Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Programs Music Unsigned Pianists conducted by Richard Strauss

conducted by Richard Strauss

Bulgarian bass (1920-1988)

probably trimmed from a larger original size

has been professionally restored

The date of the composition of "Vesennyaya rasputitsa" [Spring Thaw] has been given as 1953

Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Programs Music Unsigned Pianists conducted by Richard StraussAustrian soprano (1878 1942) of Jewish origin, whose career developed during the early 1900s, then became a concert singer and teacher before her tragic murder during the Nazi Holocaust at a concentration camp in Belorussia near Minsk in 1942. Signed postcard photograph, shown in role, dated in Vienna in 1905. Her real handwritten signature is at the top of the photo, with an additional printed signature on the bottom right. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5