Item #25422 Bust-length vintage postcard photograph of the composer seated with pen poised over paper signed "Jos. B. Foerster" Josef Bohuslav FOERSTER.

Bust-length vintage postcard photograph of the composer seated with pen poised over paper signed "Jos. B. Foerster"

Ca. 137 x 87 mm.

Slightly stained at lower border, not affecting signature; extensive biographical annotations in pencil to verso.

Foerster was a Czech composer, writer, and teacher. "Together with his contemporaries Janáček, Novák, Suk and Ostrčil, he led the development of Czech music from the nationalist trinity of Smetana, Dvořák and Fibich to the interwar avant garde." Oldřich Pukl and John Tyrrell in Grove Music Online.

Item #25422

Price: $135.00  other currencies

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