Lot of nine vintage photos of noted concert pianists, ranging in size from 7 x 9 to 8 x 10, each signed in ink or fountain pen by the pictured piano player, the majority inscribed: Webster Aitken, Robert Casadesus, Oscar Levant, Mischa Levitzki, Josef Lhevinne, Arthur Loesser and Beryl Rubinstein, Egon Petri, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Artur Schnabel. In overall very good to fine condition, with an area of loss to the top edge of the Rachmaninoff.
From the autographed portrait collection of Harry Friedgut, the first managing director of the New York City Center of Music and Drama. A champion of New Jersey’s musical arts, Friedgut also served as the first managing director of the Griffith Music Foundation and as the Vice President and Business Manager of the Essex County Symphony Society, through which he directed the Town Hall series and organized the very successful summer stadium concerts.
