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Album ALBUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS SIGNED BY STRAUSS, PUCCINI, RACHMANINOV, SIBELIUS, MASSENET, SAINT-SAËNS AND OTHERS, INCLUDING SERGEI RACHMANINOV. From the slow movement Piano Concerto no.2, Op.18, (Moscow, 17 November 1903)--NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV. Five bars from Scheherazade--SIBELIUS, JEAN. Four bars from 'The Swan of Tuonela' (Legends, Op.22 no.2)--GIACOMO PUCCINI. Two bars from La Bohème--RICHARD STRAUSS. Two bars of the opening theme from the first movement of Ein Heldenleben, Op.40--ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV. Five bars from his Symphony no. 7--CÉSAR CUI. 3 bars from the 20 Poèmes de Jean Richepin, (St. Petersburg, 25 December 1903)--Joseph Joachim. Five bars from Bach's Partita no.2 in D minor, BWV 1004; with other musical quotations signed by MASSENET, Scharwenka, Stephen Heller, Melba, Berta Morena, Lamond, Heifetz, Kreisler, Sarasate, Guilmant, Louis Diemer, Edward German, Parry, Prout, Rheinberger, Brodsky, d'Indy, d'Albert, Liadov, Wieniawski, Auer, Weingartner, Philippe Rüfer, Damrosch, Reinecke, Jan Kubelík, Grainger, Ysaye, Riemann, Pauline Viardot, Oskar Merikanto, Chaminard, Moszkowski (five bars from his Caprice espagnol, Paris, December 1903), Saint-Saëns (four bars from his Second Symphony), Humperdinck, Taneyev, Leschetizky, Somervell, Paderewski (signed photographic portrait), Casals, Homer N. Bartlett, and others over 170 entries in a printed calendar (Musical Messages for Every Day in the Year. A Musician's Birthday Book, 1897), the quotations mostly either entered or written on pre-ruled slips of paper and mounted on the pages of the calendar, some items loose, one visiting card signed, with a loose photographic image of Pachmann signed, also including an autograph letter signed by Emil Sauer, with some unused slips of singly-ruled paper, calf gilt, Moscow, St. Petersburg and elsewhere, mostly first decade of the twentieth century, binding worn but sound