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Price: $250.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
THE JOACHIM QUARTET |
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Extraordinary Loescher & Petsch pristine 5” x 7” cabinet photograph of the legendary string quartet, 1898. The photograph bears an embossment in the bottom right corner with the date. This is one of several poses taken during this session and while uncommon, is the least common variant. In 1898, the quartet was made up of ; Joseph Joachim 1st violin, Robert Hausmann cello, Emanuel Wirth viola and Carl Halir 2nd violin. All of the members were professor’s at the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik; Halir was a pupil of Joachim’s and both a touring virtuoso and the concertmaster of the Berlin Hofoper. Wirth was Joachim’s assistant for a time and later a masterful teacher, praised by Wilhelmj as the best violin pedagogue in Europe, Hausmann also a pupil of Joachim and then Piatti, was well associated with Johannes Brahms, where he premiered the Maestro’s Cello Sonata op. 99 and with Joachim premiered the Double Concerto in 1887. In 1898, the group was the premier string quartet in Europe. From the personal photography collection of the late Frederick Woodbridge Wilson, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection. |
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