AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION -- MUSIC. A collection of autograph letters by composers and musicians including Ignaz Moscheles (autograph letter signed to the portraitist J.K. Stieler, Leipzig, 18 February 1855, praising the compositional talents of ‘Frau Köstlin’ [Josephine Lang (1815-1880)], and criticising the debased taste of modern publishers, 3 pages, 8vo, with envelope; and autograph note signed, in pencil, n.d.), Joseph Joachim (autograph letter and autograph postcard signed), Amalie Joachim (letter and card), Felix Weingartner (1898, making arrangements for a concert in Munich), Niels Gade (cut subscription and signature, in German, n.d. sending greetings to Schumann), Gaspare Spontini (1847, discussing arrangements for a concert performance of Olympie), Wilhelm Kienzl (postcard and letter), Paul Heyse, Henri Marteau, August Wilhelmj (2), Anton Schindler and Josef Kainz, also a brief letter signed by Giuseppe Garibaldi (1864, declining to visit Manchester for the present (split at folds)), 18 items in total.