Collection with 40 files of composers, singers, musicians, conductors, musicologists of the late 18th to the early 20th c.
Estimation :
400 / 600
Adjudication :
350 €
Description
Interesting lot with extensive information and documentation on important names in classical music. Almost each file consists of a short biography, most files with autograph letters, postcards, visiting cards or notes, some newspaper articles, one with a music manuscript, etc. A large part of the signed autograph leters are adressed to Louis Schneider. Composers : Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934), Paul Vidal (1863-1931), Fernand le Borne (1862-1929), George Menier (1873-1967) George Auric (1899-1983), Nadia Boulenger (1887-1979), Fréderic Mompou (1893-1987), Antoine Mariotte (1875-1944), Jules Mazellier (1879-1959), Léon Moreau (1870–1946), Gaston Salvayre (1847-1916), Léon Vasseur (1844-1917), Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (1821-1910), Francisco Salvador-Daniel (1831-1971), Alphonse Duvernoy (1842-1907), Alexandre Georges (1850-1938), Ch. Ferdinand Lenepveu (1840-1910), René Lenormand (1846–1932), Sylvio Lazzari (1857-1944), Michel-Maurice Levy (1883-1965), Henri Maréchal (1842-1924), Félicien David (1810-1876), Victorin Joncières (1839-1903), Louis Varney (1844-1908), Ernest Reyer (1823-1909), Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), Charles Lecocq (1832-1918), Xavier Boisselot (1811-1893), Fromental Halévy (1799-1862), Louis Ganne (1862-1923), Alexandre Luigini (1850-1906); conductors : Paul Taffanel (1844-1908), George Marty (1860-1908), Rhené Baton (1879-1940), Otto Lohse (1859-1925); musician and singers : Camille Sivori (1815-1894), Hortense Schneider (1838-1920), Louis Lablache (1794-1858).
