Adolfo Betti Papers 1907-1940

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Adolfo Betti Papers 1907-1940

Italian violinist and leader of the Flonzaley String Quartet,Adolfo Betti played in the Quartet for twenty-five years until it disbanded in1929, and spent the remainder of his life writing and teaching. His paperscontain correspondence and concert review clippings as well as a number ofmusical manuscripts and photographs.

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