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Auction 6  9 Oct 2018
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Lot 189
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France/Hungary: Arnold Schoenberg bronze medal by Andras Beck; size: 6.15cm x 6.0cm; weight: 195g. Obverse: Schoenberg to left (based on 1948 photo, displayed here for illustration) with letters of name interspersed. Reverse: female face, wife(?) [Gertrud Bertha [Kolisch]]; Beck's initials top right corner. Schoenberg was Austrian-Jewish composer whose musical approach is considered one of most influential on 20th C. musical thought. The medallist is Hungarian son of Baptised Jewish medallist, Fülop (Philip) Beck; JMM-83-84. Described in 1976 by Friedenburg as "recent work", probably dates to Schoenberg's centennary, 1974.
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