Giuseppe Verdi | Album containing autograph musical quotations and other entries, 1893-1930

Giuseppe Verdi

Fine album belonging to Adele Stragliati Suardi, containing autograph musical quotations signed and other entries, including by

Giuseppe Verdi (from Falstaff, 3 bars, 2 December 1893), Puccini (from Manon Lescaut, 2 bars, February 1997), Richard Strauss (the trio from Der Rosenkavalier, 5 bars, March 1928), Emile Zola (“Souvenir de mon passage à Milan, 14 décembre 1894”), Mascagni ('O Lola' from Cavalleria rusticana, 3 bars, 10 January 1895), Saint-Saëns (from Henry VIII, 4 bars, 27 December 1895), an eight-line poetical fragment by D’Annunzio (“O danze, aria di tempi assai lontani…”), Massenet (from La Navarraise, 2 bars, January 1896), Giordano (from Andrea Chénier, 2 bars, April 1898), Paderewski (Op.19), Ada Negri, Franchetti, Giocosa, Mengelberg, Chaliapin and others

32 pages, plus blanks, small quarto (19.3 x 12.6cm), gilt edges, Milan, 1893-1930, modern calf, gilt, some splitting between gatherings

This attractive album appears to have been owned by Adele Stragliati Suardi, wife of the Italian painter Carlo Stragliati (1868-1925), notable for his portraits, especially those commissioned by figures from the world of music.