BRONISLAW HUBERMAN - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: GREVILLE T.S. STEVENS - HFSID 224562

BRONISLAW HUBERMAN, CO-SIGNED BY: GREVILLE STEVENS
The highly talented violinist credited with establishing the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra during the beginnings of World War II signs his name, signature of cricketer Greville Stevens also attached. Extremely rare!
Signature: "Bronislaw Huberman" and on verso: "GTS Stevens", both in pencil. 6x3 signature, overall size 7x4¼. Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947) was a Jewish Polish violinist. In his youth he was a pupil of Mieczyslaw Michalowicz and Maurycy Rosen at the Warsaw Conservatory, and of Isidor Lotto in Paris. In 1892, at the age of ten, he studied under Joseph Joachim in Berlin. In the 1920s and early 1930s, Huberman toured around Europe and North America with the pianist Siegfried Schultze and performed on the most famous stages in New York, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, and other major cities. Over the course of many years, the duet Huberman-Schultze were regularly invited in private by European Royal Families. Countless recordings of these artists were done during that period at the "Berliner Rundfunk" and unfortunately destroyed during the Second World War. Huberman is also remembered for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Palestine Philharmonic) in 1936 and thus providing refuge from the Third Reich for nearly 1,000 European Jews. Huberman recruited leading Jewish musicians from Europe, showing "the prescience to realize that far more than a new job was at stake for these artists." The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius violin which bears his name was stolen and recovered twice during the period in which Huberman owned the instrument. The second time it was stolen was in 1936 from his dressing room either by New York nightclub musician Julian Altman or a friend of his. Altman kept the violin for the next half century and confessed to stealing it on his deathbed. It is now owned by violinist Joshua Bell, who purchased it for just under 4 million dollars. Greville Thomas Scott Stevens (1901-1970) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Middlesex, Oxford University and England. He captained England in one Test match, which was lost to South Africa in 1927 or 1928. Stevens was among the five schoolboys chosen as Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918 when he was attending University College School. In an inter-house match in May 1919 he made 466 not out and took 14 wickets, all in a single day. On his first-class debut a few days later he took 10 wickets for Middlesex against Hampshire at Lord's. He was immediately selected to play for the Gentlemen, also at Lord's. He was a right-handed batsman. Toned. Edges irregular. Pencil note (unknown hand) on top right of signature. Ink note (unknown hand) on top edge. Verso has mounting residue and remnants of more items previously attached. Ink notes (unknown hand) throughout. Otherwise, fine condition.