ITALIAN COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS: A very fine small selection of two Autograph Letters signed, one to a visiting card with small autograph musical quotation, two signed and inscribed photographs and an autograph note signed by three renowned Italian Composers and musicians of the early 1900´s, comprising MONTEMEZZI ITALO (1875-1952) Italian Composer. Best known for his opera L´Amore dei Tre Re (“The Love of the Three Kings”), 1913. Signed and inscribed postcard photograph, the image showing Montemezzi in a formal head and shoulders profile pose. Signed and inscribed in bold black ink `Omaggio di Montemezzi´, also dated in his hand `Roma, December 1938´. Together with an A.L.S., Montemezzi, to both sides of his personal printed visiting card, June 1919, stating in part `Prego mettere nell´edizione che in partiture una corona… prima della fine: una corona al canto, e una nella stanghetta, cosi…´ (Translation: “Please include in the edition and in the scores a crown sign above... before the end: a crown sign above the singing, and one in the bar line, like this...”), and bearing to the front as a continuation to the autograph letter, a small and attractive autograph musical quotation; PIZZETTI ILDEBRANDO (1880-1968) Italian Composer and Musicologist. Vintage signed and inscribed 3.5 x 5.5 photograph, the image showing Montemezzi in a half-length pose. Signed and inscribed in bold black ink `Ildebrando Pizzetti´, to the lower white border of the image, also dated in his hand `Roma, 1951´. Together with an A.L.S., `I.Pizzetti´, one page, 8vo, Milan, 8^th June 1930, on the printed stationery of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, in Italian. Pizzetti asks his correspondent to send him a manuscript `Prego di mandarmi…di quella lettera il manoscritto …´ & ROTA NINO (1911-1979) Italian Composer, Pianist and Conductor. Rota is best known for his film scores, over 150, notably for films of Fellini and Visconti. The relationship between Fellini and Rota was so strong that at Fellini's funeral Giulietta Massina, Fellini's wife, asked trumpeter Mauro Maur to play Rota's Improvviso dell'Angelo in the Basilica in Rome. Rota finally got in 1974 the Academy Award for his score for The Godfather Part II. A.N.S., `Rota´, one page, 4to, November 1955, in Italian. Rota responds at the base of a letter addressed to him by a student, stating in part `Provvisoriamente si concede di fare lezioni in due giorni consecutive, che non siano ne il giovedi ne il venerdi´ (Translation: “Temporarily you are allowed to have lessons on two consecutive days, which are neither Thursday nor Friday”) G to VG, 5