HALL (Marie, Mrs. Mary Pauline Baring, 1884-1956, Violinist)

Vintage photo by the Rotary Photo Co., signed and inscribed, “Yours sincerely”, showing her in profile, half length, seated wearing a white blouse, holding her violin, with a note in another hand on the verso, addressed to Frank Smith, saying the “Miss Hall is so glad her playing has given you pleasure...”, 5½” x 3½”, postmarked Paddington, 7th May

Hall played for the first time in Prague in November 1902, Vienna in January 1903, and made her London début on 16 February 1903 aged nineteen with Henry Wood at St James's Hall. The demanding programme included Paganini's first concerto, the Tchaikovsky concerto and Henryk Wieniawski's Fantaisie Brillante on themes from Faust. She scored a success in all these places. She made an international concert tour in 1904, playing in Germany, Canada, America and Australia, including an impromptu concert in a large marquee in Fiji with a particularly badly-tuned piano. She made a tour through South Africa in 1910, for which she received £10,000 ($50,000) said at the time to be the largest ever paid to a violinist.

Item Date:  1903

Stock No:  42300      £125

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