Vera Brodsky Lawrence papers 1863-1991 1970-1984

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Vera Brodsky Lawrence papers 1863-1991 1970-1984

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20324

The Vera Brodsky Lawrence Papers document her second career as a music historian and book editor, and include select items from her early years as a pianist.

19.5 linear feet; 38 boxes

The New York Public Library. Music Division.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316456

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American Music Collection

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Triggs, Harold, 1900-

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Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917

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Scott Joplin was born in either  1867 or 1868 or November 24, 1868 in Texarkana, Texas to a former slave and laborer and a house cleaner. Joplin received most of his music education from Julius Weiss in Texas. As a late teen he began working as a traveling musician and eventually moved to Missouri in 1894. There he became a success. While in Sedalia, Mo. local businessman John Stark purchased the rights to “Maple Leaf Rag.” When it was published in 1899, it became a sensation, and all 10,000 co...

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky

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Vera Brodsky was born on July 1, 1909, in Norfolk, Virginia. She studied piano in New York City under Alexander Lambert, and played concerts in Europe before the age of twenty. Her first radio broadcast was a live recital from Aeolian Hall, in New York on February 6, 1925. Other early performances included recitals with the Roth Quartet, which occurred while she was a student at Juilliard (1929-1932). She was well known in the 1930s and 1940s for her duo-piano playing with Harold Tr...