Dessoff Choirs records 1924-2008

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Dessoff Choirs records 1924-2008

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/18620

The Dessoff Choirs is a Manhattan-based amateur choral group founded by Margarete Dessoff. The choirs encompass both a symphonic choir and a chamber choir, and perform a broad repertory of classical music from Renaissance to contemporary compositions. This collection documents the choirs' administrative activities and performance history through administrative files, correspondence, financial records, programs, and scrapbooks.

12.38 linear feet; 32 boxes

The New York Public Library. Music Division.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316035

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Boepple, Paul, 1896-1970

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Dessoff Choirs

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In 1924, Austrian émigré and musician Margarete Dessoff (1874-1944) and pianist Angela Diller (1877-1968), founder of the Diller-Quaile School of Music, established the Adesdi Chorus of Women's Voices. In 1928, Dessoff created the mixed voice A Cappella Singers of New York. She united these choirs in 1930 as the Dessoff Choirs, and officially incorporated them into a membership organization in 1934. Dessoff was one of the first women to conduct concerts at the major concert venues o...

Dessoff, Margarethe, 1874-1944

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