Album leaf : autograph manuscript, 1860 July.

Record ID: 
227934
Creator: 
Haas, Friedrich, 1811-1886.
Biographical Data: 
Swiss organ builder of German birth.
Title: 
Album leaf : autograph manuscript, 1860 July.
Date: 
1860 July.
Inscription/Markings: 

Reading: "Weisst Du, worin der Spass des Lebens liegt? Sei lustig! -- geht es nicht, so sei vergnügt. [...] Friedrich Haas [...] July 1860."

Notes: 

The quotation is elsewhere attributed to Goethe.

Associated names: 

Ganz, Leopold, 1806-1869, former owner.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.