Postcard portrait photograph with the autograph signature of the composer
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 performances of Wagner and Verdi ... and was also a fine orchestral conductor, admired for reliability, clarity and elegance, and for his sensitivity as an accompanist . ... During his lifetime he achieved considerable success with his own operas." J.A. Fuller Maitland in Grove Music Online.
Item #16221
Price: $100.00 other currencies