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102 Albert Gustav Lortzing
(1803-1851), composer, actor and singer, uniface Portrait Plaquette, signed AG [Anton
Garth?] in monogram (for Anton Werner, Berlin), bust left, his name in large letters, 154mm (Ni 1212); and a
heavy Iron Medal, 1951, by Bruno Evermann, 98mm (Ni 1203), Good very fine and very fine. (2)
£50-70
103 Albert Gustav Lortzing
(1803-1851), Bronze Plaquettes (2), by Friedrich Kounitzky, 82mm x 55mm; and
Mayer & Wilhelm, 51mm x 39mm (Ni 1205, 1210); Bronze Medals (2), signed AG [Anton Garth?], similar to
plaque in previous lot, 60mm (Ni 1211). Extremely fine. (4)
£50-70
104 Felix Mendelssohn
(Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809-1847), composer, pianist and conductor,
Silver Medal, 1833, for the Düsseldorf Music Festival, by C Pfeuffer and Loos, 42mm (Ni 1301); Copper Medal,
1841, for the performance of Antigone in Berlin-Potsdam, head of Sophecles right, rev muse of ancient music,
small medallic heads of Mendelssohn and Ludwig Tieck to left and right, 64mm (Ni 1303); Portrait Medals
(5), 1822, Copper, by Veyrat, 41mm (Ni 1288); by Lauer, Silver and Bronze, 50mm, silvered 27mm (Ni 1297,
1298); 1883, White Metal, by H Weckwerth, 39mm; Bronze Plaquettes (2), by Lauer, 55mm x 37mm (Ni 1296);
by Mayer & Wilhelm, 50.5mm x 39mm (Ni 1300). Extremely fine or almost so. (9)
£80-120
Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853). “Sophocles’s Antigone was performed at the Prussian Court Theatre with staging by Ludwig Tieck and
music by Felix Mendelssohn. Commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, this production aimed to re-create aspects of Greek tragedy
by, among other things, using J. J. Donner’s 1839 metrical translation and having an all-male chorus sing the odes”.
105 Lorenz Christof Mizler
(1711-1778), mathematician, philosopher, and composer, non-portrait White Metal
Medal, 44mm (Ni 1340); Henriette [Gertrude Walpurgis] Sonntag (1806-1854), operatic soprano, cast Bronze
Medal, facing bust in operatic costume, within wide border, 38mm, suspension ring (Ni 1916), delightful and
unusual
; Gustav Hollænder (1855-1915), violinist, Director of the Stern Conservatory, Berlin, Silver Medal, bust
right, 42.5mm (Ni 927); other Medals (11), Copper unless stated, Ludwig Christoph Erk (1807-1883), teacher,
publisher of Folk Music, 50mm (Ni 600), silvered; Karl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736-1800), composer and
chorister, 1891, by Lothar Krüger, bust right, 50mm (Ni 624); Adolf von Henselt (1814-1889), composer, by
Lothar Krüger, head right, 40mm (Ni 911); Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), by Peuvrier, 41mm (2) (Ni
947), one silvered; Siegfried Ochs (1858-1929), founder and conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Choir, 1882,
by P Philippe, 50mm (Ni 1531); Josef Pommer (1845-1918), by R Neuberger, 45mm (Ni 1608); Eugen Francis
Charles d’Albert
(1864-1932), pianist and composer, Zinc Medal, 62mm (Ni 14), very fine, though stained;
Hans Sachs
(1494-1576), ‘meistersinger’, poet and playwright, 1894, by Lauer (2), 45mm, silvered, and Silver,
31mm (Ni -); and White Metal Medal of Julius von Bernuth and Franz Schmidt, 39mm (Ni 347). Very fine to
extremely fine
. (14)
£120-150
106 Wilhelm Furtwängler
(1886-1954), Bronze Plaquette, 1926, by J Tautenhayn, 60mm x 43mm (Ni 667);
other Bronze Plaquettes (5), David Popper (1843-1913), cellist, 1906, by Ede Telcs, 50mm x 38.5mm (Ni
1615); Bernhard Scholz (1835-1916), conductor and composer, by Karl Dautert, 67mm x 52mm (Ni 1784);
Friedrich Silcher
(1789-1860), composer, poet and teacher, 50mm x 39mm (Ni 1897); Emil Wipperich
(1854-1917), principal horn in the Vienna Philharmonic, 70mm x 36mm (Ni 2320); Karl Friedrich Zelter
(1758-1832), composer, conductor and teacher (2), 1909, 81mm x 58mm; Ernst II Augustus Charles John
Leopold Alexander Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(1818-1893), Copper Medal, by L C Lauer,
bust left, rev arms and emblems, 50mm (Ni 1745); Bronze Medals (4), Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), 1900,
by Selke-Photosculptur-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 63mm (Ni 972); Max Reger (1873-1916), 1916, by Felix Pfeifer,
59mm (Ni 1663); Julius (Christian) Stockhausen (1826-1906), baritone, Bronze Medal, 1901, by Joseph
Kowarzik, bust right, rev figures aside a musical Sphynx, 70mm (Ni 1933); Bruno Walter (1876-1962), 1960,
by B Evermann, 87mm (Ni 2287). Very fine and better. (11)
£150-200
Ernst II was an amateur composer, his opera Diana von Solange was poorly received at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1890.
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107 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), composer, conductor and music theorist, large uniface circular Bronze
Plaquette, by L Zoellner, bust three-quarters right, 157mm (Ni 2265); larger Iron Plaquette, by Anton Grath,
bust left, 167mm (Ni 2164); smaller bronze Plaquettes (2), by Emil Weigand, head left, 95mm (Ni 2254) and by
J Wysocki (2), 100mm (Ni 2261). Rust marks on second, otherwise very fine and better. (5)
£120-150
108 Wilhelm Richard Wagner
(1813-1883), uniface rectangular Bronze Plaquette, signed in monogram, bust left
in cloth cap, name below, rev stamp of the Koninklijke-Begeer, G V Voorschoten, 179mm x 150mm (Ni -);
uniface circular Bronze Plaquette, by E Torff, bust left, 163mm (Ni 2248). Both good very fine. (2)
£70-90