Photocopy of an autograph letter signed from Adolph Brodsky to Edvard Grieg

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This photocopy is rather faint and occasionally Brodsky's spidery writing is indecipherable. Adolph Brodsky writes enthusiastically to Edvard Grieg. Brodsky explains in reply to Professor Kretschmar that the concerts were Hallé's personal undertaking. Next year a committee will run them. Charles Hallé died and Brodsky had to conduct the concert in Bradford on the day of his death. The heirs are paying for this season's concerts. Various either famous or English conductors have been invited to conduct and next year a permanent conductor will be appointed. Hans Richter has been contacted and Forsyth has undertaken the management of these concerts. Forsyth has told Brodsky that Grieg is expected in England in February and he would like a Hallé concert exclusively of Grieg's music with Grieg as conductor and Nina Grieg as singer. [Brodsky himself would like to conduct Grieg's Piano Concerto.] Brodsky requests Grieg to write a couple of lines if this will be possible. The original is dated 10 Nov 1895, and is is unclear when this photocopy was made.