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The Bruno Walter papers, ca. 1887-ca. 1966

Title: The Bruno Walter papers ca. 1887-ca. 1966

The Bruno Walter Papers represent the career of the conductor Bruno Walter. The collection contains correspondence (primarily from after his emigration to the United States in 1941) as well as photographs, some books and music, and memorabilia.

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Ratz, Erwin. Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1954-ca. 1955.

Title: Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1954-ca. 1955.

An exchange concerning various matters pertaining to the work of Gustav Mahler, occasioned by Ratz's writing of the entry on Mahler for the German encyclopaedia Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ed. Friedrich Blume. Alma Mahler's response was apparently drafted by her friend F. Charles Adler; see related correspondence under: Adler, F. Charles (Frederick Charles), 1889-1959. Included is an offprint of an essay by Ratz, "Gustav Mahler," published in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (Dec. 1955), bearing what appears to be a partial draft letter, in Alma Mahler's hand, concerning Gustav Mahler's work and possibly addressed to Ratz. For other correspondence from Ratz, see under correspondent: Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 leaves).

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Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft. Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1956-1961, n. d.

Title: Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1956-1961, n. d.

2 letters from Erwin Ratz concern Alma Mahler's status within the recently founded society, as well as materials she might provide and questions she might be able to answer concerning Gustav Mahler's work. In an undated draft letter (after 1951), presumably to Ratz, Alma reminsces about her life with Mahler, especially with respect to his work on his symphonies. An undated fragment of a typed letter tentatively identified as written by Ratz mainly concerns his support of the view (which he took to be Alma Mahler's view at the time) that no attempt should be made to reconstruct Mahler's unfinished tenth symphony in its entirety; he proposes the formation of an international working committee (Arbeitsgemeinschaft) to examine Mahler's drafts and sketches for the symphony. (The first reconstructed performing version of the symphony was produced by the Mahler scholar Deryck Cooke for a BBC broadcast in 1960; see related correspondence under: British Broadcasting Corporation.) 1 item from 1961 is a mailing from the Dutch section of the society, announcing an exhibition being held in the Netherlands in 1960-1961 in honor of the centenary of Mahler's birth and the 50th anniversary of his death. The flyer for the latter exhibition bears extensive annotations by Alma Mahler concerning her gift to Willem Mengelberg of the handwritten score of Gustav Mahler's seventh symphony, and her expectation that the score would be given to the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam upon Mengelberg's death; a draft of 1 letter from her concerns the same matter. See related correspondence on this issue under the correspondents: American League of Authors and Composers from Austria; Bottenheim, S. A. M. (Salomon Adriaan Maria), 1880-1957; and Mengelberg, Willem, 1871-1951. For related correspondence concerning the founding of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, see under correspondents: Wiener Philharmoniker; and Adler, F. Charles (Frederick Charles), 1889-1959. See also other correspondence between Alma Mahler and Ratz about Gustav Mahler's work under: Ratz, Erwin.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (10 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863544 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

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Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection, 1922-1981, (bulk 1930-1980)

Title: Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection 1922-1981 (bulk 1930-1980)

Primarily ms. (holograph scores and sketches) and printed music, writings of Edward Steuermann, and correspondence of Edward and Clara Steuermann. The music includes most of Steuermann's compositions, his arrangements of works by Busoni, Poulenc, Schoenberg, Webern, and various 18th- and 19th-century composers, ms. scores of works by, among others, Hans Eisler, Erich Itor Kahn, Earl Kim, and René Leibowitz, and printed music from the 18th through the 20th centuries, many with Steuermann's annotations. Correspondence, both general and family, includes letters between the Steuermanns and Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ferruccio Busoni, Theodor Adorno, Rudolf and Lorna Kolisch, and René Leibowitz. Writings encompass manuscript and typescript essays by Edward Steuermann, lectures and speeches, program and liner notes, interview transcripts, and letters of recommendation for students and colleagues. Writings by others about Steuermann are also included. Other material includes printed programs, clippings, papers of the Edward Steuermann Memorial Society, financial and legal papers, photographs, and materials acquired by Clara Steuermann between 1974 and 1981 concerning the activities of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

ArchivalResource: circa 1,800 items; 43 boxes; 16 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu004007 View

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1906-1943.

Title: Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1906-1943.

The correspondence, which is mainly addressed to Alma Mahler, documents her long-standing friendship with Schoenberg and support for his work, as well as his affection and regard for her and his engagement with the work of Gustav Mahler; it touches upon diverse aspects of Schoenberg's musical career. Roughly 40% of the correspondence comprises original items, dated from 1920 to 1963; the earlier correspondence, dated 1906 to 1920, exists in the form of typescripts. Topics of the earlier correspondence include Schoenberg's reflections on his own aesthetic in a dramatic text he had written; the merits of his wife, Mathilde, and his hopes that she would be included in invitations from Gustav and Alma Mahler; financial difficulties of and support for Schoenberg, including stipends through the Mahler foundation (in that context, exchanges concerning Richard Strauss's opinion of Schoenberg), the formation of a special fund (Arnold-Schönberg-Fond); mentions of Alma's friend Lilly Lieser; Schoenberg's lecture on Mahler, in 1912, and his comments on performances of Mahler's symphonies; Schoenberg's own current compositions and their performances; his responses to the outbreak and course of the First World War; his conducting of Mahler's adaptation of Beethoven's ninth symphony; his founding of a society for private musical performances (Verein für private Musik-Aufführungen); and Alma's gift to Schoenberg of 2 Mahler manuscripts. Topics of the later correspondence (from 1920 on) include plans for the foundation of a Mahlerbund; Schoenberg's decision to decline the invitation from Kandinsky and Gropius to teach at the Bauhaus; the death of Mathilde Schönberg and, later, Schoenberg's marriage to Gertrud Kolisch; Schoenberg's emigration to the U.S., in 1933; his teaching at UCLA and attempt to help Werfel find a position; performances of and reception of Schoenberg's work in the U.S.; his debate with music critic Olin Downes about Mahler's seventh symphony, as performed by the New York Philharmonic under Mitropoulos, in 1948; and his debate with Thomas Mann concerning Mann's references, in his novel Doktor Faustus, to Schoenberg's composition techique using 12 tones. After 1944 Gertrud Schoenberg takes a greater role in the correspondence, and she continues a friendship with Alma Mahler after Arnold's death. Included are a manuscript of Schoenberg's essay about Gustav Mahler written in 1911, after Mahler's death; a postcard bearing a photograph, apparently of Gertrud Schoenberg, in middle age; and the following newspaper clippings: 2 columns of Downes in the New York Times (1 of which includes Schoenberg's letter to him); the exchange between Schoenberg and Thomas Mann in letters to the editor of the Saturday Review; and various tributes in honor of Schoenberg's 70th birthday, published in the Austro American Tribune.

ArchivalResource: 178 items (268 leaves)

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British Broadcasting Corporation. Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1963.

Title: Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1963.

1 letter is an invitation to Franz Werfel to participate in a broadcast devoted to Austrian culture, with Alma Mahler's draft response on the back; and 1 letter concerns Alma Mahler's request for a copy of a broadcast by her daughter, Anna Mahler. The remaining correspondence concerns a reconstructed version of Gustav Mahler's tenth symphony produced by the Mahler scholar Deryck Cooke, in conjunction with Berthold Goldschmidt, for a broadcast in honor of the centenary of Gustav Mahler's birth. 1 item from Simpson to Ratz was a cover letter enclosing a tape recording of the performance for the archives of the Internationale Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (18 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863009 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View