Donizetti, Gaetano - Autograph Letter Signed 1841 + Envelope + Vintage Print Playbills Music 14 pages plus covers

14 pages plus covers

Peter Maxwell Davies: The Martydom of St

Licia Albanese (both signed on the cover of this 4-page program)

well-known in the first half of the 20th century

Donizetti, Gaetano - Autograph Letter Signed 1841 + Envelope + Vintage Print Playbills Music 14 pages plus coversItalian composer (1797 1848) mostly of operas, one of the 3 most important composers of the Bel Canto style together with Rossini and Bellini, during the first half of the 19th century. Autograph letter handwritten and signed by him, 4 x 5. 25 inches. Presumably from around 1841, sent to a Mr Mauroy, Secretary of the Royal Court of Paris. Bold, clear writing and signature, some folds, otherwise in excellent condition. Donizetti refers to an