Musicians

most including separate prints of both hands, some also with photographic negative prints, collected by the palmist Marianne Raschig mainly in 1924-1926, including

1) composers: Mascagni (both hands signed, with the negative prints used in Raschig's 1931 book), Stravinsky (right hand, unsigned, with the negative print), Schreker (both hands signed in pencil), Oscar Straus (left hand signed), Pfitzner (right hand signed), Max von Schillings (right hand signed), Emmerich Kálmán (both hands, signed), Friedrich Hollaender



2) conductors: Otto Klemperer (right hand signed), Furtwängler (right hand, unsigned),  Erich Kleiber (right hand signed, and the negative print used in 1931), Bruno Walter (both hands signed), Karl Muck, Siegfried Ochs, Leo Blech, Willy Hess, Victor Hollaender, Werner Richard Heymann, Eduard Künneke, Willy Rosen (who died in Auschwitz),



3) pianists: Artur Schnabel (both hands signed in 1930, and another right-hand print treated to make the negative print used in 1931),  Edwin Fischer (both hands signed), Claudio Arrau (left hand signed in 1925), Frits Heitmann, Moritz Maer-Mahr,



4) violinists and other instrumentalists: Bronislaw Hubermann (both hands signed, 1926), Hugo Becker, Emil Bohnke, Karl Klingler, Jean Gilbert, Artur Guttmann,



and many singers: Caruso (right-hand negative print), Beniamino Gigli (both hands signed, with the negative print), Frida Leider (both hands signed, with the negative print), Lauritz Melchior (both hands signed with the negative), Richard Tauber (both hands signed, with the negative),  Leo Slezak, Pasquale Amato (2, both signed), Meta Seinemeyer, Margarete Siems, Maria Ivogün (both hands and the negative print used in 1931), Friedrich Schorr, Heinrich Schlusnus, Dusolina Giannini, Jacques Urlus, Eva von der Osten, Käthe Erholz, Anni Frind, Rudolf Laubenthal, Juan Luria (who died in Auschwitz)



over 300 items in all, 4to, in 2 ring-backed folders, Berlin, mainly 1923-1930, creasing and staining to a few items, a fuller listing is available for consultation on request

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Of the circumstances surrounding Caruso's hand-print - to take just one of nearly 300 in this astonishing collection - Marianne Raschig wrote the following in her 1931 book Hand und Persönlichkeit. Einführung in das System der Handlehre, (Hamburg, 1931):

...Caruso summoned me to Stuttgart for a consultation in the autumn of 1912 on the occasion of a performance of his. I succeeded in taking his hand-print, although this was not easy on account of his agitated state. The advice which I was then (nine years before his death) able verbally to give him I later also set down in writing. However, he did not take it as a warning - if he had, perhaps his life would have ended less painfully and disastrously [translation]... 

Please also see lots 316, 348, 391 & 481.