August Wilhelmj CDV photo Edward O'Conner Terry violin violinist actor

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For sale I have an original CDV photo of violinist August Wilhelmj.  The reverse has a CDV photo of actor Edward O'Conner Terry.  Unusual!  The photos are affixed to opposite sides of a sheet of stiff yellow paper with their names printed below their photos.  Photos are 2.25 x 3.5 inches and in excellent condition.  The backing paper is 2 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches and has some mild waviness.  USPS Priority Mail insured.
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August Emil Daniel Ferdinand Wilhelmj
(
German pronunciation:
[vɪlˈhɛlmi]
vil-HEL-mee
; 21 September 1845 in
Usingen
– 22 January 1908 in
London
) was a German
violinist
and teacher.
[1]
Wilhelmj was considered a
child prodigy
; when
Henriette Sontag
heard him in 1852 at seven years old, she said, "You will be the German
Paganini
".
[2]
In 1861,
Franz Liszt
heard him and sent him to
Ferdinand David
with a letter containing the words "Let me present you the future Paganini!".
[3]
His teachers included: Ferdinand David, for the violin,
Moritz Hauptmann
, for
music theory
and
composition
, and
Joachim Raff
for composition.
[1]
A personal friend of
Wagner
, he led the violins at the
première
of
Der Ring des Nibelungen
in
Bayreuth
in 1876. He visited Australia in 1881, playing in the old Freemasons' Hall, but though appreciated by those who attended his concerts, their number was not sufficient to make the tour a financial success. It was not until introduced to London audiences by
Jenny Lind
in 1886 that Wilhelmj became a "
household name
".
[4]
He has become famous for his late nineteenth century arrangement of the second
movement
of
J. S. Bach
's
Orchestral Suite No. 3
for violin and
piano
, known as
Air on the G String
[2]
and for his re-orchestration of the 1st movement of
Niccolò Paganini
's Violin Concerto No.1 in D major Op. 6 (1883/1884).
[5]
From 1894 on he was a Professor of violin at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
. Among his pupils were American violinist
Nahan Franko
, Canadian musician
Donald Heins
, and the Australian conductor
Aylmer Buesst
.
[1]
Wilhelmj owned a
Stradivari
1725 violin from 1866 until his retirement, which later came to be known by his name.
[6]
Another known violin was made by
Giovanni Francesco Pressenda
1843 (Ex Wilhelmj) His 1785
Guadagnini
was later owned (as "ex-Wilhelmj") by
Jack Liebeck
.
[7]
Wilhelmj's sister-in-law was composer and singer
Maria Wilhelmj
.
Edward O'Connor Terry
(10 March 1844 – 2 April 1912) was an English actor, who became one of the most influential actors and comedians of the
Victorian era
. Terry was born in London, allegedly the illegitimate son of
Feargus O'Connor
, Irish
Chartist
leader and advocate of the land plan. The younger Terry made his debut in 1863 as Wormwood in
The Lottery Ticket
. He began his stage career in small companies in the provinces playing in Shakespeare with the young
Henry Irving
and sometimes in pieces employing his singing talents.
[1]
In 1867, Terry played for a season at London's
Surrey Theatre
in both comedy and drama. Between 1868 and 1875, he was the leading comedian at the
Royal Strand Theatre
in London. He reached the peak of his popularity after he joined
John Hollingshead
's company at the
Gaiety Theatre, London
in 1876, starring in the
musical burlesques
produced there during the next eight years.
[1]
With
Nellie Farren
,
Kate Vaughan
and
E. W. Royce
, he made the fortune of this house, his eccentric acting and singing creating a style which had many imitators.
[2]
Some of the roles in which he appeared there included Mephistopheles in
Little Doctor Faust
(1878).
In 1887 he went into
management
, opening
Terry's Theatre
,
[2]
built on the site of the old
Coal Hole
public house and music hall on the Strand. There, he produced and starred as Dick Phenyl in
Arthur Wing Pinero
's
Sweet Lavender
, which was perhaps his greatest success, running for 670 nights. He then revived Pinero's
The Magistrate
and
The Times
. In subsequent years, he was only occasionally seen at his own theatre and made many tours in the British provinces and in Australia, North and South America, South Africa and India.
[2]
He returned to Terry's in 1890, producing and starring in
King Kodak
,
The Blue Boar
and several other notable productions. Terry brought four plays to New York in 1904. In this, his only
Broadway
engagement, he and his
touring company
played the former Princess Theatre on West 29th St. for eight weeks from December 1904 to February 1905, in
The House of Burnside
,
Sweet Lavender
,
Love in Idleness
, and
The Passport
.
[3]
Terry married twice; his first marriage was to Ellen Seitz in 1870. He married his second wife, Lady Florence Harris, widow of
Augustus Harris
, in 1904.
[4]
Off the stage, he was a
Freemason
and served on the councils of many charities and of public bodies.
[1]
[2]
Terry died of
neuritis
at his home in
Barnes
, England, at the age of 68.