Arnold Schoenberg letters 1946-1949

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Arnold Schoenberg letters 1946-1949

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An Austrian composer, Arnold Schoenberg came to the United States in 1933 and became an American citizen in 1941. Kurt List was an Austrian-American composer also active in music criticism and in the sound recording business. 4 letters to Kurt List and 1 letter to Nathan Broder which was enclosed in a letter to List. Typescript with emendations and signatures in ink. 1 letter to List has no signature and may be incomplete.

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The New York Public Library. Music Division.

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Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old; composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal compositions, and in his Opus 25 Piano S...

Broder, Nathan

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An American musicologist and editor, Nathan Broder was born in New York in 1905 and died there in 1967. From the guide to the Nathan Broder papers, ca. 1932-1974, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) ...

List, Kurt, 1913-1970.

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