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MUSIC. Autograph album of Rosie Schiff, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Bayreuth, Monte Carlo, Cairo and n.p., 1889-1934, including autograph musical quotations signed by Serge PROKOFIEV (four bars on a single stave from his Piano Concerto no.4), Pietro MASCAGNI (London, 1893, 'Voi lo sapete, o Mamma' from Cavalleria Rusticana), Constant Lambert, William Walton (1930), Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Anton Rubinstein, Paolo Tosti and others, and signatures (a few with inscriptions) of Gustav MAHLER ('Auf Wiedersehen in London!', Hamburg, 24 March 1892), Maurice RAVEL (7 July 1931), Béla BARTÓK (3 February 1932), Adelina Patti ('A beautiful voice is the gift of God'), Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Serge Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Eugène Ysaye, Arthur Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Bruno Walter, Squire Bancroft, Wilhelm Backhaus, Felix Weingartner, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Schnabel, Leopold Godowsky, Ethel Smyth, Vladimir Horowitz, Adrian Boult, Léonide Massine, Alexandre Dumas fils, Guy de Maupassant, Paul Valéry, Sarah Bernhardt, Stefan Zweig, Frank Harris, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Morton Stanley (with Dorothy Stanley, Monte Carlo, 1894) and others, with a few drawings, altogether 285 entries on the pages of 'An Album of Autographs' (London: Marlborough, Gould & Co., n.d.), contemporary roan (scuffed).
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