Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern - online 11/28, L24401, London

Collection of 14 photographic portraits of composers, including Johann Strauss II, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Mahler, comprising:

Composers and musicians . Three fans with signatures and musical quotations by Mahler, Johann Strauss II, and many others,

Nineteenth-century composers. Collection of autograph music manuscripts and other documents, including by Johann Strauss I, Bruckner and Wolf

Composers and musicians. Collection of autograph letters and photographs including: Verdi (postcard photographic portrait signed "G Verdi", addressed in another hand to Rudolf Biach in Vienna

Fine autograph letter signed ("Joseph Haydn [paraph]"), to the publisher Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf, ABOUT A SONATA AND THREE ENGLISH SONGS, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED

Dr. Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas for the Voice with an Accompaniment for the Piano-Forte [Hob. XXVIa:25],

Three autograph letters and an autograph document, 1899-1931

Collection of prize certificates, plaques and autograph documents, including his framed winner's certificate for the legendary 1962 Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition

Autograph full score of the orchestral tone poem Macbeth, the second version, signed ("Richard Strauss")

Autograph sketch book for Die agyptische Helena, Act II, and the Parergon zur Sinfonia Domestica, op.73, with a quatrain from Schiller and effusive dedication to the pianist Paul Wittgenstein

Autograph sketchleaf for the "Panathenaenzug" for piano (left hand) and orchestra, op.74

Collection of eight autograph letters signed ("Richard Strauss"), including to Eugen Antosch, Dr. Henri Hinrichsen, Otto Lessmann and Hermine Bosetti

Three autograph letters signed ("Richard Wagner"), including to Franz Muller and Georg Aloys Schmitt, about "Rienzi" and "Tristan"

Four autograph letters signed ("Richard Wagner"; "R. Wagner")

Autograph letter signed ("R. Wagner"), to his friend the music critic Wilhelm Tappert, ONLY PARTLY PUBLISHED

Two opera facsimiles 1) Richard Wagner. Tristan und Isolde 2) Richard Wagner. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg,

Album celebrating 75 years of the Bayreuth Festival (1876-1951)

Important archive of autograph correspondence between the Austrian composer and musicologist, Egon Wellesz (1885--1974), and the poet Elizabeth Mackenzie (1921--2021)

Collection of autograph music manuscripts relating to his operas and instrumental works