Author: COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS
Title: Contemporary Representatives of Music and Singing.
Description: 1889. Composite albumen photograph on card with printed title, 240 x 275 mm. 36 portraits, reduced from cabinet photographs, of famous musicians of the day. Includes a portrait of Josef Hoffman [at age 13] a musical prodigy who elicited comparisons with a young Mozart and Medelssohn > he was probably the first pianist of note to record on Edison's phonograph. Also included is Otto Hegner [at age 12], another child prodigy, who like Hoffman, undertook extensive concert tours in North America.

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