AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: A good 9.5 x 6 hardback autograph album, one hundred pages, thirty five of them containing ...

AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: A good 9.5 x 6 hardback autograph album, one hundred pages, thirty five of them containing autographs, attractive drawings, musical quotations, statements, etc… by various artists and eminent persons, mostly Danish, signed between 1860 and 1911, including Bjorn Bjornsson (1832-1910) Norwegian Writer. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1903. Author of the Norwegian National Anthem lyrics; Viggo Johansen (1851-1935) Danish Painter; Andreas Peter Berggreen (1801-1880) Danish Composer. An attractive and carefully penned musical quotation, over forty bars on two staves, with multiple annotations in his hand, entitled Ved Receptionen; Viggo Sanne (1840-1896) Danish Musician; Oscar Comettant (1819-1898) French Composer and Traveller, a lengthy autograph inscription reporting on his stay in Denmark with musical content, in French; Gottfried Matthison-Hansen (1832-1909) Danish Composer and Organist. An attractive A.M.Q.S., dated 1901; several unidentified musical quotations signed, one of them entitled `Maurisk Folkesang fra Algier´, another one being the Menuetto by Johann Sebastian Bach, and few more. The autograph album belonged to the Sanne Danish family, closely related to music and composers. Lose spine. G, 33 £250-350