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Price: $175.00 |
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OVERALL MINT CONDITION |
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Two page autographed letter by the German conductor on his stationary as Generalmusikdirektor for the State of Saxony, to Hugo Heller, 18 September, 1923. In the text of this un-translated letter, Busch implores Heller, the important Viennese concert manager to help him form a tour for the Staatskappelle Dresden to Czechoslovakia. He requests Heller to organize a big concert in Prague and also asks about the possibilities of Brünn. Germany’s economy was at a breaking point in 1923 and a concert our would help fill the orchestras coffers. Hugo Heller (1870-1923) was the most important concert broker in Vienna. He started with a bookshop, became friendly with the academic elite of Vienna, including Siegmund Freud and shortly became his publisher. He also befriended many composer and musicians of the day, Arnold Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler etc. and was the first to mount a show of Schoenberg’s paintings. His friendship with musicians led to his forming a bureau to produce concerts, Rudolf Bing joined his bookstore in 1920 and a year later was put on the staff of his concert bureau. Busch was in the stable of talent and after Heller’s sudden death in 1923, the same year as our letter, Bing took charge of Busch. Bing lost his position as a concert manager in Berlin in 1933, as he was Jewish and he emigrated to England where he managed the early Glyndebourne Festivals and hired Busch as the Music Director, as Busch refused to conform to the Nazi’s wishes. We offer with a modern glossy 5” x 7” image of the conductor, suitable for framing. Hand written docking numbers and punch holes due to professional use. |
FRITZ BUSCH - CONDUCTOR |
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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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