Ruggero Leoncavallo | Collection of letters and photographs signed by Leoncavallo and others, 1882-1936

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Collection of autograph letters and photographs signed by Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Riccardo Zandonai

RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO. Two letters, one containing a musical quotation from I medici, 2 pages, 15 October 1896, the other written a week before the première of his opera La Bohème, angrily laying claim to precedence against Puccini over the libretto and the music to the opera, on which he has worked for two years, with many furious underlinings, 4 pages, 8vo, Pallanza, 2 April 1897, together with a carte-de-visite photograph signed and a visiting card signed and inscribed---PIETRO MASCAGNI. Early letter (“Pietro”) to Alfredo Soffredini (about Ponchielli), 1 page, on a postcard, Milan, 16 May [18]82---ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI. Autograph musical quotation from Il campiello (Gasparina's aria 'Bondì, Venezia cara'), Milan, 14 February [year XIV]---RICCARDO ZANDONAI. Two autograph musical quotations (from Francesca di Rimini and Conchita) and two letters (one a postcard); together with a secretarial letter by GRIEG (1894), in Italian, and carte-de-visite and cabinet-style photographs signed by Giuseppe Giacosa (in 1902), Ada Negri, Cesare Lombroso and two others unsigned of Francesco Crispi, 15 items in all