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HIS LITTLE-KNOWN "LA BOHÈME" LEONCAVALLO, RUGGIERO. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and Inscribed, to "My good friend [journalist Ludwig] Karpath / . . . R. Leoncavallo," in German, four bars from Marcello's aria in Act I of La Bohème, notated on a hand-drawn stave with holograph title and lyrics, in pencil. 4 1/4x8 1/4 inches, written on verso of a printed advertisement for Stollwerck's cocoa powder; some chipping to edges with minor loss to lower left corner, faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso. Vienna, 22 February 1898
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