Mitropoulos, Dimitri. (1896–1960)
Signed Photograph, Mountain Climbing
Signed photograph of the important conductor, who is shown at the summit of a mountain, wearing mountaineering clothes and a coil of rope. He has signed and inscribed at the upper left (translated from the Italian) to his assistant Trudy Goth: "To Trudy / a memory of happy times! / Dimitri." One pinhole, small corner crease and edge wear; overall very good. 6.75 x 9.5 inches (17.3 x 24 cm).Trudy Goth, a writer on music and dance, served as Mitropoulos' European secretary beginning in the early 1950's. Biographer William R. Trotter writes: "Goth, known in America primarily as the director of the Choreographers' Workshop in New York, was a woman of culture and some wealth; her mother maintained a beautiful Florentine villa that became Mitropoulos's headquarters during his visits to Italy [...] Trudy Goth not only too care of routine scheduling and travel arrangements, she also performed a perhaps even more valuable service by protecting Mitropoulos from the constant parade of favor-seekers and influence-peddlers who besieged the conductor whenever he appeared in public. [...] She made few friends in the process." (Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos, p. 344). (17248)
Signed Photograph Classical Music