MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–1791).

An album belonging to May COATES (her name appears at the top, written in Gothic script), containing letters, envelopes, cut-out signatures, and an envelope containing a lock of MOZART’s hair, with the following inscription in pencil: ‘Mozart’s hair given by his son to Pauer, who was his friend and pupil’. The Austrian pianist and composer Ernst PAUER (1826–1905) was a pupil of Franz Xaver Wolfgang MOZART (1791–1844). All known locks of Mozart’s hair come from Franz Xaver Mozart (including another sold at Sotheby’s in London on 19 May 1989, lot 467). Among the autographs in the album are letters from Wellington, Anna Maria Hall, Anne Thackeray, E.J. Cobbett, George Frederic Watts, John William Inchbold (referring to Rossetti), Hubert von Herkomer, Jenny Lind-Goldschmitt, Stephen Heller, Thomas Hughes, Henry Taylor, George Meredith; and cut-out envelopes and signatures from Lord Palmerston, W. Gladstone, L. Alma-Tadema, David Livingstone…