The Leroy Anderson Papers 1933-1988 (inclusive)

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The Leroy Anderson Papers 1933-1988 (inclusive)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0061

Music, scrapbooks, and additional materials by and about the American composer Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)

33 boxes (16 linear feet)

eng,

Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

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Anderson, Leroy, 1908-1975

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Leroy Anderson was born on June 29, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His family was musical, and as a boy he studied double bass, organ, and trombone. He continued his musical education at Harvard, where his teachers included Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; he graduated from college in 1929, and earned the M.A. in 1930. In the early 1930s he did additional graduate work in Scandinavian languages at Harvard; he also directed the Harvard Band and held numerous other musical jobs. I...