RR Auction: Fine Autograph & Artifact Auction

ALS in French, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 5.5, no date but postmarked Paris, August 7, 1900. Letter to Blanche Marot, in full (translated)

Italian composer (1797–1848) known as a leading composer of the bel canto opera style. ALS in Italian, signed “Donizetti,” one page, 8.75 x 10, July 2

Signed book: Requiem Mass. Novello’s original octavo edition. London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1891. Hardcover, 6.75 x 10, 152 pages. Inscribed at the t

Leading English composer (1857–1934) and a significant figure among late Romantic European musicians. Ink signature, “Edward Elgar,” on an off-white 5

Russian composer (1875–1956) who concentrated primarily on monumental operas, ballets, and cantatas. Scarce vintage matte-finish 3.5 x 5.5 photo of Gl

Russian-Jewish composer and teacher (1883–1957). Rare ALS in Cyrillic, one page, lightly-lined, 5 x 7.75, May 15, 1933. Letter to Yuri Leopoldovich, i

Russian-Jewish composer and teacher (1883–1957). Vintage glossy 2.75 x 4.25 portrait of Gnessin, signed and inscribed in Cyrillic in black ink

AMQS on an off-white 5.5 x 3.75 card, signed in fountain pen, “Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1937.” Below his signature, Rachmaninoff pens a single chord. A mi

Influential composer and pianist (1871–1915) widely considered to be the main Russian symbolist composer. Scarce piano sheet music for Scriabin’s Poem

Excessively rare and extremely desirable manuscript DS in German, one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, July 21, 1801. Untranslated contract in which Haydn c

Exceptional handwritten musical manuscript, unsigned, one page both sides, 9.25 x 12.5, May 1816. Working manuscript for “Minnelied” and “Die fruhe Li

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959) who co-patented a ‘Secret Communications System’ with actress Hedy Lamarr in 1

British conductor of the Halle Orchestra (1899–1970) who previously served as Arturo Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Phi...

Influential avant-garde American composer and artist (1912–1992). Appealing 4.25 x 6 postcard photo of Cage looking out of a window, signed and inscri

Manuscript DS in German, one page, 15 x 18, March 5, 1873. Untranslated diploma issued to Frances Amelie Dillaye by the esteemed Leipzig Conservatory

Cardstock 3.5 x 5.75 photo of Caruso in costume, signed in thick pencil. Double-matted and framed with an unsigned image to an overall size of 22 x 18

Collection of four musical quotes on various size sheets and cards. Quotes are from: Leo Blech, four bars, in pencil, from his opera ‘Alpenkonig’; Got

Collection of six items signed by composers and classical musicians, including: Samuel Coleridge Taylor (AMQS, three measures and lyrics from Hiawatha

Four items: a 5.25 x 3.25 postcard photo of Pietro Mascagni in a bust-length pose, signed in Italian in ink (translated), “With the affectionate greet

Four items: a fountain pen signature, “Richard Strauss,” on an off-white 3.75 x 2.25 card; an early TLS signed “Leonard Bernstein,” February 20, 1946,