Austrian company “Scala Record” was named in honor of the famous La Scala Opera House in Milan, the façade of which is depicted on the label. The owner of “Scala Record” was Sigmund Weiss (Siegmund Weiß) whom we can consider as a pioneer of the Austrian recording industry. The company had close relationships with German ”Dacapo” for which it made recordings in the Viennese concert hall and Italian ”Fonotipia” that marketed it in England from 1911 to 1919. Unfortunately the Russian history is unknown to the author, but there is no doubt that such exists. The proof is the record of famous Russian singer, the actress of the Petersburg Mariinsky Imperial Theatre M.N.Kuznetsova-Benois (see ”Maria Record”), performing “Lisa’s Aria” from P.I.Tchajkovski opera “Queen of Spades” and a romance “The Night, the Love, and the Moon”, that held in the Russian State Archive of Phonodocuments (RGAFD), as well as record with romances performed by Alexander Bragin in the collection of Vladimir Timokhov (Moscow).
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