Great Conductor ANTON SEIDL Signed Musical Quote AMQS

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(Please note that the photograph you see accompanying the autograph is for reference only , and is NOT included with the item.) Anton Seidl (1850-1898). Eminent Hungarian conductor who excelled at Wagner, and who, as leader of the New York Philharmonic from 1891 until his death, successfully premiered Anton Dvorak's New World Symphony in 1893. At the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1885, he presided over six historic German-language seasons during which the German ensemble arguably surpassed any in Europe. With the New York Philharmonic, at the Brooklyn Academy of music, at Coney's Island's Brighton Beach resort (w he conducted fourteen times a week in the summer), he was also New York's leading concert conductor. The most important musician ever to have visited the United States and stayed, he became an American citizen, bought a country house in the Catskills, and would not be addressed as "Herr." He called for an elaborate system of musical education to counteract the harmful influence of itinerant foreign artists; his goal for the United States was a "national music," "an individual musical art." A 2x3-inch age-toned card on which Seidl drew out a two-bar musical quotation, boldly signed in fountain pen: " Anton Seidl / New York June 7th / 1893 ." The piece is in good condition, with a pencil notation and light mounting remnants read more

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