Desirable, early Wilhelm Furtwaengler Autograph
Posted in Autograph, Germany, WW2, Wagner, classical music, conductor, music, opera, photography, scarce, vintage on 03/05/2009 11:00 pm by admin
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Desirable, early Wilhelm Furtwaengler Autograph: Hand-signed Photo. CoAThe Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 3,4 x 5,5 inches. Very fine condition. No postcard, real photograph. Photo by Hans Dietrich & Co, Wien. Wilhelm Furtwaengler (1886 -1954) was a German conductor and composer. At his first concert, he led the Kaim Orchestra (now the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra) in Anton Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. He subsequently held posts at Munich, Luebeck, Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Vienna, before securing a job at the Berlin Staatskapelle in 1920, and in 1922 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra where he succeeded Arthur Nikisch. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival, which was regarded as the greatest post a conductor could hold in Germany at the time. Towards the end of the war, under extreme pressure from the Nazi Party, Furtwaengler fled to Switzerland. It was during this troubled period that he composed what is largely considered his most significant work, the Symphony No. 2 in E minor. |
