[Classical music] Autograph album of Musical and Literary figures visiting Amsterdam (1902 - 1909)

Album compiled by Lydia van Heemskerck Veekens. Stunning signature album of approximately 70 contributions by musical and literary greats from the fin du siècle that visited the Amsterdam music scene between 1902 and 1909. Among the many signatories are Richard Strauss (with a short manuscript musical annotation), Pauline Maria Strauss-de Ahna, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jan Kubelik, Raoul Pugno, Carl Flesch, Charlotte Huhn, Pablo Casals, Frits Feinhals, Teresa Carreño, Ernst v. Possart, Ernst Kraus, Josefine Reinl, Erika Wedekind, Fritz Kreisler, Frederic Lamond, Louis Zimmermann, Clotilde Kleeberg-Samuel, Emma Nevada-Palmer, Ludwig Wüllner, Robert Blass as well as Dutch composers, writers and musicians such as Bernard Zweers, Alphons Diepenbrock, Louis Bouwmeester, Julius Röntgen, Leander Schlegel, Willem Mengelberg (with musical inscription), Josef Hofmann, Therese Schwartze (painter), K.J.L. Alberdingk Thijm (ps. L. van Deyssel), Jozef Israels (painter) and Albert Verwey with dedication 'Hun die niet haasten wordt het werken lichter, Zij die niet haasten maken elk werk schoon'.