Serge Koussevitzky Archive 1920-1976 (bulk 1924-1951)

Handy, W. C., 1873-1958

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W. C. Handy, also known as William Christopher Handy (born Florence, Alabama, November 16, 1873-died March 25, 1958, New York, New York), known as the "Father of the Blues," is credited with helping popularize blues music. In 1896, he joined W. A. Mahara's Minstrels, as its trumpeter-bandleader and began a theatrical production that featured African American music. In the early 1900s, he started writing his own music with the first published commercial blues song "Memphis Blues," which became a ...

Balogh, Ernő, 1897-1989

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Composed 1943. First performance in a broadcast, New York, 11 June 1943, WQXR Orchestra, the composer as pianist, Milton Wittgenstein flautist, D. Webber clarinetist. From the description of Pastorale and capriccio, Op. 21 / Ernö Balogh. [1943] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42881272 Hungarian pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 23 March 1958, to Mrs. [Carmen S.] Savoca, 1977, Oct. 23. (Unknown). Wo...

Kerr, Harrison, 1897-1978

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Dance Sonata composed 1938, for 2 pianos, timpani and percussion; first performed at Bennington College Festival, August 1938. Orchestrated 1940 as Dance Suite; first performed Rochester, 27 October 1942, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dance suite / Harrison Kerr. [1940] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52569871 Material derived from the opera The Tower of Kel, composed 19...

Armitage, Merle, 1893-1975

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Merle Armitage was born in 1893 on a farm outside Mason City, Iowa. He had many jobs over the years, beginning as a train engineer before taking a job as a graphic designer for the Packard Motor Car Company. His next career was as a set designer for New York theaters, which later turned into a long stint in the theater promotion business. Armitage also managed various performers and their concert tours. He co-founded the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association and was its business manager, and also ...

Zederbaum, Vladimir 18..-19..

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Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951

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Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian-born conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949. Koussevitzky's appointment as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) was the beginning of a golden era for the ensemble that would continue until 1949. Over that 25-year period, he built the ensemble's reputation into that of a leading American orchestra. ...

Koussevitzky, Olga, 1901-1978

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Olga Naumoff Koussevitzky was the widow of conductor Serge Koussevitzky. The pair married in 1947. Olga immigrated to America in 1929 to be secretary for the conductor and his wife, Natalie, who was her aunt. Seven years after the death of the aunt, the conductor married the niece....

Koussevitzky, Natalie, 1880-1942

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Natalie Ushkova, the daughter of an extremely wealthy tea merchant, was the second wife of Russian American conductor, Serge Koussevitzky. When she died in 1942, and Serge Koussevitzky created the Koussevitzky Music Foundations in her honor....

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 1891-1967

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Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967), neighbor and life-long friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, served under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as Conservation Commissioner of the State of New York from 1929 to 1933. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Agriculture, and member of the Taconic State Park Commission. Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgenthau served as Chairman of the Federal Farm Board from March to May 1933, as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration from May to No...

Graham, Martha, 1894-1991

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Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who created over thirty-five designs for Graham works; lighting designer Jean Rosenthal; costume designer Halston; and many composers...

Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974

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Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893, in Berlin, where her father, Peter Cortelyou Cornell, a distant relation of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, was studying medicine. Later in 1893, Peter Cornell and his wife Alice Gardner Plimpton returned to their native city, Buffalo, New York with their daughter, Katharine. Her father practiced medicine in Buffalo, for several years, but he found his time and interest increasingly taken up with the family hobby. His father, S. Douglas C...

Lake, Mayhew, 1879-1955

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Babin, Victor, 1908-1972

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Victor Babin was a composer and pianist born in Moscow in 1908. In 1933 he married one of Artur Schnabel's piano pupils Vitya (Victoria) Vronsky with whom he performed as a duo-piano team all over the world. They moved to the United States in 1937. Babin became an American citizen, joined the U.S. Army and continued to give concerts during the Second World War. He taught or administered at the Aspen Music School, the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, the Cleveland Institute of Music (where he ...

Stevens, Julie, 1916-1984

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Julie Stevens (1916-1984) was an American actress of stage, film, television and radio. She is best remembered for playing the part of Helen Trent on the long-running radio serial "The Romance of Helen Trent." Stevens played the role for sixteen years, beginning in 1944. Born Harriet Foote in St. Louis, MO, Ms. Stevens' birth date was November 23rd. After attending what is now Columbia College in St. Louis, MO she came to New York and made her Broadway debut by replaci...

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Honegger, Arthur

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Epithet: Swiss-French composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0003b9 Swiss composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris] June 18 1923, to M.H. Kling at [J. & W.] Chester, 1923 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666421 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Calvados, [ca. 26 July 1938], to [Jacques Larmanjat], 1938 July 26....

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

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French composer and music teacher. From the description of [Letter] 1977 October 27 [to] Dear Mr. Wilson 1977. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 755584222 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was a Parisian composer, music teacher and conductor. From the description of Nadia Boulanger American music scores, 1925-1937 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612769739 French composer and composition teacher. From the d...

Scherchen, Hermann, 1891-1966

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German conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Leipzig?] Jan. 15 1921, to Herr Dünnebeil [at Breitkopf & Härtel], 1921 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668850 Scherchen left Germany in 1933 in voluntary protest of the new Nazi regime. Later that year he organized what he termed a musical workshop (Arbeitstagung) in Strassburg, intended especially for young musicians, and with the additional intention of providing a forum for perfo...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Truman, Margaret, 1924-2008

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Margaret Truman Daniel (1924-2008) was born in Independence, Missouri. She is the daughter of President Harry S. and Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Truman. She married E. Clifton Daniel, Jr. (a newspaper editor), on April 21, 1956. After graduating from George Washington University in 1946, she embarked on a career as a coloratura soprano. She was also a successful radio personality as co-host of the program Weekday with Mike Wallace. Later, Truman became the successful author of a series of murde...

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...

Lieberson, Goddard, 1911-1977

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. Goddard Lieberson (1911-1977) Lieberson was in 1945 Director of Masterworks Department at Columbia Recording Corporation and in 1954 Executive Vice-President of Columbia Records Inc. (both of those entities were subsidiaries of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.), then president of Columbia Records, and composer by training. In the 1940s, he introduced to the American public the long-playing records of classical repertoire and Bro...

Schuller, Gunther, 1925-2015

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The son of German immigrants, Gunther Schuller was born in New York on November 22, 1925. His professional music career began as a horn player, performing with the American Ballet Theater, as principal horn in the Cincinnati Symphony (1943-1945) and with the Metropolitan Opera from 1945-1959. Schuller's jazz career also began as a French horn player on Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool recording (1949-1950). As an educator, Schuller first taught at the Manhattan School of Music from 1950-1953. Fro...

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

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An American violinist, Yehudi Menuhin was engaged in 1947 by Two Continent Pictures to appear and play in a projected moving picture named Delirium and an associated short movie; and later for a series of short films. He suggested changes in the script and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto for Delirium, but the picture apparently was not completed, nor were the short films although 22 reels were recorded and photographed. From the description of Letters and other papers relating to ...

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In 1782 the Continental Congress directed Benjamin Franklin, the American minister to France, to negotiate a convention concerning the exchange of consuls. The convention was signed by Franklin and the French foreign minister, the comte de Vergennes, on 29 July 1784, but rejected by Congress because it did not adhere to the scheme Congress had established. Congress directed Franklin's successor, Thomas Jefferson, to renegotiate, and on 14 November 1788 he and Vergennes's successor, the comte de ...

Eisenberg, Maurice, 1900-1972

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Epithet: writing from London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x00012a ...

Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973

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Catalan violoncellist. From the description of Letters, 1952 July 29 - 1971 Sept. 15, to Milly Stanfield. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378665 From the guide to the Letters, 1952 July 29 - 1971 Sept. 15, to Milly Stanfield, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Catalan cellist, conductor, pianist, and composer. From the description of Autograph note signed on his visiting card, dated : [n.p., Prades?], 6 January 1939, to Mr. ...

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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George Gershwin was a composer and pianist; his best-known works are Rhapsody in Blue (1924), An American in Paris (1928), "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor....

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960

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Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers, whose musicals include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music....

Fiedler, Arthur, 1894-1979

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Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was an American conductor known for his association with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Boston Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the United States. Fiedler was sometimes criticized for over-popularizing music, particularly when adapting popular songs or editing portions of the classical repertoire, but he kept performances informal and sometimes self-mocking ...

Barenboim, Daniel

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Epithet: pianist and conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x00039a ...

Smith, Carleton Sprague

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Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-Carmen

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Rubinstein, Artur, 1887-1982

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Polish pianist, later naturalized American. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [New York], 3 February 1969 and 12 January 1970, to Mrs. [John C.] Hughes, 1969 Feb. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270676480 Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000624.0x0002e6 ...

Huberman, Bronisław, 1882-1947

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Polish violinist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Dec. 10 1942, to Mr. [Dannie] Heineman, 1942 Dec. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666484 Epithet: violinist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000624.0x000145 ...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Cluytens, André

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Oistrakh, David, 1908-1974

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Kleiber, Erich

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Kleiber was an Austrian conductor who became music director at the Berlin State Opera in 1923; he conducted the world premiere of Alban Berg's Wozzeck in 1925. In 1934 he resigned in protest against the Nazi government and emigrated to Buenos Aires, where he continued his conducting career until after the war. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1924. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863654 Austrian conductor. From t...

Cordero, Roque, 1917-2008

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Composed 1939. First performance Panama City, 1942, National Orchestra of Panama, Herbert de Castro conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Capricho interiorano = (Capriccio of the interior) / by Roque Cordero. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51464460 Composed 1945. First performance Panama City, 14 September 1955, National Orchestra of Panama, Roque Cordero conductor. Honorable mention: Reichhold Music Award, Detroit, 1947...

Galindo, Blas

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Composed 1940.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Preludios para orquesta / Blas Galindo. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51970152 ...

Vega, Aurelio de la, 1925-2022

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Aurelio de la Vega was born in La Habana, Cuba, November 28, 1925, educated at De La Salle College, Havana, 1940-1944 (B.A. in Humanities); University of Havana, 1944-1946 (M.A. in Diplomacy); Ada Iglesias Music Institute, Havana, 1951-1958 (M.A. in Musicology, 1956; Ph.D. in Composition, 1958) and studied composition privately with Fritz Kramer in Havana (1943-1946) and Ernst Toch in California (1947-1948). After occupying important positions in his native land (Editorial Secretary of Conservat...

Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963

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Paul Hindemith (born 16 November 1895 in Hanau; died 28 December 1963 in Frankfurt) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. Gertrud Hindemith (born Rottenberg) was the wife of Paul Hindemith; they were married in 1924. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, n. d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863460 ...

Archer, Violet, 1913-2000

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Composed 1941. First performance London, 10 March 1942, British Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra, Adrian Boult conductor. From the description of Britannia, a joyful overture / Violet Archer. 1941. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42695888 Composed 1946. Revised 1956. First performance Austin, Texas, 14 April 1956, University of Texas Symposium Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harrison conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fant...

Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977

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Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) was an American conductor, who led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, American Youth Orchestra, New York City Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra. His career began with studies at the Royal College of Music in 1896 when Stokowski was just 13. He performed as an organist and choral director for several years in England,...

Weeks, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1898-1989

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Edward A. Weeks (1898-1989) was an author, essayist, and editor for the Atlantic Monthly . He was also author of more than 10 books, including: Breaking into Print: an Editor's Advice on Writing (1962); In Friendly Candor [1959]; and Writers and Friends (1981). Weeks opposed censorship and, during the 1920's, served as chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Reform Book Censorship. From the guide to the Edward Weeks Letter to Mrs. Henry Pettit (MS 235), 16 June 1961...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Eban, Abba, 1915-2002

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Abba Solomon Meir Eban (Hebrew: אבא אבן; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He was the second ambassador to the United States and the first Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations. He was also Vice President of the United Nations General Assem...

Hayes, Roland W., 1887-1977

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Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German and Italian. Earlier African-American concert artists were not recorded because in their day recording companies were only interested in a vaudeville type of singer. Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier and in 1939 he recorded with Columbia. Earlier both Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson had recorded from t...

Pons, Lily, 1898-1976

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Alice Joséphine Pons (April 12, 1898–February 13, 1976), known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer, she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Lakmé and Lucia di Lammermoor. In addition to appearing as a guest artist with many opera houses internationally, Pons enjoyed a long association with the Met...

Kostelanetz, André, 1901-1980

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André Kostelanetz (1901-1980) was born in Russia and studied in Petrograd before coming to the USA. He became a successful conductor and arranger, and in 1930 was engaged as conductor for the CBS radio network, beginning a long association with broadcasting and film work. He is credited with popularizing classical music. He made many successful arrangements of light music, using heavily concentrated instrumental sonorities, and his orchestrations had a direct influence on film music of the time...

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963

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Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchestrator and conductor. From the guide to the Robert Russell Bennett papers, 1911-1981, (Music Library) Reiner was born in Budapest in 1888. He graduated from the Budapest Academy of Music in 1908 where he studied with Bela Bartok. Various conducting and directing appointments followed in Budapest and in Dresden, including that of chief conductor of the Royal Opera House in Dresden for 1914-1922. An acquaintan...

Grandjany, Marcel, 1891-1975

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Marcel Grandjany was a French-born American harpist and composer. From the description of Testimonial letters received and other papers, ca. 1920-1929. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608145 From the guide to the Testimonial letters received and other papers, ca. 1920-1929, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) American harpist of French birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5), dated : New York and Paris, 19...

Ginastera, Alberto, 1916-1983

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Argentine composer. From the description of "Los peones de hacienda, del ballet Estancia.", 1947 May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270919811 First performance by the Orquesta del Servicio Oficial de Difusión Radio Eléctrica (SODRE), Montevideo, Uruguay, July 18, 1941, Lamberto Baldi conducting, Hugo Balzo (to whom the work is dedicated) at the piano.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concierto argentino : para piano y orquesta / Alberto E. Gin...

Migot, Georges

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French composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, [n.d.], to an unidentified friend, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582506 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0000fe ...

Messiaen, Olivier

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First performed Dec. 2, 1949 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, conducting; the solo part played by Yvonne Loriod. From the description of Turangalîla-symphonie / Olivier Messiaen. [1946-1948] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 271073216 French composer. From the description of Autograph manuscript signed, dated : Paris, 26 June 1943, 1943 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582366 From the description of Autograph manuscript signed...

Luening, Otto, 1900-1996

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American composer, teacher, conductor, and flutist. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : [New York?], 11 September 1981, to Mr. Allen, 1981 Sept. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874496 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 22 July 1992, to Joseph Chouinard, 1992 July 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270930274 Composer. From the description of Reminiscences of Otto Luening : oral history, 1979. ...

Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 1911-1990

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Composer. From the description of Reminiscences of Vladimir Ussachevsky : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735377 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Vladimir Ussachevsky was born in 1911 in the Russian province of Outer Manchuria, where his father was serving as a career officer in the Russian Army. Ussachevsky's mother performed and gave lessons on the piano, and she became her son's first teacher, initiating his musical ...

Młynarski, Emil, 1870-1935

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Polish conductor, violinist, and composer. From the description of Autograph postcard signed : [n.p., n.d., 1924?], to Breitkopf & Härtel in Berlin, [n.d., 1924?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582554 ...

Jonas, Oswald

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Biography Oswald Jonas, 1897-1978 In 1965 my stepfather Oswald Jonas, then 68 years old, faced a difficult decision. Retired from Roosevelt University in Chicago where he had taught since 1942, he was currently lecturing at the Music Academy in Vienna. Should he settle in Vienna, his original home, or should he return to his adopted country? Many factors were pulling in both directions when a temporary answer came in the form of a...

Zemlinsky, Louise, 1900-1992

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Cabot, Frederick Pickering, 1868-1932

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Judge Frederick Pickering Cabot was the picture of perfect Boston Brahmin. Born in 1868, he was descended from one of New England’s wealthiest families. He would become president of the Harvard Union, President of the Boston Symphony, a regular at the Union Club, no doors were closed to him. But he was probably most remembered and most beloved by generations of poor Boston children for his tireless work advocating for them in his role as judge at the Juvenile Court in the early 1900s....

Dallapiccola, Luigi, 1904-1975

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Luigi Dallapiccola, an Italian composer, wrote Rencesvals, a piece for voice and piano based on three fragments of La Chanson de Roland, for French baritone Pierre Bernac. From the description of Correspondence concerning Rencesvals : Firenze, to Pierre Bernac, Paris, 1945-1946. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122640078 From the guide to the Correspondence concerning Rencesvals : Firenze, to Pierre Bernac, Paris, 1945-1946, (The New York Public Library. Music ...

Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962

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French pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, 14 May 1931, to Mme [Louise] Alvar, 1931 May 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564652 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], 29 December 1906, to an unidentified friend, 1906 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564656 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], 11 October 1907, to an unidentified friend, 1907 Oct. 11. (Unknown)...

Berg, Alban

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Austrian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Trahütten, to an unidentified friend, 1927 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672335 From the description of Autograph postcards signed (2), dated : [Villach?], and Villach [n.d.], to his sister-in-law Steffi Berg, 1907 Sept. 23 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672288 From the description of Autograph and typewritten letter signed (incomplete), dated : [n.p., n.d.], to [Cl...

Newman, Ernest

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Music critic, author. From the description of Papers, 1900-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490535 English writer on music. From the description of Autograph letters signed (16) and typewritten letters signed (4), dated : Liverpool, Birmingham, London [and n.p.], 1900-1921, to Grant Richards, 1900-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582901 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Brimingham, 17 and 24 March 1917, to C. Cop...

Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1886-1954

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Elisabeth Furtwängler was the wife of Wilhelm Furtwängler. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1922-1954. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863316 German conductor, composer, and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Baden-Baden, 9 May [1929], to [Hermann] Scherchen, 1929 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577583 Epithet: conductor and composer Briti...

Villa-Lobos, Heitor, 1887-1959

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Heitor Villa-Lobos (born March 5, 1887, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – died November 17, 1959, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".[1] Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2000 works by his death in 1959. His mu...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. Known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive stature, La Guardia is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history. Though a Republican, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by other part...

Daniel, Erno

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Kodály, Zoltán, 1882-1967

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Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and educationist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and autograph postcards signed (2), dated : Budapest, Paris, London, and Brussels, 1948 and 1950, to Sir Ivor Atkins in Worcester, 1948 June 4 and 1948 June 2 and 1950 Feb. 8 and 1948 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578936 From the description of "Uj esztendőt köszöntő" : autograph manuscript, 1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566555 ...

Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945

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Commissioned by the Basel section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Composed originally as Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 1937. Orchestrated 1940 as this Concerto. First performance London, 14 November 1942, Royal Philharmonic Society, Adrian Boult conductor, Louis Kentner and Ilona Kabos soloists.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra / Béla Bartók. [194-?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record i...

Disney, Walt, 1901-1966

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Walt Disney (born Walter Elias Disney, December 5, 1901, Chicago, Illinois–d. December 15, 1966, Burbank, California), American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. He was a pioneer of the American animation industry, and introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual. As a boy in Chicago, Walt Disney took art classes and got work as a commercial illustrator. He moved...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Ormandy, Eugene

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x0001db Conductor; Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-1980. From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213481085 From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsyl...

Szell, George

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American conductor of Austro-Hungarian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., 1944], to Mr. Little, [1944]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873790 Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000213 ...

Zimbalist, Efrem

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American violinist, composer, and teacher of Russian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 20 March 1917, to Mr. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1917 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679473 Originally composed for William Kapell; the music lost in his fatal airplane accident, 1953. Reconstructed by the composer. First performance New Orleans, 19 February 1959, New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Hilsberg conductor,...

Monteux, Pierre

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Griffes first met the French-born conductor Pierre Monteux in October 1916. When Monteux was appointed the conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1919, he began to program contemporary music, despite the objections of both the orchestra and the public who were accustomed to a German repertory. Griffes' The pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan was premeiered by Monteux and the orchestra in Boston, November 28, 1919, and repeated the following month at New York City's Carnegie Hall, December 4 and ...

Sowerby, Leo

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American composer and church musician. From the description of [Organ symphony. Album leaf] : autograph manuscript, 1951 Mar. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270569572 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Chicago, 13 March 1953, to Joseph Chouinard, 1953 Mar. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270962032 Composed 1926-27. Chicago, 29 March 1929, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Frederick Stock coductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the ...

Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958

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Varèse, Louise, 1890-1989

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Translator; Biographer. Louise Varèse was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1890, daughter of John Lindsay McCutcheon and Mary Louise Taylor. She attended Smith College (class of 1912), leaving in the fall of 1911 to marry Allen Norton. A son, Michael, was born in 1912. She was separated from Norton in 1916, and they were divorced in 1920. In 1922 she married composer Edgard Varèse. Throughout her life she translated works of French authors and poets into English, including Rimbau...

Carter, Elliott

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Composer and writer on music. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Dec. 8, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861514 Commissioned by the Ballet Caravan, 1939. Composed 1939. A suite called "Suite from Pocahontas, ' consisting of 4 excerpts drawn from this ballet and provided with new endings and introductions, received the Juilliard Publication Award, 1940. First performance by the Ballet Caravan, in ...

Druckman, Jacob

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The Jacob Druckman Collection documents the life and career of Jacob Druckman (1928-1996), a Pulitzer-prize winning composer, educator, and organizer of the New York Philharmonic's Horizons series of new music concerts. The collection, assembled by Druckman over the course of his lifetime, with additional material inserted posthumously by his family, includes musical scores, correspondence, clippings, programs, and iconography; the collection's sound recordings are housed in the Rodgers and Hamm...

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0000e1 ...

Schuman, William

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An American composer and educator, William Schuman was instructor at Sarah Lawrence College (1935-45), president of the Juilliard School of Music (1945-1962), director of publications for G. Schirmer (1945-1952), and president of Lincoln Center (1962-1968). In the 1970's he was chairman of the Norlin Foundation and of the MacDowell Colony. He was a founding director of the Charles Ives Society and a member of the board of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Naumburg and K...

Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998

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Epithet: OM, CH, composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000051 English composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Tidebrook, 26 June 1986 to an unidentified recipient, 1986 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873831 British composer. From the description of Sketches for New Year. / Here superseded / Michael Tippett / 1987 [manuscript]. (...

Ligeti, György, 1923-2006

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0000de ...

Del Tredici, David

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Composer. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, Dec. 16, 1996. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905489 American composer. From the description of Final Alice. Album leaf, 1989 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270919796 From the description of Letter, ca. 1972, San Anselmo, California, to Donald C. Kelley. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14761802 ...

Rorem, Ned, 1923-

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Composer and author. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905487 Commissioned by Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California. Composed 1956. First performance La Jolla, California, 5 August 1956, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor. Dedicated to Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Fr...

Foss, Lukas

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Lukas Foss (b. Aug. 15, 1922, in Berlin; d. Feb. 1, 2009, in New York City) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator. From the description of Lukas Foss papers, circa 1926-2000 (bulk 1936-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130018 Composed 1955-58. First performance Pittsburgh, 24 October 1958, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony of chorales : for orchestra : ...

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

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Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was among the most important conductors of the second half of the 20th Century and also the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. His best-known work is the Broadway musical West Side Story; other works include three symphonies, Chichester Psalms, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", the original score for the film On the Waterfront, and theater works including On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and his MASS. Bernstei...

Ansermet, Ernest, 1883-1969

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Swiss conductor. From the description of Document signed, dated : London, 14 June 1921, 1921 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873879 The Orchestre symphonique de Paris was founded in 1929; Calvocoressi prepared the French translation of Boris, eventually for performances in Paris at the Salle Gaveau, 31 December 1935. Cf. Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera. From the description of Letter : to M.D. Calvocoressi, Paris, [between 1929 and 1935] Mar. 20. (Harva...

Rodziński, Artur, 1892-1958

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Artur Rodzinski was born in Spalato, Dalmatia (now Croatia), in 1892. He studied music in Lwów, Poland before taking a law degree in Vienna. While in Austria, Rodzinski studied composition with Joseph Marx and Franz Schreker, conducting with Franz Schalk, and piano with Emil Sauer, a Liszt pupil. Rodzinski started as a choral conductor and then made his conducting debut with Ernani at the Lwów Opera in 1920. Leopold Stokowski invited Rodzinski to visit Philadelphia in 1925. He was a sought-aft...

Casella, Alfredo, 1883-1947

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Italian composer, organizer, pianist, and conductor. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 10 February 1926, to [Charles Copeley Harding?] in London, 1926 Feb. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564213 From the description of Bolero / Casella. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270562160 From the description of Autograph postcard signed signed, dated : [Siena, 17 August 1923?], to Louise Alvar, 1923 Aug. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Schnabel, Artur

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Artur Schnabel was an Austrian pianist and teacher whose performances and recordings made him a legend in his own time and a model of scholarly musicianship to all later pianists. He lived in Berlin from 1900 and was a leading piano teacher at the State Academy of Music in Berlin from 1925 to 1933. Schnabel lived in the United States from 1939 until after World War II, when he returned to Switzerland. He specialized in the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert. As a ...

Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957

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Conductor. From the description of Arturo Toscanini souvenir card, 1952 summer. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501180914 Italian conductor, considered one of the greatest of the early 20th century. Started his career in Italy and spent much of his later years in the United States. From the description of Autograph letter signed, from Toscanini to Mme Emmy Destinn, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872455 Italian conductor. From the descr...

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Heifetz, Jascha, 1901-1987

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Violinist Jascha Heifetz was born on Feb. 2, 1901, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied violin with Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He embarked on an international career in 1912, became an American citizen in 1925, and continued to concertize and record until 1972. He died in Los Angeles on Dec. 10, 1987. From the description of Jascha Heifetz collection, 1802-1987 (bulk 1911-1974). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71055203 Jascha Heifetz, legendary American vio...

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

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Duke Ellington (b. Edward Kennedy Ellington, April 29, 1899, Washington, DC–d. May 24, 1974, New York, NY) was a composer, pianist, and jazz orchestra leader. He began piano lessons at 7 and wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag", in 1914. Ellington became a more serious piano student as a teenager after hearing poolroom pianists in Washington, DC. Ellington moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1920s. He began a regular booking at the Cott...

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...

Harris, Roy, 1898-1979

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Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation for the Rockefeller FIlm Project. Composed as film score 1940-41. First performance (recording for the film) New York, 21 January 1941, Roy Harris conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of One-tenth of a nation / Roy Harris. [1940?]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 226966329 Composed 1949-51. First performance Wilmington, North Carolina, 21 March 1984.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. F...

Petri, Egon

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German pianist of Dutch descent, later naturalized American. From the description of Autograph postal card signed signed, dated : [Berlin, 6 August 1923], to Otto Eckermann, 1923 Aug. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674933 Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000243 ...

Casadesus, Robert‏ (1899-1972).‏

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Composed 1933. First performance Warsaw, April 1934, Walerian Bierdiajew conductor, the composer and his wife Gaby Casadesus soloists. Dedicated to E[mile] R[obert] Blanchet.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto pour 2 pianos et orchestra, op. 17 / Robert Casadesus. [1933] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45205819 French pianist and composer. From the description of "Introduction / et / Polonaise / pour Violoncelle / av...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Gillis, Don, 1912-1978

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Born in Cameron, Missouri on June 17, 1912, Don Gillis moved with his family to Texas in 1930. He went on to have some impact on nearly every institution of higher education in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as well as the University of South Carolina. Gillis studied composition with Don Mixson at Texas Christian University, and then worked as a band director at TCU, a Director of Productions at the WBAP radio station in Fort Worth, a producer for NBC Radio in Chicago, and a producer and script wri...

Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his ...

Louis, Joe, "Brown Bomber", 1914-1981

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Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), known professionally as Joe Louis, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 26 championship fights. The 27th fight, against Ezzard Charles in 1950, was a challenge ...

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972

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In 1915 they founded the first Denishawn school in Los Angeles with the intent of providing students with a diversified dance education. They believed that a dancer should learn all styles of dance rather than concentrating on one form; therefore, they offered classes in ballet, modern, ethnic, and creative dance. Within a few years Shawn and Miss St. Denis had established Denishawn schools throughout the United States. They built up an extensive repertory of spiritual, ethnic, character, and “m...

Thompson, Randall, 1899-1984

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Randall Thompson (1899-1984) was an American composer of three symphonies and numerous vocal works, noted for his choral work. He was a 1920 graduate of Harvard University. He became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music (serving as its director, 1941-1942), the University of Virginia, and Harvard University....

Robins, H. R.

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Aldrich, Putnam

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Gurvich, A. (Abram), 1897-1962

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Guarnieri, M. Camargo

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Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Menuhin, Moshe, 1893-

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Nabokov, Nicolas, 1930-1954

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Leavitt, Donald, 1934-1977

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Golinkin, Mordekhai

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Andrievskii, N.

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Farberman, Harold, 1929-

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Harold Farberman is an American composer. From the description of ALS, [19--} Sep. 16, to Patricia Neway. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652283 From the guide to the ALS, to Patricia Neway, 19--] Sep. 16, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) ...

Abell, Lura

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Par, Alfons

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Brière, Nina

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Kroll, William, 1901-1980

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Pease, James

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Epithet: American singer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x00002b ...

Berezowsky, Nikolai, 1930-1955, n.d.

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Glaz, Herta, 1908-2006.

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Chaliapin, Boris

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Epithet: son of Feodor Chaliapin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x00035d ...

Holinkin, Mark

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Binenbaum, Janco

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Wladimirsky, Matushka

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Doktor, Paul 1919-1989

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Paul Doktor (1919-1989) was an eminent violist and teacher in Europe and the United States. One of the eminent violists of his time, the Viennese born Paul Doktor was the son of another distinguished violist, Karl Doktor, an associate of the violinist, Adolf Busch. He completed his studies at the Vienna Academy of Music in 1938 and moved to Switzerland the next year. He was the prize winner at the Geneva International Viola Competition in 1942. He moved to the United Sta...

Dubinsky, Vladimir

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Fëdorov, Mikhail

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Avshalomov, Aaron, 1894-1965

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Russian-American composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Shanghai, 27 August 1934, to Mr. [Melbert Brinkerhoff] Cary, 1934, 27 August. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270680766 Composed 1948.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for flute and orchestra / A. Avshalomoff. 1948. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42720570 Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundatioin. Composed 1953. De...

Maier, Guy

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Vermeulen, Matthys

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Procter, Leland

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Zemachson, Arnold

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Semenoff, Nikolai

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Schneider, Alexander

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Kornsand, Emil

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Satina, Sofiia

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Grant, Margaret, 1940-1966, n.d.

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Fairchild, Blair

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Harrison, Lucile, 1926-1970, n.d.

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Rautio, Matti

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Buck, Margaret

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Sandby, Herman

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Fuller, Viola

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Bakh, Anna Kusevitskaia

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Dameshek, William, M.D.

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Balanchine, George

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h41pqx (person)

Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Beach, John Parson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wj4rkn (person)

Stillman, Mitya

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zt4zd8 (person)

Korngold, Luzi.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h2p8x (person)

Kreinina, Evgeniia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bt0vb1 (person)

Foerster, Adolph

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x8ffj (person)

MacDowell, Marian Nevins

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Bessel', Vasilii

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66v2p44 (person)

Perry, Helen

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Codman, Russell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64g3s4b (person)

Mann, Katia, 1883-1980

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Cascarino, Romeo

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6862psq (person)

From the opera in 3 acts with libretto by Peggy Oppenlander about the founding father of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. Composed 1955-65; totally revised 1972-1973. First performance Philadelphia, 14 November 1975, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, Sidney Rothstein conductor. For other excerpts from this opera see callnos. 8275 (Prison interlude) and 8276 (Sea interlude).--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of William Penn : Prelude (Cross and crown) / libretto by Peggy O...

Gunzburg, Mark

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61958nz (person)

Mravinsky, Eugene

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61094qm (person)

Kitain, Robert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r40b8 (person)

Speyer, Jacqueline

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x189mc (person)

Kalninš, Alfreds

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Hawley, George

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Vengerova, Isabella

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Bate, Peggy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp95pk (person)

Brown, John Nicholas

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6065czw (person)

John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900) was born on December 17, 1861, at the family homestead in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the eldest son of John Carter Brown and Sophia Augusta (Brown) Brown. John Nicholas Brown was a member of one of the most prominent and distinguished families in Rhode Island, and an eighth generation descendant of Chad Brown, one of the original settlers of Providence Plantations. The family was active during the American Revolution and a supporter of the Feder...

Fuller, Alvan T. (Alvan Tufts), 1878-1958

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s2gwr (person)

Graf, Max

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xn0gt9 (person)

Constant, Marius

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cn83c0 (person)

Moritz, Edvard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w681768c (person)

Rosen, Max

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cd33cp (person)

Hartmann, Arthur.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c087zq (person)

Knut, David

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69m6ddf (person)

Schelling, Ernest

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv1hs2 (person)

Composed originally for string quartet and published by Carl Fischer. This arrangement 1936. First performance Philadelphia, 26 February 1936, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and Composers' Laboratory, Isadore Freed conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Tarantella : for chamber orchestra / Ernest Schelling. [1943?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54616029 American pianist, conductor, and composer. From the descripti...

Brown, Malcolm H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x8dt2 (person)

Strunk, Oliver, 1934-1977

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65260jh (person)

Ricci, Ruggiero, 1918-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x2hz6 (person)

American violinist. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Dec. 6, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861502 ...

Rudolf, Max

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j9hjp (person)

Schuster, Joseph, 1903–1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63s2vmv (person)

Kurenko, Maria

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61q0223 (person)

Kusevitskii, Boris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kn1f9f (person)

Wordsworth, William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64v75vm (person)

Epithet: Principal of Elphinstone College, Bombay; CIE 1887 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x0002b4 ...

Adomián, Lan

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Bulley, Hebe, 1949-1974, n.d.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d340fx (person)

Ivantzoff, Ivan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67j3mc1 (person)

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z2zxg (person)

Claude Debussy (b. 22 August 1862–d. 25 March 1918) was one of the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France he attended the Conservatoire de Paris originally to study piano before switing to composition. His orchestral works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), Nocturnes (1897–1899), Images (1905–1912). In 1904 he rose to international fame for his opera Pelléas et Mélisande. He also composed two books of Préludes a...

Dallas, Constance

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Stout, Eugene

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67f4wd4 (person)

Lanza, Mario

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds4wkc (person)

Mendez, Julietta

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fr38x0 (person)

Chaliapin, Lydia

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Brière, François

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Daniel, Oliver

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Van Nagell, Mimi

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s58td1 (person)

Long, Marguerite, 1874-1966

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French pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed Marguerite Long de Marliave, dated : Juan-les-Pins Feb. 10 1965, to [René Dumesnil], 1965 Feb. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668278 ...

Hawkins, Erick

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American dancer. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (2) : New York, to Herbert Cahoon, 1945 Nov. 14 and 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270972456 ...

Gurevich, Boris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65v5n16 (person)

Salter, Ethel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62p761x (person)

Thomas, Rudolph

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w691468j (person)

Hourvitch, Abram

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61957wp (person)

Glazer, Frank

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Martenot, Maurice

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Barzin, Leon

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American conductor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (25), postcards signed (2), and Christmas card signed, dated : Woodstock (N.Y.), New York, Paris, Munich [and other places], to Mrs. Melbert B. Cary [i.e. Mary Flagler Cary], 1931-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672027 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : [Paris], to Langdon van Norden, 1958 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672032 Violinist. ...

Coates, Helen

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Piastro, Mikhail

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d8zmf (person)

Dudkevich, A.

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Kestenberg, Leo, 1882-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n3202d (person)

Prokhorova, L.

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Méfano, Paul

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60127g3 (person)

Elman, Mischa

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American violinist of Russian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed and typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 24 November and 16 December 1915, to [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1915 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566179 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 18 April 1931, to William van den Burg, 1931 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874462 ...

Roth, Charles

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Orlov, Nikolai

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n99czb (person)

Nevin, Arthur, 1871-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d79wgd (person)

Rogers, Bernard

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Composed 1939. First performance Rochester Civic Orchestra, Rochester, N.Y., 25 October 1939, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of The colours of war / Bernard Rogers. [1939] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53802327 Title changed by composer to "Three Eastern Dances." Composed 1932. First performance Rochester, New York, 3 May 1934, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection...

Rockefeller, Mrs. John D., Jr.

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Garden, Mary

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Scottish singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Paris and Aberdeen, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1947 Sept. 16 and 1951 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863977 American soprano of Scottish birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 1958 or 1959, to Miss Burkman, 1958 or 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967492 From the description of Typewritten document signed, dated : Paris, 8 June 1907, 19...

Steinway & Sons

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Nationality: English. From the description of Model D Pianoforte, No. 54538 [electronic resource]. 1884. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute). WorldCat record id: 222507745 ...

Cahier, Sara Jane

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Raichman, Jacques

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Szeluto, Apolinary, 1884-1966

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Block, Frederick.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fw0ngz (person)

Kurtz, Efrem

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Bolm, Adolf, 1884-1951

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Adolph Bolm (b. Sept. 25, 1884 in St. Petersburg, Russia; d. April 18, 1951 in Hollywood, Calif.) was a ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet master, and dance teacher. From the description of Adolph Bolm collection, 1895-1982 (bulk 1908-1948). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 671239720 Biographical Note Adolph Bolm was born in St. Petersburg in 1884, entered the Imperial Ballet School in 1894, and became a dancer with the M...

Kusevitskii, Elena

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Morkov, Vasilii

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Taft, Edward

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Foote, Kate

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Williams, Perry S.

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Toch, Ernst

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A native of Vienna, Toch emigrated to Great Britain in 1933 and shortly later to the U.S. After the war he stayed in Europe for a time and then returned to the U.S. in 1952. Lilly Toch (née Zwack) was Ernst's wife; they married in 1916. Ernst and Lilly appear to have been good friends of Alma Mahler. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1948-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864622 Austrian composer, pianist, and teacher, n...

Bechtereva, Nina, 1927-1961, n.d.

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Vladimirskii, Aleksandr

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Dormont, Ignacy

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Strauss, Richard

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Bucky, Gustav, M.D.

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Martinů, Bohuslav, 1927-1956

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Kusevitskii, Kseniia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z15b54 (person)

Eiseman, Mrs. Albert

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Wallenstein, Alfred, 1898-1983

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Alfred Franz Wallenstein was born in Chicago on October 7, 1898. Raised in Los Angeles, he studied music with composer Ferde Grofé's mother, Elsa Johanna Bierlich von Grofé, who was a professional cellist, and with Julius Klengel. Wallenstein joined the San Francisco Symphony as a cellist at age 17, and went on to play cello for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic under Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini encouraged him to pursue conducting, and hi...

Beecham, Thomas

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Epithet: conductor Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00021a ...

Miquelle, Renée Longy

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Codman, Anna K.

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Novoe Russkoe Slovo

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Hadley, Henry, 1923-1965, n.d.

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Dideriks, Berta

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Jón Leifs

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Ferrer, José

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Deikarkhanova, Tamara

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Bakaleinikoff, Julia

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Kondracki, Michal

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q64qvt (person)

Goeb, Roger

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Sanromá, Jesús María

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Spector, Eleanor

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Steinert, Sylvia

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Janssen, Werner

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Marcelli, Nino

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Kassern, Tadeusz, 1904-1957

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Composed 1946. First performance Chautauqua, New York, 29 July 1950, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Franco Autori conductor, Arno Mariotti soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concertino for oboe and string orchestra / Tadeusz Kassern. 1946. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52496670 ...

Neveu, Ginette

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Hadley, Henry, 1871-1937

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Composed 1906. First performance Berlin, 27 December 1907, Berlin Philharmonic, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. III / Henry Hadley. [1906] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52137491 Henry Hadley was an American composer and conductor, founder of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. From the description of Papers, 1898-1965 (inclusive), 1927-1937 (bulk). (New Yo...

Dukas, Paul

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French composer. From the description of Correspondence with Paul Poujaud, 1891-1935 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702195521 From the description of L'Ondine et le Pêcheur (Th. Gautier.). [n.d.] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270563125 From the description of Variations et finale sur un menuet de J. Ph. Rameau. [between 1899 and 1902] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270563130 From the description of [Sketchbook] [manuscript]. (Unknown)...

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997

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General manager of the Metropolitan Opera. From the description of Rudolf Bing letter to Hubert Pryor, 1951 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 614998562 Bing was the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972. From the description of Correspondence from Alma Mahler, n. d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862944 Epithet: KBE, impresario British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Perso...

Hartmann, Karl Amadeus, 1905-1963

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Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64t744f (person)

Originally composed for two pianos, 1912; this version 1931. Won First Prize and awarded a nationwide broadcast in the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, 1939. First performance in a broadcast by the CBS Orchestra, New York, May 28, 1939, Howard Barlow conducting, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Helen Fogel soloists.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symbolistic study, no. 6 : Mountain vision : concerto in one movement for piano, second piano and string orchestr...

Bacon, Ernst

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Antheil, George, 1900-1959

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George Antheil, 1900-1959, composer of ultramodern music in the 1920's, prominent in the Parisian literary and artistic avant-garde of the period; subsequently composer of film scores in Hollywood as well as orchestral works and ballets; after 1939 composing in a more traditional style. From the description of George Antheil papers, 1919-1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 460879070 Composer. From the description of An explana...

Baloković, Zlatko

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Piatigorsky, Gregor, 1931-1962, n.d.

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Speyer, Camille

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr551k (person)

Brill, Mrs. Nathan

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Enthoven, Emile

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62d10g7 (person)

Wendel, Ernst

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Betulinskaia, Mariia

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Tcherepnin, Alexandre

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Scott, Carol

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Ganz, Rudolph

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de Filippi, Amadeo

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Reiser, Alois

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Composed 1934. First performance Los Angeles, 24 January 1936, Los Angeles Federal Symphony Orchestra of the WPA, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Erewhon / by Alois Reiser. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53438646 Composed 1919. First performance Los Angeles, 23 March, 1933, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conductor, Ilya Bronson soloist. Received honorable mention in the Hollywood B...

Leichtentritt, Hugo

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Materials consist of two manuscripts: one is apparently the first version of the overture (24 p.); the second is the revised and completed version (52 p.).--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Ouverture zu einem Trauerspiel : für grosses Orchester / H. Leichtentritt. 1898. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 77499610 Biographical Note 1874, Jan. 1 ...

Geer, Will

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Palmer, Robert

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Epithet: of Add MS 32704 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x000352 Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine (1634-1705), diplomat and author, was the eldest son of Sir James Palmer of Hayes, Middlesex, and Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire, by his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir William Herbert, K.B. Palmer was born at Dorney Court on 3 September 1634, and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, whic...

Brown, Anna

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Neuburgh, Ronald

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List, Eugene

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wm1g25 (person)

Enesco, Georges

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Elisabeta, Abbess

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Rubin, Marcel, 1905-1995

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Cavallo, Diana

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Piatigorsky, Jacqueline

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Andrijewsky, N.

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Pennario, Leonard

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Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854

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Rosenthal, Moriz

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Moriz Rosenthal was a Polish pianist. From the description of Letters, 1937 Dec. 7 - 1938 Mar. 3, New York, to Eileen Wood. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378723 From the guide to the Letters, New York, to Eileen Wood, 1937 Dec. 7 - 1938 Mar. 3, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Ukranian pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berlin, [n.d., ca. 1892?], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d., ca. 1892?]. (U...

Leuchtenberg de Beauharnais, Nataliia "Nadine" "Nadia"

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Ehlermann, Carl

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The Netherlands

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Gillet, Fernand

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Janin, Jacques, 1939-....

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Makovsky, Paul

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Dymow, Ossip

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James, William

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x000154 Epithet: Bishop of Durham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x00031b Epithet: Rector of Pitchcombe British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000326 Epithet: of Stowe MS 184 ...

Evans, Edwin, Jr.

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Koutzen, Boris

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Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995

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Composed 1933. First performance Hollywood Bowl, 13 July 1933, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fragment of chorus from "Orestes" of Euripides : from a conjectural version (400 B.C.) / arranged by Nicolas Slonimsky. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54759973 Movements 1-6 and 8 originally composed 1928 in Studies in Black and White for piano. Transcribed and Valse added, 1941. First performance Buenos Aire...

Garbousova, Raya, 1905-1997

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Rose, Arnold

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Jonás, Alberto

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Haubiel, Charles

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Neuburgh, Alex

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Krasner, Louis, 1903-1995

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Louis Krasner (1903-1995) was an American violinist, educator, and collector. A close associate of the Viennese School circle, he commissioned the Alban Berg violin concerto, and also premiered the Schoenberg concerto. From the description of Louis Krasner correspondence and other papers, 1920-1976. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612683781 "Krasner, Louis (b. Cherkassy, Ukraine, 21 June 1903; d. Boston, 4 May 1995). American violinist. He was brought to the USA at...

Lederman, Minna

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Minna Lederman Daniel (b. March 17, 1896; d. October 29, 1995) was a music and dance editor and writer, and a major influence on 20th century music. In 1923, she was a founding member of the League of Composers, a group of musicians and proponents of modern music. In 1924, she helped launch the League's magazine, The League of Composers review (in 1925 the name was changed to Modern music), which was the first American journal to manifest an interest in contemporary composers. She served as the ...

Nin-Culmell, Joaquín

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Maganini, Quinto, 1897-1974

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Composed 1928.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Even hours : a ballet-suite, op. 32 / Quinto Maganini. [1928?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 50556394 Composed 1931. First performance New York, 10 November 1935, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra of the W.P.A., the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Napoleon I : an orchestral portrait, op. 34 / Quinto Maganini. [1931?] (Franklin & Marshall ...

Chaliapin, Mariia

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Shepherd, Arthur

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Epithet: Lord Mayor of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x000275 Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7808 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x0000f2 Although born in Paris, Idaho, 125 miles north of Salt Lake City in the colorful Bear Lake Valley, Arthur Shepherd has always been claimed by Utah as one of its ...

Delcassé-Noguès, Suzanne

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Maynor, Dorothy

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Singer. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Maynor : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733402 ...

Rockefeller, Martha Baird Allen

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Sakharov, Viktor

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Langley, Allan

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Coppola, Piero

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Hill, Edward Burlingame

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Composed 1931. First performance, Boston, 25 April 1932, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor, Jesús María Sanromá soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concertino in one movement for piano and orchestra, op. 36 / by Edward Burlingame Hill. 1931. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52297708 Composed 1916-17. First performance, New York, 17 February 1918, New York Symphonic Society, Walter Damrosch conductor.--Cf. ...

Beyer, Johanna Magdalena

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Busoni, Gerda Sjöstrand

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Bauer, Marion

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Marion Eugenie Bauer was born in Walla Walla, Washington on Aug. 15, 1882. She taught at New York University, 1926-1951, and was affiliated with the Juilliard School of Music, 1940-1955. She was a founding member of the American Music Guild, the Society of American Women Composers, and the American Composers Alliance. Initially she wrote songs and music for piano solos, but later she branched out and wrote orchestral and chamber music. She died in South Hadley, Massachusetts Aug. 9, 1955. ...

Curtin, Phyllis

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Matzenauer, Margarete, 1881-1963

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Dubensky, Arcady, 1890-1966

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First movement composed 1927. First performance New York, 29 December 1927, New York Symphony Society, the composer conducting. Second movement added 1937.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Russian bells / Arcady Dubensky. 1937. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45203675 Composed 1930. First performance in a broadcast by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York, 1931, Walter Damrosch conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the d...

Prokofiev, Lina, 1924-1931

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Kusevitskii, Adol'f

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Bogue-Laberge Concert Management, Inc.

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Stiedry, Fritz

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A native of Vienna, Fritz Stiedry (1883-1968) had apparently been briefly acquainted with Werfel in Leipzig, around 1912; and then knew Werfel and Alma Mahler in Vienna around 1924, at which time Alma (as Stiedry recalls in a letter) was influential in his becoming director of the Volksoper. In her memoir Mein Leben, Alma mentions Stiedry among encounters in 1933. Erika Stiedry-Wagner was a singer and Fritz's wife; they were married in 1924. Fritz and Erika emigrated to the U.S. in 1938; they mo...

Tabakov, Vladimir

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Forbes, F. Murray

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Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972

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Engineer and inventor. From the description of Papers of Igor Ivan Sikorsky, 1913-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80153906 A renowned aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, Russian-American Igor Sikorsky immigrated to the United States in 1919 and founded the Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation in 1923 (now the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation). By the 1930s, he had developed the "flying boats" of Pan American Airways. He continued his work with he...

Dobuzhinskii, Mikhail

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Eiseman, Sally, 1936-1949, n.d.

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Kennedy, Joan

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Foss, Cornelia

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Elmore, Robert

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Talley, Thomasina

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Pregel', Aleksandra

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Jalas, Jussi

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Finnish conductor and son-in-law of Sibelius. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 16, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861427 ...

Labunski, Wiktor

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Cheslock, Louis, 1898-1981

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Composed 1930. Received honorable mention in the Women's Symphony Orchestra of New York contest, 1938.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture : the jewel merchants, "Diamente nè smeraldo nè zaffino" / Louis Cheslock. 1930. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45206763 Composed 1923. Both dances received awards in the Chicago Daily News Contests, 1923-24; the "Spanish Dance" received an additional award as third Grand Prize. First perfo...

Gourevich, Boris

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Maritain, Raïssa

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Kal'nin, Alfreds

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Brant, Henry, 1913-2008

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Composed 1933. First performance, New School for Social Research, New York, Oct. 16, 1933, American Chamber Orchestra, Bernard Hermann, conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Lyric piece / Henry Brant. 1933. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43284603 Composed 1945. In memory of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dedication : in memory of a great man / Henry Brant. 1945. (Fr...

Luboshutz, Pierre

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Van Vactor, David, 1906-1994

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Commissioned by the Saidenberg Symphonietta, 1937. Composed 1938. First performance Chicago, 7 February 1938, Saidenberg Symphonietta, Daniel Saidenberg conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Five bagatelles for strings / David Van Vactor. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56394729 Composed 1940. First performance Ravinia Park, Illinois, 13 July 1940, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the composer conducting, Milton Preves, violist...

Mason, Henry Lowell

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Epithet: Minister of Eyke, county Suffolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x000142 Epithet: of Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x000153 ...

Sterl, Robert

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Fuleihan, Anis

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Commissioned by and composed for the Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta 1940. First Performance Philadelphia, 6 February, 1941, by the Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta, Fabien Sevitsky conductor, the composer soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Ceremonial : variations for piano and string orchestra / Anis Fuleihan. [1940]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51896700 Composed 1939. First performance by the Philharmonic-Sy...

Grainger, Percy

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Melbourne-born pianist and composer who spent much of his working life in the United States. From the description of Letter to Virginia Morley and Livingston Gearhart [manuscript]. 1949. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225793948 From the description of Postcards from Percy and Rose Grainger, 1916-1925 [manuscript]. 1916-1925. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 271311978 Percy Aldridge Grainger, 1882-1961 was an Australian Composer/Pianist. Rose an...

Soëtans, Robert

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Anshen, Nanda

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Fickenscher, Arthur

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Completed 1934. First performance by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Richmond, Va., December 4, 1934, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Out of the gay nineties / Arthur Fickénscher. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51823017 American composer, pianist, teacher, inventor, and University of Virginia professor, 1920-1941. From the description of Papers of Arthur Fickénscher, 1895-1995. (Univers...

Lane, Louis

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Sibelius, Jean, 1928-1957, n.d.

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Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960

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Eble was an officer of the Bruckner Society of America, in New York City. Selden-Goth was a music scholar; she was an acquaintance of Mitropoulos and of Alma Mahler; Trudy Goth was apparently her daughter. Johnson was a music critic for the New York Post. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1941-1960. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863958 ...

Chardon, Yves, 1927-1954

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Conte, Silvio O.

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Silvio O. Conte, 1973 1921 Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on November 9th to Ottavio and Lucia (Lora) Conte. 1940 Following graduation from Pittsfield Vocational High School worked for a time as a machinist at General Electric Co. and later in the press room of the Berkshire Eagle. 1942 ...

Sebastian, George

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Freund, Marya

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Gould, Morton

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Composed 1934. First performance Jan. 2, 1936, Philadelphia, at a concert for Youth, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Chorale and fugue in jazz / by Morton Gould. [19--?]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51998771 American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist (b. Dec. 10, 1913 in New York; d. Feb. 21,1996 in Orlando, Florida). From the description of Morton G...

Kennan, Kent

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Schorr, Friedrich

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de Basil, W.

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Koshetz, Marina

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Gilbert & Gilbert, 1947-1949

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Uninskii, Aleksandr

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Markevitch, Igor

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Italian conductor and composer of Russian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Vevey], 27 January [1933], to Comtesse Etienne de Beaumont in Paris, 1933 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581831 ...

Pechkovskaia, Glafira

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Akimenko, Fëdor Stepanovich

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Borchard, Adolphe

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Meyerowitz, Jan

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Pregel'-Breyner, Sofiia

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Freeman, Robert

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Epithet: of Pasadena Presbyterian Church British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x0002fd ...

Neuburgh, Ol'ga Leuchtenberg de Beauharnais

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Wulsin, Lucien, 1940-1975, n.d.

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von Borissowsky, Serge

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Verdon, Gwen

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Biographical Sketch Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1927, Bob Fosse is known as one of musical theater's greatest choreographers and directors. After appearing as a dancer in such films as Give A Girl A Break and Kiss Me Kate, both 1953, Fosse established himself as a choreographer in his first two Broadway shows, The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955). His choreography includes such other classics as New Girl in Town (1957), Redhead (1...

Sutro, Rose

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Iosselevich-Iorgii, Iosif, 1920-1975, n.d.

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Schwerké, Irving

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Busch, Adolf, 1891-1952

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German violinist and composer. From the description of Nocturno / für / Saxophon und kleines Orchester / über ein / Negro Spiritual / ("Swing low, sweet Chariot") / Adolf Busch Op. 58a. 26. Juli 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270562109 ...

Anderson, Marian

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Lesur, Daniel

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Malko, Nicolai

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American conductor of Russian birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated, and autograph note signed, undated : New York, 4 January 1939, 13 June 1940, and [n.d.], to Mrs. Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary, Jr. [i.e. Mary Flagler Cary], 1939 Jan. 4, 1940 June 13 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581667 ...

Ushkov, Aleksei "Lilia", 1920-1968, n.d.

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Galaxy Music Corporation.

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Altschuler, Modest, 1873-1963

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Modest Altschuler (1873-1963) was a Russian cellist, conductor, and composer. Born near Kiev in what is today Belarus, he began studying cello at the Warsaw Conservatory when he was thirteen years old. He later moved to Moscow to study composition with Anton Arensky, harmony with Sergei Taneyev, and cello with Alfred von Glehn. He also studied conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. Altschuler immigrated to the United States in 1896, and in 1903 formed the Russian Symphon...

Pescara, Aurelio

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Spalding, Mary

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Van Nagell, John

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Press, Michael, 1872-1938

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Dunn, James P., 1957-

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Falkner, D. Keith

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Burk, John

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Johnson, James P. (James Peter), 1929-

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James P. Johnson was born in Yankton, South Dakota, on June 2, 1930. He grew up in Muleshoe and Lubbock, Texas. He left Texas to attend Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, graduating in 1952. That same year he went into the Marine Corps. As a jet pilot, he served a ten-month tour of combat duty in Korea. Discharged from the Marines in 1956, he moved to Colorado to attend the University of Colorado Law School. He later was a prosecuting attorney in the 8th Judicial Distric...

Sanders, Robert L.

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Allen, Philip

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Epithet: of London? British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0001f0 Epithet: of the Home Office British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000126 ...

Downes, Olin, 1924-1965, n.d.

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Di Bonaventura, Mario

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Lehrmann, Leo

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Higginson, Mrs. Henry L.

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Bortkevich, Sergei

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Tabakoff, Vladimir

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Bliss, Arthur, 1891-1975

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English composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [London], 7 June [1921] and 22 May [1922], to Mme [Louise] Alvar Harding, 1921 June 7 and 22 May [1922]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672855 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London, n.d., 1915-1924], to Mr. [Otto M.] Kling [at J. & W. Chester], [n.d., 1915-1924]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672860 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [...

Dane, Ernest Blaney, 1925-1949, n.d.

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Wilder, Ingalls[?]

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Finney, Ross Lee

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Tollefsen, Carl

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Davis, Colin

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B'ra, V.

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Josten, Werner

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Luzzatto

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Rybner-Barclay, Dagmar de Corval, 1940-1963, n.d.

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Seroff, Victor

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Berio, Luciano

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Italian composer. From the description of Album leaf, 1975, Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270919773 From the description of Autograph letters signed (10), Typewritten letters signed (9), Autograph postcard signed, Typewritten letter signed (copy) of a letter to Karl Heinz [Stockhausen], Typewritten letter signed (copy) of a letter to [Donal] Henahan, Printed program with Autogrph note signed, Copies (2) of an article about Berio in a Paris newspaper with Autograph ...

Watts, Winnter

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English, Granville

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Keller, Harrison

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Abell, Louise

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Bertensson, Serge

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Schnéevoigt, Georg 1872-1947

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Finnish conductor and cellist. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Oslo, 1 February 1927, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1927, 1 February. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668926 ...

Berners, Gerald Hugh, Lord

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Gordon, Jacques

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Eldridge, Harriet

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Kreutz, Arthur

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From Paul Bunyan, a dance poem for large orchestra, composed in 1939. For the complete work, see callno.: 4032.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Winter of the blue snow / by Arthur Kreutz 1974. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 192047029 Composed 1942. Composer won a Guggenheim Fellowship for this and other works.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Violin concerto / Arthur Kreutz. 1942. (Franklin & Marshall...

Hofman, Josef

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Avshalomov, Jacob

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Jacob Avshalomov (1919- ) graduated from Reed College in 1943 and married Doris Felde, also class of '43. He played percussion and cello in the Portland Junior Symphony before earning advanced degrees from the Eastman School of Music. Avshalomov taught music at Columbia University from 1946 to 1954 before returning to Portland to become the Conductor of the Portland Junior Symphony, retiring after 40 years in 1994. From the description of Jacob Avshalomov Papers, 1954-2000. 1954-2000...

Zighera, Bernard

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Kitchen, Dorothy

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Feuermann, Emanuel

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de Pasquale, Maria Leuchtenberg de Beauharnais

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Thérémin, Léon, 1896-1993

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Goldmark, Rubin, 1872-1936

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Kountz, Emma

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Zighera, Alfred

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Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich

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First performed in St. Petersberg at the Mariinsky on 7/19 January 1898. From the description of Adagio (Raymonda) : A. Glazunov : manuscript, [1898?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612868490 Originally composed for horn and piano 1890. For Glazunov's own transcription for horn and orchestra see F.C. no. 539 m. From the description of Rêverie, op. 24, for horn solo and orchestra / Alexander Glazunov ; transcribed by B. Jivoff. [1---?] (Franklin & Marshall Co...

Devi, Indira

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Willson, Meredith

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Aleksandrovich, A.

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Edman, George

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Hendl, Walter

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Pianist and conductor. Director of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, 1964-1972. From the description of Walter Hendl papers, 1964-1972. (University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music). WorldCat record id: 30480373 ...

Stein, Erwin.

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Fearing, Gwendoline

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Templeton, Alec, 1910-1963

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Composed originally for piano, 1936. Transcribed 1936. First broadcast performance Chicago, December 1938, Benny Goodman conductor. First concert performance New York, 15 January 1939, members of the New York Philharmonic, Henry Brant conductor, Benny Goodman soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Bach goes to town / Alec Templeton ; symphonic arrangement by Henry Brant. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56024505 ...

Werfel, Franz

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Epithet: German novelist and playwright British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000342 ...

Hawkes, Clare

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kr041s (person)

Ushkov, Grigorii

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6331xf5 (person)

Shmuklovskii, Ita

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Naumoff, Nádia

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Willmann, Allan

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Becker, Gustave

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Borovsky, Alexander, 1920-1965, n.d.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6748t27 (person)

Hunt, Horace

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Moore, Douglas

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Haskil, Clara

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Naumov, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich, 1838-1901

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Shaw, Robert

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Epithet: Merchant at Marseilles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000d0 Epithet: of Ballinodoe, near Sligo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000d1 Epithet: Colonel; MP; lst Baronet 1821 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000cf ...

Humphrey, Doris

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Bauer, Harold

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Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0002f4 ...

Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich, 1889-1968

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Harvard University Dept. of Sociology professor, served as the chairman of the Eastern Sociological Conference Committee on Local Arrangements. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1931-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243847369 Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, was a British-American anthropologist, specializing in the areas of race and gender issues, as well as a prolific speake...

Landowska, Wanda

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Polish keyboard player. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667124 ...

Fitelberg, Jerzy

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Composed 1929.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Der Schlecht gefesselte Prometheũs : Konzert-Sũite / Jerzy Fitelberg. 1929. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51794021 The composer Jerzy Fitelberg (1903-1951) was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father, Grzegorz Fitelberg, was a composer and the conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic until the Second World War. Jerzy began music training at the Conservatory of Warsaw, then studied...

Hartmann, Thomas de

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Russian-born composer. From the description of The Thomas de Hartmann papers, 1902-1982 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702138682 The first edition of "La Guzla," a collection of ballads about mystical themes by Prosper Mérimée, was published anonymously in 1827. Purportedly translated from the original "Illyrian" (i.e. Serbo-Croatian) by one Hyacinthe Maglanowich, the pretended prose translations of Illyrian songs turned out to be a hoax and are the or...

Prunières, Henry

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Frank, Claude.

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Jaubert, Maurice

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Tolstoy, Alexandra

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Dormont, George

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Braine, Robert, 1896-1940

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Diaghilev, Serge

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Slavensky, Josip

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Ravel, Maurice

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000308 Maurice Ravel was a French composer; the apparent recipient, Toscanini, was a conductor. From the guide to the ALS, to [Arturo Toscanini], 1930 Sept. 9, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) From the description of ALS, 1930 Sept. 9, to [Arturo Toscanini]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122682742 ...

Rabaud, Henri.

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Composed for the Paris Conservatory competition of 1901, originally for clarinet and piano. Dedicated to Monsieur Charles Turban.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Solo de concert : pour clarinette et orchestre à cordes / Henri Rabaud. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53114589 French composer and conductor. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Boston, 8 April 1919, to George Engles, 1919 Apr. 8. ...

Hirshman, André

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Berezowsky, Judith, 1947-1955

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Prokofiev, Sergei

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Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. From the description of Letters : to Fatima Hanoum Samoilenko and Boris Nikolaevich Samoilenko, 1919-1936. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612846006 Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer. From the description of Letters to Ephraim F. Gottlieb, 1920-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477994 Sergey Prokofiev was a Russian composer. From the description of Postcard ...

Davydova, Maria

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Cahier, Charles

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Finland

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Thaw, Jane

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Smeterlin, Jan

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Cameron, Basil, 1884-1975

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Kapell, William

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American pianist. Born in 1922 in New York City, William Kapell studied with Dorthea Anderson LaFollette at the Yorkville Settlement School, New York, and with Olga Samaroff at the Philadelphia Conservatory and the Juilliard School. He won the Naumberg Award in 1941 and the Town Hall Award in 1942. Kapell married Anna Lou Melson in 1948. As a soloist and recitalist, Kapell performed in North and South America, Australia, Europe, and Israel and recorded for RCA Victor. He...

Kall, Alexis

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Cowell, Henry.

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Smith, David Stanley, 1877-1949

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Composed 1921; revised 1930. First performance New Haven, 22 February 1931, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the composer conducting, Georges Barrère soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fête galante : fantasy for flute and orchestra, op. 48 / David Stanley Smith. [1930] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54802064 Composed 1928. First performance Cleveland, 8 January, 1931, Cleveland Orchestra, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher C...

Davidovskii, Grigorii

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Steber, Eleanor, 1914-1990

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Eleanor Steber was born in Wheeling, West Virginia on July 17, 1914. She was the daughter of William Charles Steber, Sr. (1888–1966) and Ida Amelia (née Nolte) Steber (1885–1985). She had two younger siblings – William Charles Steber, Jr. (1917–2002) and Lucile Steber Leslie (1918–1999). She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1940 and was one of its leading artists through 1961. She was known for her large, flexible silvery voice, particularly in the high-lying soprano roles of Richard ...

Nielsen, Carl

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Roussel, Albert, 1923-1939, n.d.

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Casadesus, Marius

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Saminsky, Lazare, 1882-1959

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American composer, conductor, and writer on music of Russian origin. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5), dated : New York, Rye, and Menthon St. Bernard, 1924, 1927, 1943 [and n.d.], to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1924, 1927, 1943 [and n.d.], including 1924 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668709 Commissioned by the League of Composers, 1936. Composed 1936. First performance National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C., 17 February 1937, the composer c...

Cesana, Otto

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Mahler, Alma

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Alma Mahler, daughter of painter Emil Jakob Schindler and singer Anna Bergen, grew up in Vienna, studied music, and married composer Gustav Mahler. After his death in 1911, she married architect Walter Gropius in 1915. She and writer Franz Werfel fled Nazi Germany in 1937 for France and settled in California in 1940. From the description of Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48912134 Born Alma Maria Schindler, Al...

Shaporin, Yuri

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Hovhaness, Alan

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Moleux, Naomi

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Bean, Betty Randolph

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Ehlermann, Elizabeth

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Willeke, Willem

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Conus, Georgii

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Shanet, Howard

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Tansman, Hsien-Ming Lee, 1928-1950, n.d.

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Morel, Jean

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Naumov, Praskovia "Pashen'ka"

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Luce, Wendell

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Hamilton, Iain, 1920-1986

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Epithet: Editor 'The Spectator' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000324 ...

Bakaleinikoff, Vladimir

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Hager, Mina

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Polivanov, Nikolai

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Betti, Adolfo

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Harsányi, Tibor

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Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946

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American composer. From the description of Charles Wakefield Cadman autograph letter to Adolph M. Foerster, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 650839439 From the description of Charles Wakefield Cadman autograph letter to Adolph M. Foerster, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 650839474 From the description of Charles Wakefield Cadman autograph letter to Adolph M. Foerster, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 650839445 From the description of C...

Price, Florence, 1887-1953

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Florence Beatrice Price (b. April 9, 1887, Little Rock, AK–d. June 3, 1953, Chicago, IL) was born to a well respected interracial couple. Her first piano performance was at age four and her first composition was published at 11. At 14, Price graduated from Capitol High School as valedictorian and enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music. There she studied with George Chadwick and Frederick Converse, and graduated in 1906 with honors. In 1910, she became the head of Clark Atlanta Univer...

Whithorne, Jane

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Sterl, Helene

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Jorgy, Joseph

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Alphaud, Gabriel, 1879-?

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Boyle, George

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Sevitzky, Maria

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Sorokin, Pitirim, 1929-1970, n.d.

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Tuthill, Burnet, 1888-1982

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Composed 1962, at Robert Zimmerman's request. First performance Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, 12 December 1962, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor, Robert Zimmerman soloist. Dedicated to Robert Zimmerman.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for double bass and wind orchestra / by Burnet Tuthill. [1962] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56339011 Composed 1933. First performance National Mus...

Laurent, Germaine

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Allegra, Edmond

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Adler, Clarence

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Simpson, George Elliott

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Teyte, Maggie

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Andru, Alexander

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Maazel, Lorin

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American conductor and violinist of French birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Los Angeles, 14 June 1942, to William Keresey in New York 1942 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270915854 ...

Beckett, Wheeler

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Ushkov, Ksenia, 1920-1977, n.d.

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Naumov, Adelia Souza

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Norden, Norris Lindsay

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Composed 1950.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Music for a tragedy / N. Lindsay Norden. [1950] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53088942 Composed 1941. First performance Rochester, 1941, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, José Iturbi conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Clouds of the north : for orchestra / N. Lindsay Norden. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53088909 ...

Burgin, Richard, 1892-1981

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958

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English composer, teacher, writer, and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Norfolk,] 1 February 1921, to H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1921 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677908 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dorking, [n.d.], to Dr. Myers, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677911 From the description of Letter in the third person, dated : [London], 19 February [1926], to Mme [Louise] Alvar, 1926 Fe...

Leuchtenberg de Beauharnais, Anna Naumova, 1922-1975, n.d.

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Désormière, Roger

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Aiken, Clarice

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Frankford, Joseph S.

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Engel, Lehman, 1910-1982

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Composer, conductor, author. From the description of Reminiscences of Lehman Engel : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597833 ...

Galamian, Ivan

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Goldberg, Szymon

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Delannoy, Marcel

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Kahn, Otto

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Roman, Aleksandr

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985

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U.S. representative to the United Nations. From the description of Correspondence 1957. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 50307057 United States Senator and ambassador. From the description of Henry Cabot Lodge letter to Harriet L. White [manuscript], 1960 August 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 466876849 Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985) was a journalist, U.S. Senator, and diplomat, and the grandson of statesman Henry Cabot Lodge,...

Paichadzhe, Gavriil

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Saslawsky, Boris

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Daykarhanova, Tamara

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Schelling, Peggy

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Galaxy Music Corporation, 1938-1939

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Riegger, Wallingford

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Composed for piano 4-hands, 1932. Transcribed 1938.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dance suite : I Evocation / Wallingford Riegger. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53784085 Commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Composed 1947. First performance New York, 16 May 1948, CBS Symphony, Dean Dixon conductor. Received the New York Music Critics' Circle Award for the 1947-48 season and the Walter W. Naumburg Recording Award.--Cf. F...

Johnstone, Winifred

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Grosbayne, Benjamin, 1893-1976

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Cohen, Harriet

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English pianist. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (2), dated : [London], 15 February and 11 March 1933, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1933 Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564549 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : [London], 15 August 1932, to Mrs. Harris R. Childs, 1932 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564545 Epithet: CBE, pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Desc...

Mihalovici, Marcel

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[Shachovskii(?)], Ioann

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Iosselevich-Iorgii, Tatiana Ushkova, 1920-1975, n.d.

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Goebel, Lee

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Chardon, Henriette Chardon-Estournelles

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Malkina, Beata

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Mann, Thomas

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Bostelmann, Otto

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Oliver, Mrs. Crocker

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Pousseur, Henri

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Arkhangel'skii, Aleksandr

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De Rubertis, Oreste

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Arnell, Richard

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Ganz, Esther

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Barrett, Margery

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Rachmaninoff, Sergei

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The Five etudes-tableaux orchestrated by Respighi are originally from Rachmaninoff's op. 33 and 39 for piano solo. From the description of 5 etudes tableaux / S. Rachmaninoff ; orchestration de Ottorino Respighi. 1930. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 62092347 Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer and pianist. From the description of Sergei Rachmaninoff letter, New York, to Princess Maria Dimitriv Gagarin, 1942 May 4. (Pennsylvania State University Lib...

James, Philip

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Philip James, (1890-1975), American composer of choral and orchestral music, was born on May 17, 1890 in Jersey City, N.J., to a Welsh father and German mother. At an early age, he began piano, violin, and theory lessons, and served as choirboy in several New Jersey churches. He was deeply involved in the liturgy and music of the Episcopal Church and composed his first hymn at the age of ten. From 1904 to 1909 he studied organ with J. Warren Andrews and in 1907 began advanced harmon...

Stöhr, Richard

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Biggs, E. Power, 1953-1967

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Hannikainen, Arvida

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Pierne, Gabriel

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Grant, William Parks

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Converse, Frederick Shepherd

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Foote, George

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Woods, Mark

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Downes, Irene, 1940-1965, n.d.

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de Beus, Riec

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Mosolov, A. (Aleksandr), 1900-1973

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Kolpakchi, Grigorii

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Rivier, Jean

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Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...

Bergsma, William

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Chandler, Dorothy

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Rostropovich, Leopol'd

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Hoffmann, Ernst

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Deering, Henri

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Powell, John

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 380 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0000cf Epithet: coal merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0000c9 Epithet: MD, of Carmarthen and Pembroke British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0000cc Epithet: ...

Kusevitskii, Iosif

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Kusevitskii, Nikolai

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Whitmer, T. Carl (Thomas Carl), 1873-1959

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Composed 1950 at the request of Mihail Stolarewski. First performance Pittsburgh, May 1950, Chatham College Orchestra, Mihail Stolarewski conductor. Dedicated to Mihail Stolarewski and the P.C.W. [Pennsylvania College for Women, later Chatham College] Orchestra.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Miniature suite for small orchestra / by T. Carl Whitmer. [1950] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 57235484 First performance Philadelphia, 20 Ma...

Bacevičius, Vytautas, 1905-1970

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Smirnov, Dmitrii

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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

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Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian and American novelist, poet, short-story writer, lecturer, and literary critic. From the description of Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975) [microform]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 210012737 From the description of Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987 bulk (1934-1975). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465556 From the guide to the Vladimir Nabokov papers, 1918-1987, 1934-1975, (The New Y...

Muradeli, Vano

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Jarecki, Tadeusz.

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Thillois, Fernand

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Franco, Johan

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Clementi, Cecilia

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Gordon, Esther Lowe

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Friedberg, Carl, 1872-1955

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A pianist and teacher, Carl Friedberg (1872-1955) was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals, concerts with leading orchestras, and chamber music concerts with a variety of ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. Friedberg also was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Institute for Musical Arts, which later became the Juilliard School....

Grimm, Carl Hugo

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Urussov, N. V.

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Owen, Bertha

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Ruggles, Carl, 1876-1971

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American composer. From the description of Carl Ruggles Papers, 1894-1981 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 122501161 From the description of Carl Ruggles Papers, 1894-1981 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702189342 Painter; Coral Gables, Fla., and Arlington, Vt. From the description of Christmas card and note to E.P. and Constance Richardson, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557460 Charle...

Portnoi, Henry

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Urchs, Ernest

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Pernet, André

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Sessions, Roger.

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Kochański, Paweł

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Ross, Hugh

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English-born American organist and choral conductor. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 25, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861474 From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 15, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861444 ...

Moldovan, Nicolas

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Kogán, Zinovy

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Leginska, Ethel

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English pianist, teacher, and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Dec. 21 1924, to Mrs. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1924 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667204 ...

Buketov, Igor

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Plotnikoff, Evgenii

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Shaikovich, Ivan

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Waters, Edward

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Abell, Arthur M...

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American music critic Arthur M. Abell, 1868-1958, was Berlin correspondent for the Musical Courier from 1893 to 1918 and later published Talks with Great Composers, his reminiscences of conversations with Brahms, Strauss, Puccini, Humperdinck, Bruch, and Grieg. He knew many musicians both obscure and famous, and as a former violinist himself, especially befriended other violinists. From the description of Papers, 1829-1976 (inclusive), 1905-1958 (bulk). (New York Public Library). Wor...

Slade, John

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Epithet: Author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0002b0 ...

Brice, Carol

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de Rothschild, Germaine

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Varèse, Edgard

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Posselt, Ruth

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Maderna, Bruno

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Mohaupt, Richard

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Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

Laks, Simon

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Eppert, Hertha

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Barber, Samuel, 1938-1954, n.d.

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Grovlez, Gabriel

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French composer and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], 7 April 1916, to [Georges Jean-Aubry], 1916 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578408 French composer. From the description of Musical compositions, 1902-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598903 ...

Naumoff, Anna

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Barlow, Samuel

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American composer, concert impresario, and writer. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 5, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861671 ...

Glinski, Mateusz

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Judd, George, Jr.

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Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956

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Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Chicago Record-Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. From the description of Felix Borowski papers, 1841-1995, bulk 1896-1956. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 190995566 Composed 1931-32. First performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, March 16, 1933, Frederick Stock conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 1 / Felix B...

Glière, Reinhold.

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Ballet in 3 acts with scenario by M.T. Kurilko. Composed 1926-27. First performance Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 14 June 1927. Ballet later revised in 1949, and title changed from Krasnyĭ mak (The Red Poppy) to Krasnyĭ Tsvetok (The Red Flower). For excerpts from the ballet see callnos. 2499, 2575, 2398, 6399, 2502, 4215, 2579, 2928, 2500, 2929.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Pavot rouge. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 49802744 ...

Coleridge-Taylor, Avril, 1903-1998

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Gillet, Yvonne

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Lovreglio, Eleuthère

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Horenstein, Jascha

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Zeitlin, Zvi

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Hess, Myra

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English pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Apr. 25 1932, to Mrs. Melbert Brinckerhoff [i.e. Mary Flagler] Cary, 1932 Apr. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666224 Epithet: DBE, pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00028c ...

Barrett, William

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Bakaleinikoff, Costia

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Münz, Mieczysław

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Ross, Elaine

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Elwell, Herbert

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Hertz, Alfred

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American conductor of German birth. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York Jan. 13 1912, to Harry H[arkness] Flagler, 1912 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666183 From the description of Letter signed, dated : New York Nov. 22 1903, to Herr Schaum, 1903 Nov. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666186 Alfred Hertz served as conductor for the Tivoli Theater, Cothen, The Netherlands, the Maurice Grau Opera Company, the Metropoli...

Delvincourt, Claude

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Hoover, Herbert Charles, 1903-1969

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Epithet: President of the USA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x0000d4 ...

Kondrashin, Kiril

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Ushkov, Mikhail, 1920-1977, n.d.

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Makanowitzky, Paul, 1920-

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Illiashenko, Andrei

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Smallens, Alexander

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Rascher, Sigurd

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Kašlík, Václav

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Marlowe, Sylvia

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American harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, was born Sapira Marlowe, on September 26, 1908, in New York. She later died in New York on December 10, 1981. After learning the piano and organ at school and university, Marlowe continued her musical education at the Ecole Normale in Paris, studying the piano and organ, and composition with Nadia Boulanger. It was there that she first heard Landowska, whose harpsichord playing impressed her deeply, although she did not study with her until years later. On...

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), novelist and playwright. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82555916 From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165470 Thornton Wilder was an American playwright, novelist, and essayist. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection of papers, 1926-1975 bulk (1926-1967). (New York Public Library). WorldCat rec...

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father's firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as ...

Szymanowski, Karol

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Karol Symanowksi was a Polish composer and pianist. From the description of Karol Szymanowski score, ca. 1921 (Vassar College). WorldCat record id: 464282712 Polish composer. From the description of Tarantella. / Pour violon et piano / Karol Szymanowski op. 28. N 2. [1915?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270569968 ...

Nezhdanova, Antonina Vasilʹevna, 1873-1950

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Gil'sberg, Aleksandr

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Pickman, Vivian

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Bloch, Suzanne

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Lutenist and daughter of Ernest Bloch. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Dec. 2, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861479 ...

Weinberg, Jacob

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Pel'tser-Kostritskaia, Mrs. Serge

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Graf, Herbert

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Putianina, Mariia

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Clokey, Joseph

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Porter, Quincy, 1897-1966

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Commissioned by the Little Symphony Society of St. Louis, 1937. Composed 1937. First performance St. Louis, 2 July 1937, St. Louis Little Symphony, Hans Lange conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dance in 3 time / by Quincy Porter. c1937. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53342913 Commissioned by the Columbia Broadcasting System. Composed 1938. First performance over CBS Radio from New York, summer 1938, CBS Orchestra. For Dance ...

Jacobi, Frederick

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Polacco, Giorgio

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000408.0x000324 ...

Rudhyar, Dane

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Tibbett, Lawrence

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Thomson, Virgil

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The hymn is How Firm a Foundation, words and music commonly ascribed to Robert Keene. The melody is also called Geard. Also quoted Yes, Jesus Loves Me and For He's A Jolly Good Fellow. Composed 1926-28. First performance New York, 22 February 1945, New York Philharmonic, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony on a hymn tune / Virgil Thomson. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56078995 Composer. ...

Kay, Ulysses

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Barati, George

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Engel, A.

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Massachusetts, Office of the Governor

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Korngold, Erich

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Sargent, Malcolm

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Zighera, Georgette

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Gaveau, Marcel

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Naumoff, Maria "Marusia"

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Sevitzky, Fabien, 1891-1967

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Wolfes, Felix, 1892-1971

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Felix Wolfes was a German-born composer, conductor, pianist, and educator. Born to Jewish parents in Hannover, his career in Germany included studies under Max Reger, Robert Teichmüller, Richard Strauss, and Hans Pfitzner. He emigrated to France and then the United States where he worked first as assistant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera in New York (N.Y.), then teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music for two decades. From the guide to the Felix Wolfes additional paper...

Lytle, Mrs. Helen H.

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Chapple, Barbara

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Oubradous, Fernand

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Burkat, Leonard

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Schnéevoigt, Sigrid

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Griffis, Elliot

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Composed 1925; rev. 1940. First performance by the WNYC Concert Orchestra of the WPA, New York, Jan. 28, 1940, broadcast over Station WNYC, Macklin Marrow conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of A Persian fable : ballade for orchestra / Ellis Griffis. 1940. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52093618 Composed 1925-26. Rewritten 1931 and again 1934.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Paul Bunyan, Colossus : ...

Sondheimer, Robert

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de Schloezer, Boris

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Baldwin Piano Company

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Chernyk, Maurice, M.D.

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Boutnikoff, Ivan

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Haensel & Jones

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Leplin, Emanuel

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Forbes, Elizabeth

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Epithet: née Douglas wife of Alexander 1st Baron Forbes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000376 ...

Brailovsky, Alexander

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Barere, Simon, 1896-1951

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Naumov, Dinah, 1940-1975, n.d.

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Poulenc, Francis

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Composer. From the description of Francis Poulenc autograph letter to [Jay S. Harrison], [1953] July 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 476902904 French composer. From the description of Discours du Général / (Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel) / Francis Poulenc / (1921). Avril 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270568728 From the description of Autograph note signed on his visiting card, dated : [Paris, n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.]. (Unkn...

Spalding, Alexandrine

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Konius, Georgii

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Casadesus, Régina Patorni

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Kaminski, Heinrich, 1886-1946

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German composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Ried, 14 November 1926, to an unidentified conductor, 1926 Nov. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578752 ...

Chepelev, Fëdor

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Carvalho, Eleazar de

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Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

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Author; interviewee married Alan Campbell. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Rothschild Parker : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158240 Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in an upper-middle-class family of mixed heritage. Estranged from her parents due to her dislike of her strict, devout stepmother, she read voraciously and wrote verse. Seeking a career in literature, she worked for Vogue,...

Buck, Dudley, 1839-1909

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Composed c. 1879. First performed Music Teachers' National Assoc., Indianapolis. This work is not connected to Buck's 1868 organ work, "Concert variation on The Star-Spangled Banner".--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Festival overture : on the American national air, the star spangled banner / Dudley Buck. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43310428 American composer and organist. From the description of Autograph letter...

Édition Russe de Musique, 1923-1950, n.d.

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Sleeper, Henry

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Siqueira, José de Lima

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Dreyfus, Carl, 1931-1950, n.d.

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Rochut, M.

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Spelman, Timothy

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Higginson, Ida, 1924-1931, n.d.

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Vladimirov, Mikhail

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Gaubert, Philippe.

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000446.0x0001ff ...

Graudan, Nikolai

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Heller, James G.

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Originally composed for voice and string quartet. Transcribed for string orchestra, 1935.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Elegie and pastorale : for string orchestra / by James Heller. 1934. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52278462 Rabbi and composer, of Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1905-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 32822190 Rabbi, composer, and musician, of Cincinnati, Ohio. ...

Borovsky, Alexander, 1889-1968

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Murray, Edward

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American author, biographer, and film historian. From the guide to the Edward Murray book manuscripts, 1976, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Chasins, Constance Keene

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Rathaus, Karol

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x00030e ...

Polatschek, Viktor

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Bax, Arnold

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English composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3), 2 of them partly in Gaelic, dated : [London], to Keith, [n.y.] Apr. 30 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672058 Composed ca. 1921. Published in Volume I, number 3 (November 1, 1921) of the magazine Fanfare, a Musical Causerie, edited by Leigh Henry and published by Goodwin & Tabb, London.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fanfare (Hasting [sic] at dawn) / Arnol...

Amfiteatrov, Maksim

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McKay, George

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Szigeti, Joseph

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Joseph Szigeti (1892-1973) was an American violinist of Hungarian birth. He studied first with his father, then with Jeno Hubay. He settled in the United States in 1940 and became a citizen in 1951. His true strength was contemporary music, and he often forced concert managers to include contemporary pieces in concert programs. He was friends with Bartok and several other prominent composers, many of whom dedicated works to him. He played a Guarneri violin, and held his bow in the old fashioned ...

Leroux, Germaine

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Strauss, Paul

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Koster, Henry

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Krauss, Clemens, 1893-1954

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Rodzinski, Halina

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Wife of conductor Artur Rodzinski, assistant conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 22, 1976 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862517 ...

Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936

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Russian author. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete at end and lacking signature) : [n.p.], to Walter Mett, 1922 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269563164 Russian novelist. From the description of Maksim Gorky appeal, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869098 Author. From the description of Papers of Maksim Gorky, 1922-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454921 880-11 Russkiĭ...

Dubenskii, Arkadii

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Pattison, Lee

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Carl Baermann (9 July 1839 in Munich-17 January 1913) was a pianist who studied with Franz Lachner and Peter Cornelius in Munich and later became a pupil and friend of Franz Liszt. He moved to the Boston area in America in 1881 where he became a successful pianist and teacher; Amy Beach and Frederick Converse were among his pupils. He also composed a number of works for piano solo and with orchestra. Lee Pattison (July 22, 1890, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin - December 22, 1966, Claremont, California)...

Polivanova, Mariia Naumova

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Fuchs, Joseph

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Moyse, Marcel, 1889-1984

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Marcel Moyse was a renowned flutist, teacher and chamber music coach in addition to being an amateur artist of some accomplishment. Moyse was born on May 17, 1889 in Saint Amour, France. At age 15, he traveled to Paris to live with his uncle, a professional cellist. In 1906, Moyse studied flute with Paul Taffanel and won the premier prix at the Paris Conservatoire. Moyse was a soloist in the Opera-Comique in Paris from 1913 to 1938. He first toured America in 1913. Moyse...

Horowitz, Vladimir

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Russian-born pianist. From the description of The papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, 1784-1991 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702150358 Vladimir Horowitz (in Russian, Gorowitz) was born in Berdichev, near Kiev, on October 1, 1903. His father, Simeon, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Sophie, a pianist. It was Sophie who gave Volodya (as he was affectionately called), his sister, Regina, and brothers Jacob and George, ...

Perlman, Itzhak, 1945-

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Izhak Perlman (b. Aug. 31, 1945, Tel Aviv, British Palestine) is a violisit, conductor, music teacher. He studied at the Julliard School under Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay. In 1958 and 1964 he perfomred on the Ed Sullivan Show and made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1963. He currently teaches at the Julliard School and is the founder Perlman Music Program. In the early 2000s, Perlamn began conducting in early 2000s. He plays the Soil Stradivarius violin of 1714, Guarneri del Gesu 1743 'Sauret', a...

Behre, Frances Downes

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Bingham, Seth

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Broadhurst, Cecil

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Ushkov, Sofiia, 1920-1977, n.d.

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Rostovtzeff, Mikhail

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Hammer, Heinrich

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Mager, Claire

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Childs, Barney

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Wolkonsky, Elena

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Totenberg, Roman

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Pick-Mangiagalli, Riccardo

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Komisarevskii, Fëdor

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Van Vechten, Carl

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Zighéra, Léon

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Canteloube, Joseph, 1879-1957

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First performed in Paris at the Opéra, 26 June 1933. Cf. New Grove opera. From the description of Vercingétorix : epopée lyrique en 4 actes : poème de Etienne Clémental et J.H. Louwyck, musique de Joseph Canteloube (1930-1931) : manuscript, 1932, Mai. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232649264 Opera first performed in Paris at the Opéra, 26 June 1933. Cf. New Grove opera. From the description of Vercingétorix : epopée lyrique. 1. Fanfare / de MM....

Bukinik, Mikhail

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Spisak, Michal

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Hilsberg, Aleksandr

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Teslenko, Nikolai

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Crist, Bainbridge, 1883-1969

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Composed 1939. First performance by the U.S. Marine Band Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C., Jan. 3, 1940, Capt. W.F.H. Santelmann conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Festival overture / Bainbridge Crist. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45207071 Composed 1914, based on the romance by Théophile Gautier. First performance by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, Bournemouth, England, Dec. 3, 1925, the composer conductin...

Wulsin, Peggy

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Bloch, Ernest.

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Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1900-1953

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First performance by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden, Germany, 29 April 1930, the composer conducting, Carl Flesch, soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for violin and orchestra / Nicolai T. Berezowsky. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42890645 Violinist, conductor, member of the Coolidge String Quartet, composer in the burgeoning era of "American music." From the description of Nicolai Bere...

Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Strube, Gustav

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Starer, Robert

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Hurok, Sol

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Carol, Norman

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Violinist; concertmaster of Philadelphia Orchestra, 1966- . From the description of Oral history conducted by Sharon Eisenhour, November 8, 1991. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155896120 From the description of Oral history conducted by Sharon Eisenhour, November 25, 1991. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155896118 ...

Schindler, Eleonora Nikisch

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László, Alexander

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Bal'mont, Konstantin

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Romanoff, Nikita

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Kal', Aleksei

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Vasticar, Emmeline

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Koshetz, Marina, 1945-1957, n.d.

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Luboshutz, Lea

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Stravinsky, Fëdor

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Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile

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Engel, Carl, 1927-1933

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Rautavaara, Einojuhani, 1928-....

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Finnish composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Espoo, Finland, 18 August 1982, to Joan Peyser, 1982 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270992660 ...

Butnikov, Ivan

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Boynet, Emma

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Ide, Chester

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Forbes, Josephine.

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Il'ina, Natal'ia

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Clapp, Alice

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Perlis, Vivian.

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) ranks among the most widely respected of all American composers. Born in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish family, Copland studied with Rubin Goldmark in New York and Nadia Boulanger in France. His music, which drew upon sources as disparate as jazz, neoclassicism, folk music, and serialism, helped establish an American musical vocabulary, and his most popular works, such as Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man, have reached audiences far beyond the...

Hirshman, Henrietta

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Kostritskii, Sergei

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Walton, William, 1784-1857

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Epithet: of Kingston-onThames British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000027 Epithet: of Add MS 38296 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000024 Epithet: British Agent at Hayti British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000202 Epithet: wr...

Vrionides, Christos

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Szeryng, Henryk

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Born on January 10, 1910 in Lyon, the French conductor and composer, Jean Martinon entered the Lyon and Paris conservatoires to study the violin. At Lyon, his teacher was Maurice Foundray and at the Paris Conservatory, he studied violin technique with Jules Boucherit. While at the Paris conservatory, Martinon took composition with Albert Roussel and Vincent d’Indy. After completing the composition courses, he studied conducting with Charles Munch and Désormière. He graduated from ...

Naumova, Anna Ushkova

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Babin, Vitya

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Gilbert, Henry F.

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Biography The composer Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert was born in Somerville, Massachusetts on September 26, 1868. The product of a musical family, Gilbert studied violin, piano, composition, and theory at the New England Conservatory under Edward MacDowell, a leading composer at the turn of the twentieth century. Gilbert's travels within and outside the United States exposed him to the music of non-European cultures, which inspired him to co...

Maréchal, Maurice

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Reed, H. Owen, 1910-2014

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Composed 1940. First performance as Overture: 1940, Rochester, N.Y, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture / Owen Reed. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53706507 ...

Meyer, Agnes

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Chávez, Carlos

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Arányi, Juliette

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McKinley, Carl, 1895-1966

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Composer, organist, choir director and educator. Member of the composition faculty at New England Conservatory of Music 1929-1963; chairman of theory and composition, 1955-1963. From the description of Carl McKinley printed and ms. music, 1916-1955. (New England Conservatory of Music). WorldCat record id: 82369627 Composed 1939. First performance Rochester, New York, 29 October 1941, Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. ...

Sorin, Savelii

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Wood, Henry J.

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Mainardi, Enrico, 1897-1976

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Kirkpatrick, Ralph

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Fromm, Herbert

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Pregel, Boris

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Akatova, Zinaida

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Parrish, Constance, 1948-1965, n.d.

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Nata, Nathalie

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Page, Willis

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Kipnis, Alexander

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Polivanov, Lialia Blinova

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Braun, Harry

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Levenson, Boris, 1884-1947

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Eitingon, Matvei

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Eitingon, Motty

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Kusevitskii, Raia

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Reiner, Carlotta

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Mehta, Zubin

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000624.0x0002e7 Conductor. From the description of Oral history conducted by Sharon Eisenhour, February 12, 1991. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155891558 Conductor. Mehta has been the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic since 1978. From the description of Correspondenc...

Lazar, Filip

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LaViolette, Wesley

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Based on 11 American university songs. Composed 1934. First performance Chicago, 21 July 1936, Chicago Philharmonic, Richard Czerwonky conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Collegiana : festival rapsody [i.e. rhapsody] for orchestra / by Wesley La Violette. 1934. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52688798 Composed 1934-36. First performance Rochester, NY, 19 October, 1933, Rochester Civic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor.--Cf. Fl...

Casadesus, Henri, 1922[?]-1950, n.d.

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D'Alessandro, Raffaele

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Berwald, William

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Musician, composer, professor of music. From the description of Faculty and Staff, William Henry Berwald, 1864-1948 papers, 1901-1944. 1901-1944. (Syracuse University). WorldCat record id: 122684416 ...

Klemperer, Otto, 1885-1973

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Johanna Klemperer (born Geissler; d. 1956) was an operatic singer and Otto Klemperer's wife; Lotte Klemperer (1923-2003) was their daughter. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1910-1959. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863663 Conductor and composer. Otto Klemperer (b. May 14, 1885 in Breslau, Germany; d. July 6, 1973 in Zurich) is known particularly for conducting orchestral music by Beethoven, Bruckner, Mozart, and Mahler, an...

Weisgall, Hugo

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Hugo Weisgall was born at Eibenschütz (Ivanice), Moravia on October 13, 1912 and emigrated to the United States as a child. Growing up in Baltimore, his first musical influence was his father, Adolph J. Weisgal (1885 - 1981), a cantor for the Chizuk Amuno Congregation in that city. Becoming an American citizen in 1926, his formal musical education began at the Peabody Conservatory (1927 - 1932). In the years that followed (1932 - 1941) he worked periodically with Roger Sessions, stu...

Cabot, Maria

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Dawson, William L. (William Levi), 1899-1990

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William Levi Dawson (1899-1990), African American composer, conductor, and educator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, the oldest of the seven children of George W. Dawson, an illiterate day laborer and former slave, and Eliza Starkey Dawson. Dawson married Cecile Demae Nicholson in 1935. A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Dawson composed the NEGRO FOLK SYMPHONY and arranged a number of African American spirituals. He also conducted the Tuskegee Institute Choir for 25 years. Dawson died May 2, 1...

Monteux, Doris G. (Doris Gerald), 1895-1984

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Weir, Judith

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Husa, Karel

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Istomin, George

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Shteĭnberg, Maksimilian, 1883-1946

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Perkins, Gloria

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Demuth, Norman, 1898-1968

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Norman Demuth was an English composer, musician, educator, and author. He played the organ, composed, and conducted in the provinces before joining the Royal Academy of Music, where he had a long tenure as composition instructor. Largely self-taught as a composer, his most significant influences were French, and he composed dramatic, vocal, orchestral, chamber, and solo pieces. He also wrote musical biographies and criticism. From the description of Norman Demuth letter to Dear Mr. E...

Roussel, Blanche, 1939-1949

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Hanson, Howard, 1925-1974, n.d.

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Fox, James Ingram

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Black, Helen

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Rieti, Vittorio

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Sheinfeld, David

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Thorne, Francis

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American jazz musician and composer. From the description of Interview, Dec. 2, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861548 Prolific American composer Francis Thorne (born 1922) is well known for his work in a variety of genres, as well as for his service in music administration. Born in Bay Shore, New York, Thorne came from a musical family. His father had been a ragtime pianist and his grandfather, Gu...

Verbrugghen, Henri

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Wagner, Joseph

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Joseph Wagner was likely born in Baden, Germany, one of nine children. He left Germany for the U.S. in 1868 where he worked briefly in St. Louis, Missouri, but was in Helena, Montana Territory by 1869. He later married Mary Elizabeth LeMaster and they had at least two children. His brothers, Sebastian and Isador, eventually came to Montana as well, and they acquired adjoining acreage near Florence, Montana. Joseph Wagner likely died on May 17, 1915. From the guide to the...

Chazen, David

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Spector, Mrs. Albert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c08868 (person)

Arbós, Enrique

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Wittgenstein, Paul, 1887-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61z5t86 (person)

Downes, Edward

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000211 ...

Dumler, Martin G.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm5gd0 (person)

Siloti, Alexander, 1863-1945

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Muromtseva, Mariia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cm0jp1 (person)

Carpenter, John Alden, 1926-1974

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Heathcock, Gladys

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Paderewski, Ignacy Jan, 1860-1941

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Polish pianist, composer, and statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., n.d.], to an unidentified recipient, n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674147 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Morges, 12 December 1938], to Mr. & Mrs. H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1938 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674145 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Morges], 2 September 1928, to Alfred Cortot...

Eldridge, Mrs. Edric

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg7x09 (person)

Musgrave, Thea

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White, Paul, 1944 August 18-

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Sutro, Ottilie

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Loos, Arwin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jf7322 (person)

Lipkin, Seymour

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Kroll, Pearl

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Skilton, Charles Sanford, 1868-1941

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Originally composed for organ, 1920. Transcribed 1929. First performance Interlochen, Michigan, 14 August 1932, National High School Orchestra, Vladimir Bakaleinikov conductor, Philip Abbas soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of American Indian fantasy : for violoncello and orchestra / by Charles Sanford Skilton. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54759815 Skilton received his A.B. from Yale in 1889. He joined the faculty of KU ...

Hoérée, Arthur

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Spivakovsky, Tossy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b97bps (person)

Dorati, Antal

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w66nsd (person)

Kirchner, Leon

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Leon Kirchner (1919 - 2009) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to Russian Jewish immigrants, his family moved to Los Angeles when he was nine years old. He studied with Ernst Bloch while attending the University of California at Berkeley. Bloch recommended Kirchner to Arnold Schoenberg, who became Kirchner's primary mentor and influence; he also studied with Roger Sessions. Kirchner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1948, after which he taugh...

Branscombe, Gena

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Conductor and composer. From the description of Gena Branscombe collection of noncommercial sound recordings [sound recording], 1935-1981. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122346204 From the guide to the Gena Branscombe collection of noncommercial sound recordings [sound recording], 1935-1981, (The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.) ...

Dixon, Dean

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Brainina, Balbina

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj8m82 (person)

Rodgers, Richard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c087dj (person)

Kurtz, Edward

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6583d41 (person)

Drdla, Franz

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt5vj3 (person)

Khachaturian, Aram

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp5979 (person)

Kachouk, Michel, 1922-1953, n.d.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6195953 (person)

Hayton, Mrs. M. S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pm2j12 (person)

Holbrooke, Josef

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Spalding, Walter

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Kennedy, Edward

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Vakhromeeva, Sandra

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Dobrovein, Issay

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Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Alfred A. Knopf and his wife, Blanche Knopf. From the description of Letters, 1928-1944, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155870929 Publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred A. Knopf : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743309 American publisher. From the description of Typed letters signed (1...

Rabenek, Artemii

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Shostakovich, Dmitri, 1929-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6583dzs (person)

Rostovtsev, Mikhail

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xq972n (person)

Binder, Abraham

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m44z54 (person)

Aiken, Mrs. Conrad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63p4630 (person)

Milstein, Nathan, 1903-1992

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Halffter, Ernesto

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Spanish composer and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Lisbon May 23 1929, to Louise Alvar, 1929 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665268 ...

Eppert, Carl

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Ampenova, Valeriia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fw0n31 (person)

Little, Willoughby

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Weaver, Powell, 1890-1951

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Composed 1925. First performance Boston, 14 April 1929, Boston Women's Symphony Orchestra, Ethel Leginska conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of The little faun / by Powell Weaver. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56943994 Composed 1947. First performance Kansas City, Missouri, 14 Octorber 1947, Kansas City Philharmonic, Efrem Kurtz conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fugue for strings / ...

Chesnokov, Aleksandr

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Musician. From the description of Aleksandr Chesnokov Manuscript and Photographs, 1926. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320408964 ...

Kreisler, Fritz

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Originally composed for violin and piano. Attributed by Kreisler to Pugnani when first published by Carl Fischer in 1910. This transcription 1919.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Praeludium und Allegro / A. Pugnani- F. Kreisler. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52596205 Fritz Kreisler (b. Feb. 2, 1875, in Vienna; d. Jan. 29, 1962, in New York) was a violinist and composer. From the description of Fritz Kreisler colle...

Singer, Jacques

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Cowell, Sidney

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McDonald, Harl

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Composed 1938. First performance Boston, 30 October 1939, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of San Juan Capistrano : two nocturnes for orchestra / Harl McDonald. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52938443 Composed 1934. First performance Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, 4 October 1935, Leopold Stokowski conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description o...

Sirota, Peter

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Zalstem-Zalessky, Evangeline Stokowski

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Evlogii, Metropolitan-Archbishop

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Howe, Mary

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Tansman, Alexandre, 1924-1950, n.d.

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Fedorov, Ivan

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Kodály, Emma

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Brosa, Antonio, 1894-1979

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Britain, Radie

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Composed 1936-37. First performance by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra of the Works Project Administration, Chicago, Mar. 4, 1940, Izler Solomon conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Southern symphony : in four movements / Radie Britain. 1937. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43291270 Composed 1940. First performance Rochester, New York, 25 July 1940, Rochester Philharmonic, Howard Hanson conductor. Won the First National Prize of...

Read, Gardner

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Gabrilowitsch, Osip

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Obukhov, Nikolai

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Foote, Arthur

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Fontana, John

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Saar, Louis

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Baldin, Siluan

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Shankar, Uday

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Schillinger, Joseph

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Commissioned for radio performance by RCA, 1930. Composed 1930.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of North-Russian symphony, op. 22 / Joseph Schillinger. [1930] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54053672 Joseph Schillinger was a composer and teacher of musical composition who combined the study of aesthetics and the study of science in such theoretical writings as the "Schillinger System of Musical Compositon" and "The Mathematical Basis of ...

Kunze, Max.

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Pel'tser, Liudmila "Lucy"

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Loomis, Julia S.

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Milhaud, Madeleine.

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Cousin and wife of Darius Milhaud. From the description of Printed Christmas card signed and autograph postal card signed, dated : [Oakland, 24 December 1962 and Aspen, 24 June 1967], to Joseph Chouinard, 1962 Dec. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270958304 ...

Engalycheva, Sonia

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Drummond, Dean, 1949-2013

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Sorin, Savely

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Antoniou, Theodore

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Cherkassky, Paul

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Tourel, Jennie

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Laloy, Louis

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Stahl, Albert

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Dideriks, Andrei

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Mravinsky, Evgenii

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Kœchlin, Charles, 1867-1950

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Suggested by the 1st chapter of Le Voyage d'Urien by André Gide. Composed 1934. Orchestrated 1935. First performance Paris, 14 June 1938, Chant du Monde Orchestra, Roger Désormière conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Le voyage d'Urien, ou, Hymne à la jeunesse : d'apres le 1er chapitre du Voyage d'Urien / Ch. Koechlin. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52606160 "Commissioned by the state." Composed 1943. Orchestrated 19...

Cooper, Emil 1877-1960

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Martelli, Henri

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Sembrich, Marcella

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Polish soprano, later naturalized American. From the description of Autograph letters signed (34, six written and signed by Guillaume Stengel Sembrich, one by Juliette de Coppet), dated : New York, Lake Placid, Miami, [and other places, and n.p.], 1915-1934, to Harry Harkness Flagler, to Mrs. Flagler, and to Mr. & Mrs. Flagler, 1915 Jan. 6. and 1916 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270669747 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 21 Feb...

Gruenberg, Louis, 1884-1964

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Commissioned by Columbia Broadcasting Corporation for radio performance. Presented 17 October, 1937 as the first opera composed for radio without any thought of visualization or the additional theatrical elements of costumes, scenery and lighting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Green mansions : a non-visual opera after W.H. Hudson / by Louis Gruenberg. [1937?]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 176632275 Composed 1945.--Cf. Fleisher Co...

Lattuada, Felice, 1882-1962

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Mengelberg, Willem

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Bysterus Heemskerk, a violinist, was Mengelberg's assistant and archivist. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1938-1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863936 ...

Dahl, Ingolf

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sx8bt6 (person)

d'Aranyi, Jelly

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dw3m5b (person)

Tille, Ivan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hf9z6n (person)

Klemperer, Lotte

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Lotte Klemperer (1923-2003) was the daughter of Otto Klemperer (1885-1973). From the description of Correspondence to Adolf Klarmann, 1973. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863661 ...

Santa Cruz, Domingo

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Napravnik, Vladimir

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Sevitzky, Fabien, 1922-1950, n.d.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60q32cz (person)

Foote, Doris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp5bk6 (person)

Andrushkevich, Aleksandr

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6206712 (person)

Bucky, Frida

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm5hg9 (person)

Siloti, Levko

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Primrose, William

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William Primrose (1904-1982) was a professional violist who performed with groups in England and the United States, and later taught at several universities, including Brigham Young University. John Primrose, William's father, taught violin and gave William his start when he was four years old. By age twelve he had made public appearances. When William was about fifteen, the family moved to London where Primrose attended the Guildhall School of Music and began to study v...

Ivantsov, Ivan

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Bellison, Simeon

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Laurent, Georges.

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Morris, Wyn

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Brussel, Robert

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Vernet, Katia Hirshman

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Haughton, Marian, 1925-1954, n.d.

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Wladimirsky, Aleksandr

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Olga Samaroff Stokowski

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Loeffler, Charles Martin, 1861-1935

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Composed 1915. First performance Boston, 2 March 1917, Boston Symphony, Carl Muck conductor. Dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Carl Stoeckel.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Hora mystica : symphony in one movement for grand orchestra and men's voices / composed by Ch. M. Loeffler. 1915. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52731937 Charles Martin Loeffler was born on January 30, 1861. His place of birth is disputed; he claimed to be Alsatian, bu...

MacKinnon, Lilias, 1925-1951, n.d.

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Kreinin, Evgeniia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63g6qt9 (person)

Hayton, Shura

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Tortelier, Paul, 1914-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t272h (person)

Orlov, Sergei

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Alexander, Josef

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Zeisl, Eric

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Kleinsinger, George, 1914-1982

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American composer. From the description of "Song of the Broad-Axe / George Kleinsinger / Text by Whitman" : autograph manuscript, 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566540 ...

Siloti, Marusia

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Montemezzi, Italo, 1875-1952

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Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Milan, [n.d., ca. 1913?], to Sig. [Giuseppe?] Albinati, [n.d., ca. 1913?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582597 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Milan, 14 April 1931, to [Bruno] Zirato, 1931 Apr. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270900762 Montemezzi emigrated to California in 1939. He was apparently a friend of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel from at least 1942, when they ...

Hale, Irene

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Knut, Elizabeth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z441xx (person)

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Actress. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1920]-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507628 Tallulah (Tallulah Brockman) Bankhead was born 1902 Jan. 31 to William B. and Ada Eugenia Sledge Bankhead in Huntsville, Madison Co., Ala. She attended primary school in Montomery, Ala., while living with her uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Owen. She later attended Convent of the Sacred Heart (N.Y.), 1912-1913; Mary Baldwin Seminary (Va.), 1913; Convent of t...

Iserlis, IUlius

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Hutcheson, Ernest, 1871-1951

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Dedicated to the music school settlements of New York City.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of March for two pianos and orchestra of strings / Ernest Hutcheson. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52333095 ...

Stock, Frederick

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Bortkiewicz, Serge

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Matzenauer, Adrienne Myerberg

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Nikolaev, V. F.

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Mimart, Paul

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Chadwick, George Whitefield

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George Whitefield Chadwick (b. Lowell, MA, 13 November 1854; d. Boston, MA, 4 April 1931) was an American composer, teacher, organist and conductor. Beginning in 1872, Chadwick studied organ with George E. Whiting, piano with Carlyle Petersilea , and theory with Stephen A. Emery at the New England Conservatory in Boston. In 1876 Chadwick accepted a faculty position within the music program at Olivet College in Michigan. A year later Chadwick went to Germany where he studied with Karl Reinecke, S...

Lourié, Arthur, 1921-1957, n.d.

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Abell, Arthur, 1923-1968, n.d.

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Schmitz, Elie Robert

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Moltrasio

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Krein, IUlian

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Johnson, Mordecai W.

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African American minister and educator; president of Howard University (1926-1960). From the description of Papers, 1913-1976. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941398 1890 January 12 Born to Carolyn Freeman and Wyatt Johnson in Paris, Tennessee 1911 Received Bachelor of Arts degree from Atlanta Baptist [later Morehous...

de Carvalho, Eleazar, 1944-1975, n.d.

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Hrisanide, Alexandru

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Thomas, Mrs. Theodore

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Konzertdirektion Sigmund M. Rosner

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Warren, Elinor Remick, 1900-1991

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Original title: Frolic of the elves. Originally composed for piano, 1937. First performance of this transcription Los Angeles, 1937, KHJ Radio Orchestra.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Frolic of the elves / by Elinor Remick Warren. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56906151 Composed 1949-50.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of The sleeping beauty / Elinor Remick Warren ; [text by] Alfred Tennyson "The s...

Stransky, Josef

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Sanin, Aleksandr

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Caldwell, Sarah

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Fisher, William Arms

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Writer on music and musical arranger. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, on Oliver Ditson Company letterhead : Boston, Mass., to J. Francis Cooke, 1920 Jan. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270935618 ...

Kurka, Robert, 1921-1957

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Kountz, Frederick

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Dutilleux, Henri, 1916-2013

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Born on January 10, 1910 in Lyon, the French conductor and composer, Jean Martinon entered the Lyon and Paris conservatoires to study the violin. At Lyon, his teacher was Maurice Foundray and at the Paris Conservatory, he studied violin technique with Jules Boucherit. While at the Paris conservatory, Martinon took composition with Albert Roussel and Vincent d’Indy. After completing the composition courses, he studied conducting with Charles Munch and Désormière. He graduated from ...

Kusevitskii, Aleksandr

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Vladimirov, Nikolai

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Chaliapin, Fëdor

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Hirshman, Wladimir, 1922-1969, n.d.

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Koshetz, Nina, 1894-1965

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Koshetz was born on Dec. 30, 1894 in Kiev; studied piano as a child, then began to study singing; toured Russia with Sergei Rachmaninoff, singing his songs; came to the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution; appeared as a soloist with major American orchestras, and sang recitals of Russian songs; came to Calif. in 1941 and devoted herself to teaching; she died on May 14, 1965 in Santa Ana, Calif. From the description of Collection of song and aria arrangements, 1925-1935. (University o...

Curtis, Edgar

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Hill, Valentina

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Woodworth, G. Wallace

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Woodworth graduated from Harvard in 1924 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Wallace Woodworth, 193?-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973226 ...

Piston, Walter

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Johnson, Thor

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Alekseeva, E.

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Thaw, Mrs. Edward

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Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942

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Mikhail Fokine, Russian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and ballet director, was born in St. Petersburg May 5, 1880. He was trained at the Imperial Theatre School, St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1898. He was a dancer and choreographer at the Maryinsky Theatre and teacher at the Imperial Theatre School. His choreography for the Maryinsky included The Dying Swan for Anna Pavlova and Le Pavillion d'Armide. From 1909-1912, Fokine was chief choreographer for Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, p...

Henschel, George

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Sir George Henschel was a German-English composer, conductor, and baritone. He was the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in addition to many appointments in England. His diverse compositions and arrangements showed influences of Brahms and Wagner. He was also professor of singing at the Royal College of Music. From the description of George Henschel letter to Mr. Greene, 1890 June 12. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53917419 Ger...

Paray, Paul, 1886-1979

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Ziloti, Aleksandr

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Smit, Leo, 1900-1943

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Tansman, Alexandre, 1897-1986

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x000165 French composer, conductor, and pianist of Polish origin. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Palma de Mallorca, 4 September 1932, to an unidentified recipient, 1932 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270676566 From the description of "Deux Chansons (André Spire). I. Ne [and II. Possession.] Alexand...

Bornschein, Franz C. (Franz Carl), 1879-1948

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Composed 1935. First performance Baltimore, 23 February, 1936 Ernest Schelling conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Leif Ericson : for symphony orchestra / Franz C. Bornschein. 1935. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43270152 Composed 1922 as Three Persian tone poems. First performance of that version Baltimore, the Lyric Theatre, 10 December 1922, the composer conducting. Rewritten in present form 1940. Also known as Feast of Lig...

Yokounchikoff, Varvara

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Auer, Leopold

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Epithet: composer and violinist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x00008d ...

Pickman, Dudley

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Rubinstein, Beryl, 1898-1952

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Composed 1925-26. First performance Cleveland, 17 March, 1927, Cleveland Orchestra, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Scherzo for orchestra / Beryl Rubinstein. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53942173 Composed 1935. First performance Cleveland, 12 November 1936, Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conductor, the composer as soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto i...

Naumov, Aleksandr, 1940-1975, n.d.

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Korganov, Vasilii

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Hull, Helen H.

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Kusevitskii, Lev

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Makanowitzky, Esther

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Barenboim, Aida

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Mennin, Peter

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Composer, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Peter Mennin : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733307 Commissioned by the Dallas Symphony League. Composed 1949-50. First performance Dallas, 2 April 1950, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hendl conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fifth symphony / Peter Mennin. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id...

Rabinoff, Max

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Russian-American impresario. From the description of Web of my life : typescript, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500728 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Musical impresario, international economist. From the guide to the Max Rabinoff Papers, 1908-1961, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Musical impresario, international economist. From the description of Papers, 1908-1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat...

Mitchell, Howard

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Hume, Paul Chandler

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Gange, Fraser

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Price, Lucien

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Fiedler, Ellen

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Damrosch, Mrs. Frank

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Rosenthal, Manuel

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Stringfield, Lamar

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Composed 1927. First performance Washington, DC, 14 February 1928, the Washington National Opera Association, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of The seventh queue : an imaginary ballet for full orchestra, opus 38 / by Lamar Stringfield. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 55651199 Composed 1924 as No. 1 of Indian Sketches, originally for flute and sting quartet. Orchestrated 1924. First performance New York, 6...

Clementi, Caroline

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Chesnokov, Galina Volikorskaia

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Ferroud, Pierre-Octave, 1900-1936

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Lévy, Ernst

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Weitzmann, Chaim

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Malkin, Joseph

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Parmet, Simon

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Antonetti, Alfredo

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Stout, Robert, 1844-1930

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Leonard, Clair

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Kindler, Hans

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Harrison, Beatrice

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Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

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The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC) emerged in 1941superseding several earlier committees and organizations that had been developed to secure humanitarian aid for refugees of the Spanish Civil War. Along with providing humanitarian aid, the JAFRC was “dedicated to the rescue and relief of thousands of anti-fascist fighters trapped in Vichy France, and North Africa so that they [could] return to the active fight against the Axis.” Dr. Edward Barsky, leader of American me...

Struv, Vera

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Gerhard, Poldi

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Hober, Beale

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Hallowell, N. Penrose "Buck", 1925-1953, n.d.

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Shapero, Harold

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Harmati, Sándor 1892-1936

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American violinist, conductor, and composer of Hungarian birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4), typewritten letter signed, and telegram dated : Omaha Feb. 13 1928, New York, February-March [1933], and Paris Apr. 18 [n.y.] to Mr. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1928 Feb. 13 and 1933 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665357 Composed 1924-25.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Primavera : episodes of youth : symphonic variation...

Tinayre, Yves

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Laberte, Marc

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Mitchell, Charles

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de Sinsay, Elaine

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Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1929-1953, n.d.

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