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Giacomo Meyerbeer and Max Bruch
Collection of six autograph letters and two autograph musical manuscripts
Meyerbeer, Giacomo. Fine autograph letter signed ("G. Meyerbeer"), to Friedrich Röth, enclosing a specimen of his musical hand (see following manuscript), 1 page, 4to, with an autograph envelope, Berlin, 3 May 1851[?]--Autograph album-leaf manuscript signed ("Giacomo Meyerbeer"), comprising an 8-bar 'Andantino quasi Allegretto' in F for piano, notated in brown ink on three two-stave systems, 1 page, cut down from a larger leaf (12.3 x 17cm), Vienna, 17 March 1847, mounted on card, small tear with paper loss to upper outer corner 
Bruch, Max. Five autograph letters signed ("Max Bruch"), to unnamed correspondents, concerning performances of his music, including his opera Odysseus and oratorio Gustav Adolf, mentioning Simrock, Joachim, and his daughter Margarete, and referring to English politics and other matters, 25 pages, various 8vo sizes, Berlin and elsewhere, 1874-1918, some paperclip stains--Autograph musical quotation signed ("Max Bruch"), comprising 5 bars of the melody of "Ich wob dies Gewand mit Thränen am Tage", from the opera Odysseus, notated in brown ink on a single hand-drawn stave, 1 page, 11.5 x 18cm, Berlin-Friedenau, 4 December 1894, central and horizontal folds