April 12, 2024
1918, Joesph Stransky, famed Czech composer, conductor, letter to Mount Holyoke
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This item is a wonderful,original letter dated 1918, where Josef Stransky has thanked the cheerleaders of Mount Holyoke College for a great cheer at their last meeting....signed Josef Stransky. Letter is 5x8, with orginal envelope, mild toning, folds, else in overall good condition.Josef (or Joseph) Stransky (September 9, 1872 - March 6, 1936) was a Czech conductor, composer, and art collector/dealer who moved to the United States and conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1911 to 1923.From his installation in 1911 until the end of the 1919-20 season, Stransky conducted every Philharmonic concert.He was elected an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music, in 1917 by the Fraternity's Alpha Chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1921 the Philharmonic merged with the National Symphony, conducted by Willem Mengelberg. For the 1922-23 season, Stransky conducted the first half of the season and Mengelberg the second: Stransky subsequently left the orchestra.Before his death, Stransky amassed a private art collection that included more than 50 major impressionist and post-impressionist paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Matisse, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro, Sisley, Delacroix, Ingres, Corot, Courbet,
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