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AUTOGRAPHS of the English Bass Opera Singer FRANCO NOVARA and the English-born Pianist MADELINE SCHILLER.
1886100911<p>November 21 1886. 1886. Good. - Franco Novara's autograph boldly penned on 3-1/2 inch high by 4-1/2 inch card stock clipped from an album and mounted onto slightly larger card stock. Signed and dated "Franco Novara / 21. Nov. 1886. / New York". Mounted on the verso of the mount is the pianist Madeline Schiller's autograph penned on 3-1/2 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide card stock signed "Very Sincerely / Madeline Schiller". There is offsetting to the card signed by Novara and remnants of paper adhere to the right edge of the card bearing Schiller's signature with some offsetting along the left edge of that card. Good.</p><p>The English bass Francis Naish sang under the stage name Francis Novara 1859-1899. He was known for his performance as the devilish Mephistopheles in Gounod's "Faust" which opened on October 22 1883 as the first opera in the Metropolitan Opera's first season.</p><p>The English-born pianist Madeline Schiller 1843-1911 went to Leipzig to study with Ignaz Moscheles making her debut there with Mendolssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 on January 23 1862. She returned to London to perform there as well as Australia. She married Marcus Elmer Bennett of Boston and moved to the United States in 1873 performing in New York. She returned to Europe for a while after her husband's death mostly in France before returning to New York to perform the premiere of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 where she remained.</p> November 21, 1886.
