, thanking for remarks about his opera Antony and Cleopatra. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery. With the original envelope. Mount Kisco, 11 November 1971 • Gounod. AMQ Inscribed and Signed, "Ch. Gounod," to Edmond Simon, in French, two bars for violin, notated on a hand-drawn stave with holograph tempo directive. 1 page, 8 1/4x12 1/4 inches. Np, nd • Galli-Curci. AQ dated and Signed: "Nature has created two kinds of rare spirit: one to achieve fine ideas or deeds, the other to admire them! (Joseph Joubert)." 1 page, 5 1/2x7 inches. Np, 1952 • Saint-Saëns. AMQ dated and Signed, "C. Saint-Saëns," three bars, in pencil, written on a hand-drawn stave. 1 page, 8vo; written on lower half of sheet below an AMQS by Édouard Marbois. London, 6 December 1879 • Mascagni. ALS, "PMascagni," to "M'e Cantù," in Italian, thanking for and returning New Year wishes, on verso of his printed visiting card. 1 page, 2 1/2x4 inches. Np, 30 December 1916 • Lehár. Postcard Inscribed and Signed, "Lehár," to Lilli von Fozulie, in German, below a reproduction of a painting by J. v. Eicke-Gläsen showing him conducting. 1 page, 12mo. Vienna, 2 March 1931 • Sontag. Signature and date, "Henrietta Rossi / Sontag," written diagonally on a leaf removed from an album. 1 page, 8vo. Philadelphia, 17 April 1853.
