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Auction archive: Lot number 114

Archive of the Violinist Mischa Weisbord – The “New Paganini” – Letters, Posters, Photographs, Diaries, Records and Other Items

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Auction archive: Lot number 114

Archive of the Violinist Mischa Weisbord – The “New Paganini” – Letters, Posters, Photographs, Diaries, Records and Other Items

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US$10,000 - US$15,000
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An archive including more than one thousand letters, documents, posters, photographs, diaries, records and other items, from the estate of the violinist Mischa Weisbord. Various places in Europe, USA, China and Palestine, 1910s to the 1980s (most items are from the 1920s to the 1940s). German, French, Russian, English, Hebrew and other languages. Mischa Weisbord (1907-1991) was a Jewish-Russian violinist who was highly successful in the first decades of the twentieth century and was named by his admirers the "New Paganini". Weisbord started to play the violin when he was three years old. His father, Alexander, who was a violinist, discovered his son's great talent right away and sent him to study in St. Petersburg with the violinist Leopold Auer. In 1917, when the communist revolution broke out, the family had to immigrate to China, and from there Mischa and his father wandered to Brussels where he studied with the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe and started to perform on stage. His success was rapid. During the 1910s and 1920s Weisbord was declared a child prodigy and was invited to perform throughout Europe. In 1926 he played for the first time in "Carnegie Hall" in New York, and this was before he even turned twenty. The year 1927 was supposed to be his year of exceptional success: Weisbord was invited for the second time to "Carnegie Hall", followed by a tour of performances throughout the United States. However, in the evening of the concert, for unknown reasons, Weisbord refused to go on stage, cancelled his tour and returned to Europe, interrupting his success abruptly. In future years Weisbord continued to perform in Europe, visited Palestine several times and even signed a recording contract (he recorded only three works during his life), but his career was never revived. He passed his last years in an apartment in Brooklyn, anonymously, until in 1991, after years of not playing, he died alone. This archive includes: · About 30 large studio photographs of Weisbord (nine of them in an exceptionally large format, approx. 35X45 cm), two of them signed and dedicated in his handwriting. · Five albums with more than 800 photographs of Mischa and of his family members, including photographs of Mishca as a child, photographs of his family members, studio photographs from his period of success (some are signed), photographs from the family's days in China, photographs of Mishca in later years, and other photographs. · Four Master records (78 rpm) issued by Gramophone Company, with the only three works that Weisbord ever recorded during his lifetime. · Copy of a recording contract between Mischa Weisbord and Gramophone Company, dated 28.6.1922. Typewritten and signed by the company's representative Edmund Trevor Lloyd Williams (English). · 20 advertising posters for Mischa's performances during the 1920s and 1930s, among them posters for performances in Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg, London, Berlin, and six advertising posters for performances in Palestine during a visit in 1929 (in "Zion" hall in Jerusalem, in the "Technion" in Haifa, in "Beit HaAm" in Tel-Aviv, and more). Lithographic illustrations of Weisbord appear on four posters. · About 100 programs and prospectuses for Weisbord's performances from the years 1918-1955 (most of them from 1920s-30s), in Europe, the United States and Palestine. · About 40 documents related to the professional career of Weisbord: contracts, performances time tables, entry visas to various countries, letters of recommendation and letters with complaints, a "thank you letter" from the Palmach "information department" following a performances for soldiers during the Independence War, and more. · Three early diaries handwritten by Weisbord (Russian) from the years 1925, 1927 and 1930. · About 10 letters and postcards in Weisbord's handwriting, sent to his mother and sister Sonia between the years 1933 and 1965. · About 50 autograph letters, sent to Weisbord by family members during the years 1922-23, a

Auction archive: Lot number 114
Auction:
Datum:
10 Aug 2018
Auction house:
Kedem Auction House Ltd.
King George st. 58
9242209 Jerusalem
Israel
office@kedemltd.com
+972 (0)77 5140223
+972 (0)2 9932048
Beschreibung:

An archive including more than one thousand letters, documents, posters, photographs, diaries, records and other items, from the estate of the violinist Mischa Weisbord. Various places in Europe, USA, China and Palestine, 1910s to the 1980s (most items are from the 1920s to the 1940s). German, French, Russian, English, Hebrew and other languages. Mischa Weisbord (1907-1991) was a Jewish-Russian violinist who was highly successful in the first decades of the twentieth century and was named by his admirers the "New Paganini". Weisbord started to play the violin when he was three years old. His father, Alexander, who was a violinist, discovered his son's great talent right away and sent him to study in St. Petersburg with the violinist Leopold Auer. In 1917, when the communist revolution broke out, the family had to immigrate to China, and from there Mischa and his father wandered to Brussels where he studied with the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe and started to perform on stage. His success was rapid. During the 1910s and 1920s Weisbord was declared a child prodigy and was invited to perform throughout Europe. In 1926 he played for the first time in "Carnegie Hall" in New York, and this was before he even turned twenty. The year 1927 was supposed to be his year of exceptional success: Weisbord was invited for the second time to "Carnegie Hall", followed by a tour of performances throughout the United States. However, in the evening of the concert, for unknown reasons, Weisbord refused to go on stage, cancelled his tour and returned to Europe, interrupting his success abruptly. In future years Weisbord continued to perform in Europe, visited Palestine several times and even signed a recording contract (he recorded only three works during his life), but his career was never revived. He passed his last years in an apartment in Brooklyn, anonymously, until in 1991, after years of not playing, he died alone. This archive includes: · About 30 large studio photographs of Weisbord (nine of them in an exceptionally large format, approx. 35X45 cm), two of them signed and dedicated in his handwriting. · Five albums with more than 800 photographs of Mischa and of his family members, including photographs of Mishca as a child, photographs of his family members, studio photographs from his period of success (some are signed), photographs from the family's days in China, photographs of Mishca in later years, and other photographs. · Four Master records (78 rpm) issued by Gramophone Company, with the only three works that Weisbord ever recorded during his lifetime. · Copy of a recording contract between Mischa Weisbord and Gramophone Company, dated 28.6.1922. Typewritten and signed by the company's representative Edmund Trevor Lloyd Williams (English). · 20 advertising posters for Mischa's performances during the 1920s and 1930s, among them posters for performances in Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg, London, Berlin, and six advertising posters for performances in Palestine during a visit in 1929 (in "Zion" hall in Jerusalem, in the "Technion" in Haifa, in "Beit HaAm" in Tel-Aviv, and more). Lithographic illustrations of Weisbord appear on four posters. · About 100 programs and prospectuses for Weisbord's performances from the years 1918-1955 (most of them from 1920s-30s), in Europe, the United States and Palestine. · About 40 documents related to the professional career of Weisbord: contracts, performances time tables, entry visas to various countries, letters of recommendation and letters with complaints, a "thank you letter" from the Palmach "information department" following a performances for soldiers during the Independence War, and more. · Three early diaries handwritten by Weisbord (Russian) from the years 1925, 1927 and 1930. · About 10 letters and postcards in Weisbord's handwriting, sent to his mother and sister Sonia between the years 1933 and 1965. · About 50 autograph letters, sent to Weisbord by family members during the years 1922-23, a

Auction archive: Lot number 114
Auction:
Datum:
10 Aug 2018
Auction house:
Kedem Auction House Ltd.
King George st. 58
9242209 Jerusalem
Israel
office@kedemltd.com
+972 (0)77 5140223
+972 (0)2 9932048
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