Xavier LEROUX (1863-1919). Autograph musical manuscript, William Ratcliff; 260 pages in-fol. written on the recto and laminated recto-verso, mounted on tabs, and 75 pages in-fol. written in pencil on the recto, all mounted on tabs and bound in 2 volumes of green half-chagrin, stamped Choudens Fils éditeur de musique on the 2nd volume. Important fragments of the orchestral score of the opera William Ratcliff, musical tragedy in 4 acts after Heinrich Heine, libretto by Louis de Gramont, music by Xavier Leroux, first performed on January 22, 1906 at the Nice Opera. Included here are orchestral scores of Act II: "La Taverne" (260 p., largely intended to be polygraphed, with slight wetness), and of a "4th tableau" (75 p., the end is missing).