Photocopy of an autograph letter signed from Adolph Brodsky to Edward Elgar

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Brodsky submits a programme for a concert [to be given to the Worcester Philharmonic Society] for Elgar's approval: Volkmann's Quartet in G minor; the first movement of Mozart's Concerto for Violin and Viola [to be played by Brodsky and Speelman]; Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's first Quartet; Lezione Quinta by Attilio Ariosti [Mr. Fuchs] and Beethoven op.135. Brodsky hopes that Elgar will undertake the accompaniment in the Mozart concerto in which Hellmesberger's cadenza in the first movement is a beauty. If the quartet has already played op.135 in Worcester, they will play op.130 instead. The original is dated 15 Feb 1903, and it is unclear when this photocopy was made.