Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Programs Music Unsigned Pianists singers John Charles Thomas

singers John Charles Thomas

Bulgarian bass (1920-1988)

The date of the composition of "Vesennyaya rasputitsa" [Spring Thaw] has been given as 1953

probably trimmed from a larger original size

Forst, Grete - Signed Photograph in Role Programs Music Unsigned Pianists singers John Charles ThomasAustrian soprano (1878 1942) of Jewish origin, whose career developed during the early 1900s, then became a concert singer and teacher before her tragic murder during the Nazi Holocaust at a concentration camp in Belorussia near Minsk in 1942. Signed postcard photograph, shown in role, dated in Vienna in 1905. Her real handwritten signature is at the top of the photo, with an additional printed signature on the bottom right. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5