[ Martin Fischer, German classical musician. ] Fourteen Autograph Letters Signed (all 'Martin'), in English, to Richard Hutchins, giving news of his activities as a viola player under von Karajan at the Berlin Philharmonic.

Author: 
Martin Fischer (b. c. 1931), viola player with the Berlin Philharmonic, husband of soprano Helga Fischer [Richard Hutchins of Waynflete ]
Publication details: 
One dated from Berlin, 27 February 1963. The rest from between 1976 and 1981.
£380.00
SKU: 18020

A total of 50pp., of which 46pp. are 8vo, and 4pp. are 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Some letters also signed on behalf of his wife Helga and their son Andreas. Also present is the first page of a fifteenth letter, dated from Paris, 19 May 1972. An affectionate correspondence, filled with personal and professional news. On 3 August 1978 he writes from St Oswald in Austria of a visit to East Germany: 'Our orchestra played for the first time at Dresden and Leipzig!! It was very touching to play for these German people who don't have the chance to travel abroad and to hear us! For the very first time we were allowed to meet the musicians of the "Staatskapelle Dresden! and the "Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig". They were allowed to give a reception to our orchestra and so we had a rare chance to hehar many details of their way of life as musicians there. All musicians in the world understand each other you know, but this meeting was very satisfying and free of politics.' At the end of the same letter he writes that 'Mr. Karajan intends to play the Verdi "Don Carlos" next April in Salzburg and the "Parsifal" in April 1980. So we have to study these works very soon. We played the Beethoven and the Brahms Symphonies for record, new, and started to play new records with the Brandenbourg concertos".' Also present are a couple of programmes, two envelopes addressed by Fischer to Hutchins, and two black and white photographs of Fischer, both with inscriptions, the first from Lucerne in August 1958, and the second from London on 16 June 1974.