NEW ACQUISITIONS September 2022 24 items including:
- original set designs for Alfredo Catalani's opera Loreley
- a collection of rare 19th century Portuguese musical imprints, including a number of pieces by women composers
- an original sketchleaf from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
- an original portrait drawing of Verdi, apparently unrecorded
- a 16th century "picture-motet" with music by Cornelius Verdonck, a very early example of engraved music
- an autograph letter from Wagner to Milanese music publisher Giovanna Lucca relative to rehearsals of Lohengrin