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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $100.00 |
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Rare autographed postcard photograph of the important conductor relaxing with a cigar and a score at his home. The conductor came to the U.S. in 1902 to conduct the German wing of the Metropolitan Opera. (765 performances over 13 years.) During this time, he conducted the first staged performance of Wagner’s “Parsifal” outside of Bayreuth (1903) where he was banned from further work at Bayreuth by Cosima Wagner. (After the copyright had expired, but Wagner had stated in his will the opera could not be performed outside of Bayreuth.) Ostensibly the ban effected his ability to conduct in Germany. He moved in 1915 to the West Coast as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until his retirement in 1929. Hertz also is known as “Father of the Hollywood Bowl,” founding and conducting the initial concert there in 1922…..and many thereafter! |
ALFRED HERTZ - CONDUCTOR |
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MINT CONDITION. |