Autograph letters signed (11), dated : [London], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1885-1903.

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Autograph letters signed (11), dated : [London], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, 1885-1903.

Praising [Hamish] MacCunn's Lord Ullin's Daughter and other works by MacCunn, mentioning the Handel Festivals of 1888 and 1903, Barnby, Gounod, Hueffer, Engel, Smetana's Vltava (Moldau), Albert Fransella, d'Albert, Cowen, Santley, criticizing the "well-managed Richter-adulation in London" and Richter's conducting of Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, etc.

11 items (46 p.) ; (8vo)

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