BOOTH, Margery Autographs Singers Lot violist Hermann Voss

violist Hermann Voss

Beethoven Symphony nr 9

signed on first page by pianist Materassi and Dallapiccola on verso

Celebrated Austrian violinist and conductor (b

BOOTH, Margery Autographs Singers Lot violist Hermann VossEnglish soprano (1906 1952), who married a German man, emigrated to Germany and became a British spy during World War II. She met Hitler and eventually was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo for being a spy, ended up imprisoned in a British war camp, where she sang for prisoners. Signed postcard photograph, shown as herself, inscribed and dated in 1932. Photo by Becker and Maass photographers, Berlin. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5 inches, in excellent