Spontini, Gaspare - Autograph Note Signed 1831 Singers Russia shown as Siegfried in the

shown as Siegfried in the opera of the same name by Wagner

Chicago Symphony

75 inches for the signed note (visible window size)

Irish-born American composer and conductor (1859-1924)

11 January 1944

Spontini, Gaspare - Autograph Note Signed 1831 Singers Russia shown as Siegfried in theItalian opera composer and conductor (1774 1851), highly famous in his time for some of his 22 operas. Spontini has largely been forgotten after his passing away. Handwritten note, in French, dated in 1831, to an unmentioned recipient, thanking him for his letter and mentioning an upcoming meeting with famous German tenor Eduard Mantius (1806 1874, tenor and later singing pedagogue) to listen a composition he is very interested in. One page, written