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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $200.00 |
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OVERALL LIGHTLY SILVERED, ELSE FINE CONDITION |
MISCHA ELMAN - VIOLINIST |
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Autographed postcard photograph of the young violinist, instrument tucked under his arm, bow in hand. Leiser of Berlin image. After training with Fidelmann and Brodsky in Odessa, he was taken to St. Petersburg in 1902 to study with Leopold Auer. His 1904 debut in St. Petersburg was such a hit, he was immediately contracted for Berlin, the the following year London and Carnegie in New York in 1908. Elman’s reputation grew to the point that Australia called for him in 1914. Elman had a truly magical career up until the point, when Jascha Heifetz, also an Auer pupil and a decade younger reached Carnegie in 1917. He attended the concert with Leopold Godowsky and turned to him and said during an interval, “Do you think it is hot in here?” Godowsky without missing a beat said, “Not for pianists!” Irregardless, Elman remains one of the finest violinists of the 20th Century. We have handled any number of Elman signed photos from this period, we have not previously encountered this Berlin image of him. |
