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[Antal Dorati, half-length portrait, seated, holding baton and looking at music sheet, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art

[Antal Dorati, half-length portrait, seated, holding baton and looking at music sheet, facing right] — historic photograph
[Antal Dorati, half-length portrait, seated, holding baton and looking at music sheet, facing right]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Antal Dorati, half-length portrait, seated, holding baton and looking at music sheet, facing right], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Antal Dorati, the Hungarian-born conductor, is the subject here, shown seated at half length with a baton in hand and his attention on a sheet of music, turned to the right. The record gives no date, so the photograph's exact year is unknown. Dorati had a long career that took him from Budapest and Europe's opera houses to the United States, where he led orchestras including the Minneapolis Symphony and the Detroit Symphony and later the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. A portrait like this one, centered on his study of the score, captures the working side of a conductor's life rather than the public stage.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,187 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129299

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