Autograph letter signed, dated : Dresden, 18 March 1881, to [Max Staegemann in Berlin], 1881 Mar. 18.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : Dresden, 18 March 1881, to [Max Staegemann in Berlin], 1881 Mar. 18.

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Recommending the mezzo-soprano Bolte, whom he has heard sing Azucena, Fidès, Elisabeth's aria [from Tannhäuser] and the Ortrud-Elsa duet from Lohengrin, saying that he suffered a stroke and has been confined to bed for two years and two months, etc.

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