Bust-length portrait etching and drypoint of the composer

by the German artist Waldemar Pech 1911-? by Pietro Mascagni

$125 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

120 x 95 mm. plus margins. Printed on wove paper. Signed by the artist in pencil at lower right. A very good impression. Slightly worn and creased; small stain to lower edge. Mascagni was an Italian composer and conductor, best-known for his one-act masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana, enormously successful from its first performance at the Costanzi in Rome in 1890. From then on Mascagni spent the rest of his long career treating a wide variety

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