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Highly important music manuscripts, printed music and continental autograph letters and historical documents : including autograph manuscripts of Stravinsky, 'The rite of spring' ; J.S. Bach, Cantatas 'O ewigkeit du donnerwort' BWV 20 and 'Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes gut' BWV 113 ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rondon for horn and orchestra K. 371 and sections from grabmusik, K. 42/35a ; Ravel's version of Mussorgsky's 'Khovanshchina' ; Honegger, 'Chota rustaveli' ; Richard Strauss, 'Aus Italien' ; an autograph 'ricordo' and sketch by Michelangelo ; the certificate of marriage between Napoleon and Josephine ; a fine autograph letter by Napoleon to his brother about Josephine ; the autograph draft of Mussolini's declaration of war ; letters and poetical manuscripts of Pablo Neruda ; correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra with Grand Duke Michael ; autograph letters and manuscripts by J.C. Bach, Berlioz, Cherubini, Chopin, Clementi, Diaghilev, Delius, Gounod, Grainger, Grieg, J. Haydn, M. Haydn, Hummel, Kubelík, Liszt, Mascagni (full score of 'Nerone'), Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Schumann, Sinding, Spohr, R. Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Wagner ; Balzac, Catherine the Great, Charles V. Charlotte of Mexico, Christina, D'Antraigues, Delvaux, Franz Joseph, Garibaldi, Hesse, A. von Humboldt, Hugo, Kutusov, Mme de Lafayette, Le Corbusier, Marie Louise, Maria Theresa, Magritte, Maximilian of Mexico, Monet, Mussolini, Napoleon I, Pissarro, Puskin, Rodin, Archduke Rudolf, Sévigné, Thiers, Toulouse-Lautrec, William the Silent and Valéry. |