BODANZKY (Artur, 1877-1939, Austrian Conductor)

Autograph Postcard Signed to Frau Anna Geissmar in Mannheim, in German with translation, saying that he has "never felt so well and send my warmest good wishes to you, Leopold, Berte and my other friends in Mannheim whom I often think about even though I am no longer Court Musician there ...", 1 side postcard, 26th February

Bodanzky was Mahler's assistant in Vienna (1902) and in 1912 arranged a great Mahler Festival with over 1500 performers. He was at Mannheim 1909-1915, when, on the strength of a Parsifal he had conducted at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan in New York appointed him to conduct their German Repertoire.
Frau Geissmar's husband Leopoldus was a lawyer in Mannheim, where he ran a well-known series of concerts. He owned a Stradivarius, which his daughter Berthe, 1892-1949, brought out under her arm when she and her mother escaped from the Nazis in the 1930s. See Berthe's 'The Baton and the Jackboot, Recollections of Musical Life', London, 1947 (published in New York as 'Two Worlds of Music').

Item Date:  1916

Stock No:  39310      £75

             Add to Wish List     Order/Enquire