Virtuoso Pianist Carte de Visite
Carte-de-Visite, Signed.
Bath: H.N.King.
Price: $150.00
About the item
Photographic carte de visite, 61 x 103 mm. 1 vols. Virtuoso Pianist Carte de Visite. Signed by Thalberg at lower margin on front. Label from Reilly, Dublin on rear, under the English coat of arms and the note "NEGATIVE KEPT, copes may be always had" Signed "Mr Thalberg" in pencil at top left, "79" written in blue pencil, and "R82a" written in pencil at lower left.
Item #316832
Sigismund Thalberg (1812-1871) was a composer and distinguished pianist. Rumored to the be the illegitimate son of Prince Moritz Dietrichstein and Baroness Maria Julia Wetzlar von Plankenstern, his birth certificate lists his parents are Joseph Thalberg and Fortunée Stein.
Thalberg was a young prodigy pianist and toured in America in addition to Europe. He was also one of the most popular composers of the 19th century, whose work influenced many others writing at the time.
