Large and boldly penned three-measure AMQS by the important conductor, composer and pedagogue from Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, signed and inscribed and dated 1908 beside a mounted original portrait photograph. In very fine condition, from an album compiled by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1869 - 1937), English-Canadian botanist and journalist. 10 x 13 inches (25 x 33 cm).
One of the most important figures in the history of American music performance, Walter Damrosch was conductor for many years of the NY Symphony Society and Oratorio Society, and it was apparently he who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build Carnegie Hall as a home for the two societies. He was also instrumental in the establishment of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Damrosch presented the American premieres of many important works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Wagner, Elgar, commissioned Gershwin's piano and conducted the premiere of his "An American in Paris."
Large and boldly penned three-measure AMQS by the important conductor, composer and pedagogue from Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony, signed and inscribed and dated 1908 beside a mounted original portrait photograph. In very fine condition, from an album compiled by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1869 - 1937), English-Canadian botanist and journalist. 10 x 13 inches (25 x 33 cm).
One of the most important figures in the history of American music performance, Walter Damrosch was conductor for many years of the NY Symphony Society and Oratorio Society, and it was apparently he who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build Carnegie Hall as a home for the two societies. He was also instrumental in the establishment of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Damrosch presented the American premieres of many important works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Wagner, Elgar, commissioned Gershwin's piano and conducted the premiere of his "An American in Paris."