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Berg, Helene, 1885-1976. Correspondence : with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1926-1964.

Title: Correspondence : with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1926-1964.

With regard to the 2 letters from Alban Berg, the letter addressed to Werfel (photocopy), in 1926, concerns Werfel's play Paulus unter den Juden; and the letter addressed to Alma Mahler (typescript) mainly concerns the departure of Clemens Krauss as director of the Vienna State Opera, in 1934. Alma's draft letter to Helene Berg (dating from 1960 or later) concerns her claims for restitution of property in postwar Austria. All of the remaining correspondence comprises items from Helene Berg addressed to Alma, breaking down chronologically as follows: 28 items dated ca. 1927 to 1935 (1 undated item might be from before 1927); 15 items dated 1936 to 1946; and 27 items dated 1947 to 1964. Also included are the following: a postcard bearing a photograph of Alban Berg; 1 journal article by Hans Ferdinand Redlich, "Der Symphoniker Alban Berg: Die Entstehungsgeschichte der 'Drei Orchesterstücke' op. 6 und ein Symphonie-Plan," published in Österreichische Musikzeitschrift around 1953; and 2 publications from George Perle concerning the Alma Mahler-Helene Berg correspondence in the period 1927 to 1937. Both of Perle's articles are dedicated precisely to the correspondence held in this collection; however, his statements about the scope of the correspondence are incorrect (he was under the mistaken impression that the correspondence collected here ended in 1937). Of Perle's 2 publications, 1 article in German, in Österreichische Musikzeitschrift (Jan 1980), gives extensive excerpts from the letters in the period he covers (1927-1937); and 1 article in English, in The International Alban-Berg Society Newsletter (Fall 1978), gives English-language summaries of the identical excerpts.

ArchivalResource: 76 items (134 leaves)

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Berg, Alban, 1885-1935. [Nichts ist gekommen ; Hier ist Friede / Alban Berg].

Title: [Nichts ist gekommen ; Hier ist Friede / Alban Berg]. [1912?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([24] p.) ; 40 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79681037 View

Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-circa 1990

Title: Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress circa 1000-circa 1990

The archives consist primarily of music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings. They span years from the Middle Ages to the present, and include documents of composers, musicians, and literary figures, among others. The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, and many others. Also included is historically important correspondence, such as letters of Metastasio and Handel. Some composers (Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, for example) are represented by numerous manuscripts. A sample of other composers, musicians, and literary figures that are represented by both music and nonmusical materials includes George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner, Charles Burney, Feruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Hermann Hesse, György Ligeti, Federico Garca Lorca, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 131 boxes; 206 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003012 View