KLEIBER (Erich, 1890-1956, Austrian Conductor and Composer)

Autograph postcard signed, in German with translation, to Frau Dr A. Geissmar thanking her for her kind note and saying he is writing "from my rather damp place of re-convalescence (as the result of continuous rain) ...", 1 side postcard with autograph address and picture of a Park on the verso, Kur Hotel, Ascona, postmarked Switzerland, September

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').
Kleiber is widely considered to be one of the legendary conductors of the 20th century. He was director of the Berlin State Opera for 1903 to 1915 when he was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany.

Item Date:  1920

Stock No:  39329      £175

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