The composer and conductor Leon Kopf holding a musical score Portraits Men

Kopf conducted the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus, New York from 1948-1952

Musicologist and philosopher Albert Schweitzer at a piano with cellist and conductor Pablo Casals Portraits Groups Men

Verso: Handwritten inscription to Martin U. Heiman in grateful appreciation signed Hans Moldenhauer 1/8/60

Juedischer Kulturbund concert conducted by Leo Kopf with volunteer choir and orchestra : Oranienburg Strasse Synagogue, Berlin.

Verso: "Oranienburg Strasse Synagogue, Berlin, c 1934-1935 (Winter). Concert w/ volunteer chorus and orchestral: Kulturbund conductor Leo Kopf. 1st man, front row (soloist) to right of podium is Julis Peissachowisch (changed name) John Hardt (went to Great Neck reform temple as cantor - had been cantor at Prinz Regenteastrasse, Berlin) ; Woman next to man (soloist) to right of podium is alto Paula Lindberg."

Memoirs : Heida Hermanns Holde /

The author's mother Alice Goldschmidt was a gifted piano player, who studied with Carl Maria Breithaupt and became his most talented student. Childhood recollections. Early musical awakening. Outbreak of World War One. Recollections of air raids and scarceness of food. Inflation and political instability in post-war Germany. Piano lessons by her mother from an early age. Heida made her debut at age fourteen with the Wiesbaden Symphony under the conductor Carl Schuricht, who became a close mentor and friend. Close relationship to her mother, who had a great influence on her professional career. Heida had a number of outstanding teachers, among them Artur Schnabel, Karl Leimer and Egon Petri. Heida was accepted as a student of Petri at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Berlin, where she studied between 1922-1925. Salon at her aunt's house with guests such as the playwright Georg Kaiser and Siegfried Wagner. Her sister Elsie received her Ph.D. in economics and moved to Berlin as well. Heida graduated from the "Hochschule" in 1925. Soon after she won an international piano competition in Berlin. Engagements with various conductors such as Max Fiedler and Otto Klemperer. Private lessons with Arthur Schnabel and Carl Friedberg, the co-founder of Juilliard. Due to occasional experiences of antisemitism during her music career Heida decided to change her name from Goldschmidt to Hermanns. Position at the "Hoch Conservatory" in Frankfurt. Encounter with the music critic Artur Holde, Heida's future-husband. Engagement and wedding in 1932. Move to Berlin.

Visionary Portrait.

The expressionist head of a young man emerges from the dark shadows. His face is a long oval, with full lips and strongly flared nostrils, framed by black hair and small black beard.