Autograph postcard signed,in German with translation, to Frau Dr A. Geissmar (Erich, 1890-1956, Austrian Conductor and Composer)

sending their "warmest greetings from a most attractive spring season, where once again we have had the greatest success imaginable, Beethoven's Ninth and a splendid evening of Viennese music are now behind us but we've still got the Missa Solemnis and the Mozart Requiem...", 1 side postcard with autograph address and picture of Buenos Aires on the verso, postmarked Argentina, 21st September Frau Geissmar's husband Leopoldus was a lawyer in Mannheim, where he ran a well-known series of concerts. He owned a Stradivarius, which his daughter Berthe, 1892-1949, brought out under her arm when she and her mother escaped from the Nazis in the 1930s. See Berthe's 'The Baton and the Jackboot, Recollections of Musical Life', London, 1947 (published in New York as 'Two Worlds of Music'). Kleiber is widely considered to be one of the legendary conductors of the 20th century. He was director of the Berlin State Opera for 1903 to 1915 when he was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany.