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STRAVINSKY, IGOR. Photograph postcard dated and Signed, bust portrait by
Hoyningen-Huene, showing him with head resting against a wall casting a long shadow.
Inscribed in the image, upper left. 3
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inches; slight crack to emulsion at upper left
touching “g” of signature (without loss), correspondence side blank. Np, 1941
[600/900]
“THE COMMERCIAL [IDEAS] OF GATTI-CASAZZA
LED METO ABANDONTHE METROPOLITAN”
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TOSCANINI, ARTURO. Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dearest Johnson,” in
Italian, in green ink, explaining that the presence of [Artur] Bodanzky at the Metropolitan
Opera was due to a recommendation from [Ferruccio] Busoni, noting that the reason for
his own departure from the Met was a conflict of outlooks with Met general manager
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, and recommending Henry Weinberg as a theater conductor. 4 pages,
8vo, written on a single folded sheet; second and third pages written vertically.
Np, 27 November 1939
[800/1,200]
“
In 1915, the reason for the arrival at the Metropolitan of my poor friend Bodanzky was the
recommendation of Busoni. He was supposed to share the German repertoire with me. My
artistic views butting up against those commercial [ideas] of Gatti-Casazza led me to abandon
the Metropolitan, so that the collaboration with the friend didn’t happen. [Gatti-Casazza],
however, remained . . . for a good twenty-four years.
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Today I would like to recommend . . . Henry Weinberg.Weinberg is a born theater orchestra
conductor . . . . I consider him the best among the young. . . .”
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