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Georg Solti
Autograph Letter Signed by Georg Solti - 1946

1946

$539.23
£400.17
€450
CA$743.09
A$817.76
CHF 428.83
MX$9,924.31
NOK 5,360.25
SEK 5,074.67
DKK 3,426.66

About the Item

A new Passport for Sir Solti - A.L.S. is the main content of this unique Autograph Letter Signed by Georg Solti to Nesto Jacometti. Paris, July 4th 1946. In French. One page, single-sided. Excellent condition, perfectly readable. two holes on the left margin. Signed "Sol. Goerg". After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, and after the rise of Nazism, the Hungarian and Jewish conductor, Georg Solti had to find refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist teacher. After a short journey in Paris, he asked an help to the Swissh editor and art collector, Nesto Jacometti, to remain in the peacefull Switzerland and demands how to obtein a new passport. Sir Georg Solti (1912 – 1997) The Hungarian-born British orchestral conductor, Solti Georg is best-known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was brutally interrupted by the rise of the Nazism on Hungarian politics, and being of Jewish background he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he had to find refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist teacher. Nesto Jacometti (Locarno, 1898- 1973) Nesto Jacometti is still today a fascinating figure of the Locano and International cultural scene of the last century. Collector and editor of graphic art, he was the promoter of two important editorial projects and adventures: the Guilde Internationale de la Gravure and L’Oeuvre Gravée Born in Locarno at the end of the 19th century, at the age of 30 he left Ticino to move to Paris and immerse himself in the bohemian atmosphere of Montparnasse. The war forces him to return to Switzerland, to Geneva, where he works in the journalistic field and he knows figures as Albert Skira and Pierre Cailler. With the latter one a collaboration born and resulted, in 1949, in a printing guild: an edition of etchings and lithographs destined for a wide circulation of the Paris School.In 1955 Jacometti engaged in the new publishing initiative, L'Oeuvre Gravée, calling new prestigious names on the Parisian art scene.
  • Creator:
    Georg Solti
  • Creation Year:
    1946
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 80.71 in (205 cm)Width: 5.12 in (13 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Condition:
    Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1150701stDibs: LU65037573812

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