Betz, Franz - Photograph + Text Quote 1897 HM - Literature Russian conductor and virtuoso pianist

Russian conductor and virtuoso pianist (b

Signed and dated in 1888 by previous owner in German on frontend page

Playbill for a performance of Puccini's "La Bohème" at Grand Teatre del Liceu

considered one of the most influential musicians in the USA in popular music during the 1950s and 1960s

Richard Strauss's favorite soprano

Betz, Franz - Photograph + Text Quote 1897 HM - Literature Russian conductor and virtuoso pianistFamous German bass baritone (1835 1900), creator of the role of Hans Sachs in the World Premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg in 1868 and also the first Wotan in the first complete cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen performed in 1876. Half tone postcard photograph, shown in role (possibly Hans Sachs), initialized signature with a short textual quote, dated in Nuremberg in 1897. Photo by Max Marcus, Berlin. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5