Darius Milhaud letters to Peter Gradenwitz

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Darius Milhaud letters to Peter Gradenwitz

1962-1968

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SNAC Resource ID: 11641100

Houghton Library

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Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974

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Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 4, 1892. As a child he improvised melodies at the piano and soon took up the violin. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1909, studying the violin with Berthelier, ensemble with Lefèvre, harmony with Leroux, counterpoint with André Gédalge, composition and fugue with Charles-Marie Widor, and conducting with Vincent d'Indy. He received first "accessit" in violin and counterpoint, and second in fugue, winning the Prix Lepaulle for composition. Mil...

Gradenwitz, Peter, 1910-2001

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(b Berlin, Jan 24, 1910; d Tel Aviv, July 27, 2001). Israeli musicologist of German birth. He studied in Freiburg with Wilibald Gurlitt and Berlin with Arnold Schering and Curt Sachs and (from 1934) at the German University of Prague, where he specialized in musicology under Gustav Becking and took his doctorate in 1936 with a dissertation on Stamitz. He was also a composition pupil of Julius Weismann in Freiburg and Josef Rufer in Berlin. He became a freelance lecturer and critic and edited a b...