Can someone please identify this musician...

[nyr134]

This signed photo was found among others of famous classical musicians who appeared in Philadelphia in the 1920s and 1930, but I do not know who he is and I cannot read the signature.  Can someone help?  

Thanks in advance.

[argon38 · Accepted solution]

Willem Mengelberg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Mengelberg 

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Willem+Mengelberg%22&client=firefox-b-d&hl=en-US&source=lnms&tbm=... 

[argon38]

Dedicated to Schima Kaufman, who wrote a book about Mendelssohn but doesn't otherwise seem to have been very notable:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&biw=1440&bih=825&ei=RPK2X_rBCMOX8gLelJTgAg&q=%22sch... 

[argon38]

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@argon38 wrote:

Dedicated to Schima Kaufman, who wrote a book about Mendelssohn but doesn't otherwise seem to have been very notable:

I am sorry, ignore that link - I misspelled his surname as "Kaufmann" in the Google search. Use this instead:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&biw=1440&bih=825&ei=n_K2X_6NO4bXgQbM05PYCg&q=%22sch... 

[sonomabarn67]

But may be as good as it gets for the die-hard Mengelberg/Kaufman collector!

[argon38]

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@sonomabarn67 wrote:

But may be as good as it gets for the die-hard Mengelberg/Kaufman collector!

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😀

[argon38]

I wonder if Schima Kaufman was Jewish? If so it would be an interesting biographical angle, since Mengelberg seems to have had some odious Nazi sympathies.

[nyr134]

Many thanks to you for that answer.

[nyr134]

I am finding out a bit more about Schima Kaufman - he was also a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.