Autograph musical quotation

by Hermann Weil

$40 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

4 measures from the overture to Wagner Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Oblong octavo. In black ink. Signed in full and dated New York, 1912. Laid down to mounting sheet. Weil, a German baritone, made his debut at Freiburg as Wolfram in 1901; he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in New York in 1911 as Kurwenal, then sang Faninal in the American premiere of Der Rosenkavalier there in 1913. By 1939 he had left Germany and settled in New York

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