Postcard portrait photograph with the autograph signature of the composer

by Leo Blech

$100 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Head-and-shoulders. From the studio of Nicola Perscheid, Berlin. Slightly worn and soiled. Blech held many important posts with opera houses in both Germany and Austria throughout his career, including a four-year stint in Riga when, being Jewish, he found himself unable to return to Berlin as conductor at the Staatsoper from a guest engagement in 1937. His operatic repertory was wide. He was especially renowned for his

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