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Inscription: Composé pour mon chere Mr. Alfred Clark, Paris 1865.

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A bound collection of printed and handwritten scores by multiple composers. The selections may be pieces from composers that Clark had met or that had some special significance for him, but this has not been confirmed. Includes printed copies of excerpts from famous operas such as Norma and Die Freischütz, as well as several handwritten manuscripts, some of whose titles and authors could not be discerned, and some copies of more obscure song literature by lesser known German composers. Composers identified include: Carl Maria Von Weber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Carl Banck, Vincenzo Bellini, Conradin Kreutzer, Franz Abt, Felix Mendelssohn, Friedrich Foerster, Louis Schmidt, and Karl August Krebs.

Scope and Contents Arranged by country or city of origin: France, Germany, England, Italy, Berlin, London, Brunswick, the scrapbook contains photographs of opera singers and stage actors, including Emilio Naudin, Désirée Artôt, and Mary Anne Stirling; artists such as Gustave Doré and Rosa Bonheur; novelist Henri Murger; composers such as Joseph Joachim, Adolf von Henselt, and a missing space for a picture of Richard Wagner; and members of royalty such as King Victor Emanuel II of Italy, his sons Prince Umberto (later Umberto I of Italy) and Prince Amadeo (later Amadeo I of Spain), Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom) and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. The photographs are affixed to paper pages, with the names handwritten beneath the images. There is a handwritten index of the photographs in the back of the book. Also included--loosely tucked between pages entitled, "United States"--are three issues of The Season: An Independent Critical Journal, a...