Bust-length photograph of the noted conductor with autograph signature and date New York December 1914

by Alfred Hertz

$100 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Identified in the plate in white below the image and with GGCo. at lower left corner. 197 x 141 mm.Laid down to mounting sheet. A German-born American conductor, Hertz went to the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1902, making his début with Lohengrin and staying until 1915 as principal conductor of German opera. There he conducted ... the first Parsifal ..., the American premières of Salome and Der Rosenkavalier, and the

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