Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).
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Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896
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German pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Düsseldorf, 20 December 1856, to an unidentified recipient in Leipzig, 1856 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270900002 From the description of Autograph letter signed Clara Wieck, dated : Liebenstein Aug. 23 1840, to Herr [Ernest?] Montag in Weimar, 1840 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270669575 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Baden-B...
Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934
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Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Kahn was a well-known figure, appearing on the cover of Time magazine and was sometimes referred to as the "King of New York". In business, he was best known as a partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. who reorganized and consolidated railroads. In his personal life, he was a great patron of the arts, where among things, he served as the chairman of the Met...
Pupin, Michael, 1858-1935
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Columbia College, A.B., 1883; Columbia University, Doctor of Science, 1904; Professor of Electro-mechanics, 1901-1927. From the description of Papers, 1800-1995. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122600557 ...
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968
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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. He was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1913; he married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. Sulzberger broadened the Times’ use of background reporting, pictures, and feature articles, and expanded its sections. ...
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. ...
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943
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Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), American historian, writer, and editor, taught history and government at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1883 to 1926. Hart was born on July 1, 1854 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania to physician Albert Gaillard Hart and Mary Crosby Hornell Hart. He had a brother, Hastings Hornell Hart, and two sisters, Helen Marcia Hart and Jeannette M. Hart. The family moved to Ohio in 1860, eventually settling in Cleveland, where Hart graduated from West High Sc...
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...
Newberry Library
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Terry, Charles Sanford, 1864-1936
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Charles Sanford Terry (1864 - 1936), eldest son of Charles Terry, Newport Pagnell, graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, BA 1886, MA 1891. He was Lecturer in History at Durham College of Science, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1890 - 1898, joined the University of Aberdeen in 1898, and was made first Professor of History there, 1903 - 1930. An authority on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, and author of several books on the subject, including the much re-published Bach: a Biography (London: O...
Oberlin College
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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...
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 ...
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
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Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941
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George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England. Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860. His father, Edward "Kit" Lyman Kittredg...
Channing, Grace Ellery, 1862-1937
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Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine.Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine.Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine. She was born to William Francis Channing and Mary Jane (née Tarr) on December 27, 1862 in Providence, Rhode Island. Channing...
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
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Composer. From the description of Camille Saint-Saëns autograph letter to unidentified recipient, 1913 Mar. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 476902751 Saint-Saëns was known to have been composing the opera between 1881-1882. Cf. New Grove opera. From the description of Draft of the libretto of Henry VIII : manuscript, undated [between 1880 and 1883]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232649239 French composer, pianist, organist, and writer. ...
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....
Newman, Ernest
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Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000028 Born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina, and educated at Harvard, Owen Wister travelled in the Western U.S. as a young man. Although he returned to the East and Harvard law school, he acted upon a friend's suggestion and began writing thrilling Western stories for Harper's. His well-researched stories, particularly The Virginian, he...
Atlantic Monthly Press
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Nikisch, Arthur, 1855-1922
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Austro-Hungarian conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Wiesbaden, 18 June 1910, to the Arbeits-Komité des französischen Musikfestes in Munich, 1910 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582963 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Berlin, 29 June 1909, to Herr Harder, 1909 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582967 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, [21 June 1911], to Dr. Hei...
Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906
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Paine (1839-1906) was an American composer, organist, educator at Harvard University, and held the first chair of music in an American university. He was a charter member of the American Guild of Organists. From the guide to the Additional musical compositions, 1859-1939 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Paine received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1869 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of...
Boston Public Library
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Library of Congress
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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
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Columbia University
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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...
Putnam, Anne Eisner
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Anne Eisner Putnam (1911-1967) was a New York abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art. She was also one of the founders of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, and later a writer, her best known book being her account of her experiences in the former Belgian Congo, Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pygmies . Together with her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), she ran a compound known as Camp Putnam in the Congo (now...
Rice, Edwin T. (Edwin Thomas), 1862-1940
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Friskin, James, 1886-1967
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Gabrilowitsch, Ossip
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Fellowes, Edmund H., 1870-1951
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English clergyman and musical scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : the Cloisters, Windsor Castle, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1944 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527963 English editor, scholar, and cathedral musician. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Windsor Castle, 4 January 1944, to Sir Sydney [Cockerell], 1944 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270576802 ...
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941
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Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) was a book designer and printer in New England. He was born an only child in an old and well-connected New England family, but his father's death in 1877 prevented Updike from pursuing higher education. Updike's Episcopalian background greatly influenced both his character and his later work as a printer, and his intellectual and cultural character was molded by his mother, an antiquary and scholar of French and English literature. Updike's first book-related j...
Parker, Horatio W.
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Text is the German poem by Count Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg, translated into English by the composer's mother, Isabella Parker. Composed 1884. First performance Munich, 1884. Dedicated to Jules Jordan.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Ballade von Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg / komponirt von H.W. Parker. [18--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53114434 Text is the poem by J. de Beaufort, in French with English translatio...
Preussische Staatsbibliothek.
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Bispham, David Scull, 1857-1921
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American baritone. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to [Alfred?] Mapleson, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270501603 From the description of Letter signed, dated : London, [21 September 1898], to Mary Millais, 1898 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672758 From the description of Autograph letters signed (3), dated : New York, 1901, 1917, and 1918, to Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler (one is to Mr. Flagler), 1901 Jan. 6. (Unknow...
Frank La Forge
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United States. War Department
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Marcy served as Secretary of War under James K. Polk, 1845-1849. From the description of William L. Marcy letter : Washington [D.C.], to Col. J.D. Stevenson, New York City, ALS, 1846 June 26. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 43771263 Officer, Second U.S. Cavalry, 1868-1892. From the description of Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, 1870 Dec.15. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 43955079 U.S. gov...
Herriot, Edouard.
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Gilbert, Henry F. B. (Henry Franklin Belknap), 1868-1928
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American musician. From the description of Envelope, addressed to William Chauncy Langdon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [ca. 1917-1918]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122615678 Composed 1926. First performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia, March 16, 1928, Pierre Monteux conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Nocturne / Henry F. Gilbert. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51998015 American co...
Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959
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Architect and collector of autographs. From the description of John Mead Howells collection of correspondence, 1894-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456141 John Mead Howells was a New York-based architect, best-known for his design for the Chicago Tribune Tower (1923), done with partner Raymond Hood. Howells studied architecture at Harvard and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was in practice with architect I. M. Phelps Stokes before joining Hood. During the 192...
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
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Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916
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Astronomer; founder of an observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. Known especially for his interest in Mars and his theory of the 'canals' of Mars, which this document illustrates. From the description of Letter and photograph, 1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78630761 Percival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University from 1872-1876 and graduated with a B.A. degree with honors in mathematics. He also received ho...
J. A. (John Alexander) Fuller-Maitland
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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...
Hugh Percy Allen
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University of Michigan. School of Music
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Predecessor organizations represented include the Ann Arbor School of Music and the University School of Music. From the description of School of Music (University of Michigan) records, 1880-[ongoing]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419778 Music instruction at the University of Michigan was established by the Board of Regents on the recommendation of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in 1880, making it one of the first universitie...
Century Association (New York, N.Y.)
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The Century Association or Club was a prominent New York social club, whose membership was primarily drawn from men involved with the arts. It held exhibitions and built a collection. From the description of Century Association records, 1829-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647986 ...
Svecˇenski, Louis
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Benjamin Godard.
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A. H. (Arthur Henry) Fox Strangways
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Indy, Vincent d'
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000321 ...
Aldrich, Amey
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K.F. Koehlers Antiquarium
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American Council of Learned Societies. Meeting
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Founded in 1919 to promote advancement of the humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies represents about 30 societies and association. Serves as the spokesgroup for the International Union of Academics. The Council publishes "Speculum" and "The Journal of the History of Ideas", and also helps administer the Fulbright Program. From the description of Collection, 1956-1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23196764 ...
Scalero, Rosario
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Italian pedagogue and composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Philadelphia, Oct. 20 1929 and 9 November [n.y.], to Mrs. [Mary Flagler] Cary, 1929 Oct. 20 and [n.y.] Nov. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668806 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Oct. 27 1920, to Mr. H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1920 Oct. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668809 ...
Flagler, Harry Harkness, 1870-
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American philanthropist and music patron. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 18 January 1948, to Wolfgang Rosé, 1948 Jan. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577400 ...
Peabody Conservatory of Music
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American Antiquarian Society
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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....
Sir George Henschel
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W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
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Delaware College
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Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
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Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. From the description of Carnegie autograph collection, 1867-1945. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122682758 From the guide to the Carnegie autograph collection, 1867-1945, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Andrew Carnegie was an industrialist and philanthropist. From the description of Address of Mr. Andrew Carnegie before the Pitt...
Aldrich, Richard, 1863-1937
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Richard Aldrich, theatrical producer. From the guide to the Scrapbook of clippings on his production of The importance of being Earnest, 1938-1939, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Richard Aldrich (1863-1937) graduated in 1885 from Harvard University, where he studied music with John Knowles Paine. After serving as music critic for the Providence Journal, the Evening Star in Washington, D.C., and various editorial posts at the New York Tribune, he ...
Rogers, Winthrop L.
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Epithet: music publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000177 ...
Curtis Institute of Music.
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Hempel, Frieda
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German soprano. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (3), autograph letters signed (2), and 2 photographs (one signed, one inscribed), dated : New York, 1950-51, to Harry Harkness Flagler (one is to Edward Roeder, Flagler's secretary), 1950 Mar. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665577 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Sils-Maria (Engadine, Switzerland) July 23 [n.y.], to Breitkopf & Härtel in Berlin. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...
Hill, Alfred Ebsworth, 1862-1940
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Coates, Albert
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Epithet: conductor and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x00002a ...
Three Choirs Festival
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Philadelphia orchestra
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James Huneker.
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Brussel, Robert
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Garrick Club (London, England)
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Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell
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Scottish composer, violinist, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Garden Cottages, Maidenshead, Berkshire ; and 15 Regents Park Road, N.W., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1886 Dec. 19 and 1889 July 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125470 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 15 Regent's Park Road, N.W., [London], to Herbert T. Sullivan. 1925 Nov. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125495 Scottish composer and conductor....
Royal College of Music (Great Britain)
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Gericke, Wilhelm, 1845-1925
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Gericke, an Austrian-born conductor and composer, was conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, from 1884 to 1889 and 1898 to 1906. From the description of Additional papers, ca. 1866-1906. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612679894 From the guide to the Wilhelm Gericke papers, 1876-1940., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for two terms (1884-1889) and (1898-1906). ...
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 ...
Upton, George P. (George Putnam), 1834-1919
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Beethoven Association (New York, N.Y.)
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The Beethoven Association came into existence in part because of displacement caused by World War I, and the inability of musicians to travel between the United States to Europe. Harold Bauer was elected first presidenct of the Association, and was among those responsible for setting up concerts to raise funds for worthy causes. The Association's initial season successfully raised money to fund publication of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's biography of Beethoven in English ...
Anton Rubinstein.
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Hans von Bülow.
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Huss, Henry Holden
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Epithet: pianist and composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x0000f0 ...
Piatti, Alfredo Carlo
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Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich Rand
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Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950
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Walter Johannes Damrosch (1862-1950) was a German-born conductor and composer in the U.S. From the description of Walter Damrosch presentation volume, 1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517384 From the guide to the Walter Damrosch presentation volume, 1928, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American conductor and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to "My dear and heaven sent Isadora ...
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956
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Rupert Hughes was born in Lancaster, MO on January 31, 1872, and grew up in Keokuk, Iowa. He attended the Western Reserve Academy, and received a BA from Adelbert College, Cleveland, in 1892, and an MA from Yale University in 1893. His writing career began with a book for boys which was serialized in the highly regarded St. Nicholas magazine, and he was an assistant editor for several magazines. He eventually wrote more than 50 books. Hughes served in the New York National Guard during the Spani...
Léo Delibes.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Reginald De Koven
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Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (1889-1983) was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was not called up due to ill health, but served as an Orderly Officer training troops in Cheshire and North Wales before working as a translator for MI5 and as an assistant to Frederick Marquis, later Lord Woolton, at the War Office. He later became a musician and conductor. From the guide to the Sir Adrian Boult papers, 1977, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Epithet: CH, co...
Scheurleer, Daniel François, 1855-1927
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Kogel, Gustav F.
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Elizabeth Morrow.
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Webber, Amherst
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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x0002c5 ...
Kelly, Cuthbert
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Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919
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Higginson was a Boston banker and philantropist; he donated Soldiers Field and Harvard Union to Harvard University. From the description of Papers relating to the gift of Soldiers Field, Harvard University, 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82295797 Higginson was a Boston banker and philanthropist. Higginson attended Harvard (1851-1852), but left because of poor eyesight. In 1856 he went to Vienna intending to make music his life work, but he returned to Boston...
Lehmann, Lilli
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Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-
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Educated Phillips Academy, Harvard. In 1880 he began working in the Paris office of the London Times. Met Edith Wharton when she moved to France in 1907. Their love affair lasted from 1908-1910. He later joined the staff of Le Figaro. From the description of William Morton Fullerton letter to Mrs. B. M. Fullerton [manuscript], 1907 April 22. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 278864337 William Morton Fullerton graduated from Harvard in 1886. From the d...
Frederic Austin.
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Weingartner, Felix, 1863-1942
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Austrian conductor, composer, and author. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Chemnitz, 28 January 1917, to Herr Dette, 1917 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874555 Austrian conductor, composer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Berlin, 14 February 1918, to an unidentified recipient, 1918 Feb. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679094 From the description of Partially printed document ...
Henderson, W. J. (William James), 1855-1937
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American music critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York] Dec. 27 1915, to Mrs. H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1915 Dec. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665586 ...
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...
Samuel, Harold
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Hale, Philip, 1854-1934
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American music critic. From the description of Letter, 1929 Nov. 24, Boston, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904183 From the description of Philip Hale letter to William M. Payne [manuscript], 1896 December 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 741779873 Philip Hale studied organ and piano as a boy, graduated from Yale University (A.B., 1876) and then apprenticed in a law office in Albany, N.Y., passing the New York Ba...
Spalding, Albert
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Royal Academy of Music (London, England : 1822- )
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Holst, Gustav
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Gustav Holst (1874-1934), composer and music teacher, was born in Cheltenham, and educated at the local grammar school and at the Royal College of Music. He taught at St Pauls Girls School, and composed many pieces, most notably The Planets. His daughter Imogen was educated at St Pauls and the Royal College of Music, and was among other appointments Director of Music at Dartington Hall, Devon. She wrote on a number of musical themes, but most significantly her father and Benjamin Britten, she be...
Yale University.
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R. O. (Reginald Owen) Morris
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Times (London, England).
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Besly, Maurice
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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0000fb ...
Thursby, Emma Cecilia, 1845-1931
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American soprano. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 22 February 1908], to Mr. & Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, 1908 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270677710 Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845-1931) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jane Bennett and John Barnes Thursby. Her siblings were Alice, John, Louis, and Ina. A singer of international reputation, Emma also taught a number of sucessful pupils and was active with the Green Acre reli...
Aldrich, Elisha S.
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MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956
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Philanthropist, musician, and cofounder of the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H. Born Marian Griswold Nevins; married composer Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) in 1884. From the description of Marian MacDowell papers, 1876-1969 (bulk 1908-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979848 Biographical Note 1857, Nov. 22 Born, New York, N.Y. ...
Clarence H. (Clarence Hungerford) MacKay
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Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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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...
Severn, Joan
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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...
Kinkeldey, Otto
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Otto Kinkeldey was an American musicologist. From the description of Papers, 1908-1962. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652126 From the guide to the Otto Kinkeldey papers, 1908-1962, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Professor of Music (1923-1927) and University Librarian (1930-1946), Cornell University. From the description of Otto Kinkeldey papers, 1902-1966. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63534706 ...
Salter, Sumner
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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...
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
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Lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Joseph Hodges Choate papers, 1745-1929 (bulk 1852-1917). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79700965 Prominent New York lawyer, diplomat, and leader in humanitarian and cultural affairs. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to John H. Stephens, Chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1916 Apr. 3. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34241616 Choate...
Fitzwilliam Museum
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Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 with a bequest to the University of Cambridge of the library and art collection of Richard, VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, along with funds to house them. The museum building, or the Founder's Building, opened to the public in 1848....
Blashfield, Edwin Howland
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Carreño, Teresa, 1853-1917
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Venezuelan pianist, composer, conductor, and singer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Kolberg, 25 July 1899, to an unidentified friend, 1899 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564134 Pianist and composer. From the description of Maria Teresa Carreño invitation to Miss A. M. Hale, [18--]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64757231 Epithet: pianist conductor and singer British Library Archives an...
Marguerite Sylva.
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Macmillan company
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The Macmillan Company was founded in 1869 as a branch in New York City of the British firm of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. of London. The company became autonomous in 1896 but the British firm maintained close ties and a strong financial interest in the company. The Macmillan Company attracted major American authors and published a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, reference works, and children's books. George Platt Brett, Jr. who became Macmillan's president in 1931, arranged for th...
Bauer, Harold
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Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0002f4 ...
Gilman, Lawrence.
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American music critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 1 December 1934, to Mr. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1934 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577872 From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : Geneva, New York, etc., to F.A. Duneka, 1909 Dec. 25-1910 May 26 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589421 Lawrence Gilman, American author and music critic, was born on July 5, 1878 in Flushing, New York to A...
Grubb, Albert E.
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Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939
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Edmund B. Wilson was a biologist and zoologist. From the description of Notebooks, 1875-1928. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488789 Edmund B. Wilson was a biologist and zoologist. Wilson was "among the most important and prolific biologists in the last part of the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth centuries" (Garland Allen). His scientific career may be divided into three major portions. In the first part, 1...
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908
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American composer, pianist, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Villars sur Ollon, Switzerland, 3 July 1903, to Horatio Parker, 1903 July 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581435 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 25 November 1904, to Mr. [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1904 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270581431 From the description of Letter signed : Boston, [n.d.], to Mr. Story, [n.d.]....
Whiting, Arthur
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Gigli, Beniamino
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Ebenezer Prout.
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Hanslick, Eduard, 1825-1904
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German music critic, aesthetician, musicologist, and civil servant. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna Dec. 29 1863, to Adelina [Patti], 1863 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665334 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna Jan. 31 1874, to Graf [A. Wicklenburg?], 1874 Jan. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665340 From the description of Autograph note on his visiting card, dated : Vienna, 22 April [no...
Schelling, Ernest
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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...
Carl Engel.
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Consumers' League of Rhode Island.
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Alexander Siloti.
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Aldrich, Richard Chanler.
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Howells, Mildred, 1872-....
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Poet and short story writer; daughter of William Dean Howells. From the description of God's will [manuscript], 1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 741786541 William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American author, editor, and critic. Mildred Howells was an author and Howells' daughter. In 1959, Van Wyck Brooks published a biography of Howells: Howells, his life and world. From the description of Mildred Howells correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks...
Foote, Arthur
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Foster, Roger, 1857-1924
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Eastman school of music
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Mason, Daniel Gregory
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Eminent American musician and composer. From the description of Papers, 1894-1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681505 Composed 1935-36. First performance New York, 17 November 1937, New York Philharmonic Society, John Barbirolli conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 3 : Lincoln, op. 35 / Daniel Gregory Mason. 1937. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 50555507 ...
Juilliard School
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Until 1946, the Juilliard School of Music was composed of two divisions, the Juilliard Graduate School (JGS) and the Institute of Musical Art (IMA), which served as the undergraduate division. The IMA was founded in 1905 by Frank Damrosch and James Loeb; in 1926 it affiliated with the JGS, established in 1924 by the Juilliard Musical Foundation. The two schools maintained separate identities until their full merger in 1946. From the description of Scholarship...
Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931
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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...
College Entrance Examination Board
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Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-
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Emilio de Gogorza
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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 ...
Chanler, William Astor, 1867-1934
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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 ...
Howells, William Dean, II
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E. F. (Ernst Friedrich) Richter.
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Damrosch, Frank
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German-American conductor and teacher. From the description of Typewritten document signed, dated : [New York], 22 March 1913, 1913 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565329 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : New York, 22 January and 7 December 1906, to [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1906 Jan. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565325 Esther Ostroff, an American pianist, studied with Isidore Philipp. From the guide to the...
Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949
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Professor at the University of Chicago, later President of Yale University. From the description of James Rowland Angell letters, 1880-1945. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418550 Born May 8, 1869, Burlington, Vermont; psychologist, educator; B.A., University of Michigan, 1890, M.A. 1891; M.A., Harvard, 1892; taught at the University of Chicago and was acting president, 1918-1919; president of the Carnegie Corporation, 1920-1921; president of Yale University,...
Hadow, W. H. (William Henry), 1859-1937
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W.H. Hadow was an English composer, educator, and writer. Educated at Oxford, he received music training in Germany before accepting a teaching post at Oxford. Although he composed numerous pieces, he made his mark as a lecturer and author on music, culminating in his appointment as general editor of the Oxford History of Music. He later held numerous educational positions, helping to add legitimacy to the study of music in England. He chaired a group for the Board of Education that produced The...
Julius Schuberth.
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Gladding, William B.
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Cadwalader, John
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Wilma Norman-Neruda.
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Eugène Ysaÿe.
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Huneker, James, 1857-1921
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Born in Philadelphia, Huneker studied piano in Philadelphia and Paris. After moving to New York in 1886, he continued to study piano, became a member of the piano faculty of the National Conservatory of Music, and had a successful career as an arts critic and essayist. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1919. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 80129954 American author and critic. From the description of Heroes and heroines o...
Mabel Dolmetsch.
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Richard Le Gallienne
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Beach, H.H.A. Mrs
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Dedicated to Madame Teresa Carreño. First performance Music Hall, Boston, 6 April 1900, Boston Symphony, William Gericke conductor, the composer as soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto : for pianoforte and orchestra, op. 45 / by Mrs. H.H.A. Beach. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43256910 American composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., London?, n.d.], to Stanley K. Faye at t...
Chicago Musical College.
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Belasco, David, 1853-1931
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American theatrical producer and playwright. From the description of Letter : to Luther Price, 1906 Apr. 2. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122494221 American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright. From the description of David Belasco letter, 1905 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 709924141 From the description of David Belasco letter, 1929 Oct. 30. (Unknown). W...
Láng, Paul Henry, 1901-1991
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Musicologist, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Columbia University, 1933-1970. From the description of Paul Henry Lang papers, 1947-1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 626908658 Musicologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Henry Lang : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736579 American musicologist of Hungarian birth. From the description...
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937
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American author and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) and typewritten letter signed : Redding, Conn., to F.A. Duneka, 1908 Jul. 9-1911 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611536 Author & editor. From the description of Letters of Albert Bigelow Paine [manuscript] 1910, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934359 Albert Bigelow Paine was born in New Bedford, Mass., but grew up in the Midwest. For ten y...
Edvard Grieg.
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Frederick Niecks.
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Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
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Note at end says "Original mss. in Weimar--date 1851. First published by Meyer in 1854--later by Litolff. Never been orchestrated--either by Liszt or anyone else."--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Scherzo and March / Franz Liszt ; orchestrated by Arthur Hartmann. [c1934]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 69683005 Composed originally for solo piano, 1849, on the deaths of Prince Felix Lichnowsky, Count Ladislaus Teleky and Count Lajos Ba...
F. T. (Franck Thomas) Arnold
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A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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Stock, Frederick
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Eugen d'Albert
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Epithet: German composer and pianist, d 1932 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0000ae ...
Theodore Eisfeld.
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Coates, Alfred
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Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953
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Biographical Note 1864, Oct. 30 Born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, Chicago, Illinois, to Albert Arnold and Nancy Ann Atwood Sprague circa 1872 Began piano lessons with Regina Cohn Watson 1891 Married Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge (died 1915) ...
Stoeckel, Carl
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Harry Plunket Greene
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Franz, Robert, 1815-1892
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Louisa Loring Dresel (1864-1958) was the daughter of the composer Otto Dresel. From the description of Letters to Louisa Dresel, 1890-1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84446689 From the description of Letters to Otto Dresel, 1845-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354156 Robert Franz was a German song composer. He studied music at Dessau from 1835 to 1837 under Schneider. After a period of great personal deprivation he won the attention of the masters Mendels...
Lady Winefride Feilding Elwes
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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...
St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.)
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Sanford, Edward Terry, 1865-1930
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Felix Orman.
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Pierne, Gabriel
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Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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Epithet: American music critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x0002f1 ...
Bernhard Stavenhagen.
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Rand, Margaret Astor Chanler Aldrich.
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André Messager.
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Joseph, Joachim
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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...
Charles Van den Borren
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Athenæum Club (London, England)
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Edward Prime-Stevenson
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Bliss, Mildred
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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 ...
Brockway, Howard
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Heyn, Edward T.
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Mandyczewski, Eusebius
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New York Times Company.
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The National Desk, also referred to as the National News Desk or the Telegraph Desk, is the department responsible for the development and presentation of The New York Times' reporting on the United States. At the time of these records' creation, it was one of three main news desks at The Times, along with the Metropolitan Desk and the Foreign Desk. Staff members include the national-news editor who headed the department, news editors in New York City, and editors and correspondents in the vario...
Chicago Opera Association
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Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948
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American art critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [New York], 10 Apirl 1940 and 22 March 1942, to Harry [Harkness Flagler], 1940 Apr. 10 and 22 March 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564650 Royal Cortissoz (1869-1968), respected American art critic, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He trained as an architect, spending six years working at the firm of McKim, Mead, and White before embarking on his journalism career. Cortissoz served as the art...
Carl Reinecke.
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Vassar College.
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Walter Damrosch.
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Spalding, Walter R.
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Spalding graduated from Harvard in 1887 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Walter R. Spalding, ca. 1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973189 ...
British Museum.
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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...
Trefftz, Emil.
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Kramer, A. Walter (Arthur Walter), 1890-1969
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Composed 1912. First performance Lewisohn Stadium, New York, 7 August 1919, Lewisohn Stadium Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Volpe conductor, Elya Schkolnik soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphonic rhapsody in F minor : for violin and orchestra, op. 35 / A. Walter Kramer ; edition with piano acc. [1912] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52596100 Epithet: Editor of `Musical America', composer British Library Archives and...
New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans
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Van Wyck Brooks served as an Elector for the Hall of Fame from 1950 onwards. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1949-1960. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 182622044 ...
Harvard University. Department of Music (1855-)
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A professorship in music was first proposed in 1832, but it wasn't until 1855 that Harvard's catalogue listed its first music course. The music program was developed further in the 1870s by John Knowles Paine. From the description of General information by and about the Department of Music. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236231892 ...
Barrère, Georges
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In 1916, the Barrère Ensemble premiered Griffes' woodwind-harp arrangements of The lake at evening and The vale of death, both compositions written for the French-born flutist Georges Barrère. 1919 was the year Griffes wrote his Poem for flute and orchestra, which was premiered at New York's Aeolian Hall by the New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Walter Damrosch, with Barrère as the flute soloist. From the description of [Letter to Charles T. Griffes]. 1919. (New York Public Libra...
Enesco, Georges
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Albert Wolff.
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Sir Arthur Sullivan.
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Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939
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Charles M. Schwab was born on April 18, 1862, in Williamsburg, Pa., and grew up in Loretto, Pa. In 1879, he began working for the Carnegie Co. as a stake-driver in engineering corps of Edgar Thompson Steel Works and Furnaces in Braddock, Pa. This plant formed part of Carnegie Brothers & Co., Limited. Schwab was frequently promoted while working at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, and in 1886, Carnegie appointed him to the position of general superindentent at the Homestead works. In 1889 Schw...
Tovey, Donald Francis, 1875-1940
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Epithet: musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x000035 ...
Colles, H.C. (Henry Cope), 1879-1943
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Epithet: music historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x000270 ...
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 ...
Ferdinand Hiller
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Bliss, Robert Woods
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James, Henry
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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00012f Epithet: Baron James of Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000331 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000361 Epithet: Capta...
Carl Goldmark.
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Vallas, Léon
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New York Public Library
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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...
Johannes, Brahms
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Felix Weingartner.
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Cornell university. Libraries
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Spoof "Stack Directory" was posted at all public access points in Olin Library on April Fool's Day, 1980. From the description of Stack directory (parody), 1980. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073462 ...
Finck, Henry Theophilus
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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x000312 ...
Stephen Heller.
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Stransky, Josef
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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...
Carnegie corporation of New York
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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...
Adolf Busch.
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Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968
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Elwes, Gervase
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Epithet: of Egerton MS 3518 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x000341 ...
Friedlaender, Max, 1852-1934
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University of California (1868-1952)
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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...
Hirsch, Paul
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Born 1868, died 1940. Politician, Prussian Minister President, prominent member of the left-radical Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands), and mayor of Dortmund from 1925-1932. From the guide to the Paul Hirsch Collection., circa 1903-2000, bulk 1903-1932, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) Paul Hirsch (1881-1951) was born in Frankfurt on 24 February 1881. He began to collect music in 1897, initially focusing on Moza...
Clarke, Rebecca, 1886-1979
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Alfred Einstein, 1880-1952
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
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American author and educator. From the description of Papers of Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, 1887-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083790 Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Robert N. Smith and Helen E. Dyer. Her father died when she was three. She and her mother then moved to Maine, the setting of most of her future books. Three years later, her mother married Albion Bradbury. At 17, she moved with her family to Santa Barbara (Calif.). There ...
Fairchild, Blair
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Lamond, Frederic
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Epithet: pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001191.0x000378 ...
Charles Gounod.
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Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles
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Malipiero, Francesco
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Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930
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George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War, he entered his father's publishing house, G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright Leag...
Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...
Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler
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Siloti, Alexander, 1863-1945
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Sir Frederic H. (Frederic Hymen) Cowan.
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St. Botolph Club
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Neitzel, Otto, 1852-1920
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German composer and writer on music. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Cologne?], 27 July 1909, to [Ferruccio] Busoni, 1909 July 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582857 Epithet: Dr. writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x000161 ...
Legge, Robin H. (Robin Humphrey), 1862-1933
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Josef Hofmann.
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Colonne, Edouard, 1838-1910.
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French violinist and conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed and letter signed, dated : Paris, 25? December 1874 and 21 January 1875, to [Vincent] d'Indy, 1874 Dec. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564572 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Villerville (Calvados), 1 September [1904], to an unidentified friend, 1904 Sept. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564577 From the description of Autograph note signed on his visit...
Plimpton Press
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Plimpton Press originally established in Boston, Mass., in 1882 by Herbert M. Plimpton, but moved to Norwood, Mass., in 1897. By 1920 the bindery part of the plant was capable of producing 50,000 volumes daily and by 1936 the press employed over 600; produced textbooks but expanded into religious books, fiction, and deluxe editions. In its heyday in the late 1950s, its work force surpassed 1200 employees. In 1924 the company opened a subsidiary plant in LaPorte, Ind., and this plant was greatly ...
W. Heffer & Sons
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Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Charles Scribner, 1821-1871, was a partner in the publishing firm of Baker & Scribner, 1846-1871, and carried on alone after Baker's death in 1850. He formed Scribner & Welford in 1857. Charles Scribner's Sons was established in 1870, the same year SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY began. His son Charles, 1854-1930, became president in 1875. He began SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE in 1887. It ceased publication in 1930. His son Charles, 1890-1952, became president in 1932. From the description of Char...
Pittsburgh Orchestra
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The Pittsburgh Orchestra, not to be confused with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, was founded in 1896 by Charles W. Scovel, Director of the Art Society of Pittsburgh. The Orchestra was in existence for fifteen years until it was forced to disband in 1910 due to financial difficulties. From the description of Programs [manuscript 1898-1909. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 37703950 ...
Wolf, Johannes
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Benjamin Grosbayne.
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Wells, Thomas B. (Thomas Bucklin), 1875-1944
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Epithet: Rector of Portlemouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001e2 ...
Jacques Urlus.
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Adler, Guido, 1855-1941
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Guido Adler (1855-1941), Viennese musicologist, educator, and author. From the description of Guido Adler clippings, [ca. 1863-1933]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476204 From the description of Guido Adler correspondence, [ca. 1880-1938]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476203 From the description of Guido Adler manuscripts, 1869-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476202 From the description of Guido Adler academic files, 1880-1927. (Unknown). Worl...
City Club of New York
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Albert S. Bard (1866-1963) was an attorney and civic activist in New York City. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Bard came to New York City in 1893, where he engaged in the practice of corporation and general law until a few years before his death. From 1901-1935 (or 1938) he practiced with his partner, Leighton Calkins (1868-1955), under the firm name of Bard & Calkins at 25 Broad Street. Bard continued to practice law until 1960. Bard was an energetic participant in ci...
Wittgenstein, Paul, 1887-1961
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Paget, Muriel, 1876-1938
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Lady Muriel Paget (ne Finch-Hatton) (1876-1938) organised many philanthropic activities in Russia and Eastern Europe from the First World War until her death From the guide to the Lady Muriel Paget papers, 1872-1981, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...
Winter, William
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Epithet: Admiral British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x0001e9 From the guide to the William Winter Papers, 1958, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...
Schindler, Kurt
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Kurt Schindler, a composer, conductor, and folksong musicologist, was born in Berlin in 1882 and died in New York City in 1935. He founded the organization which became the Schola Cantorum of New York. From the description of Papers, 1882-1946. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122580695 American composer and conductor of German birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [New York], to Mr. and Mrs. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, [n.d., ...
Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939
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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Author, editor, translator, literary agent in Paris. Columbia University B.A. 1899, M.A. 1900. From the guide to the William Aspenwall Bradley Papers, 1900-1966., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Author, editor, translator, literary agent in Paris. Columbia University B.A. 1899, M.A. 1900. From the description of William Aspenwall Bradley papers, 1900-1966. (Columbia University In the City of New...
Kohlsaat, Herman Henry, 1853-1924
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Goldmark, Rubin, 1872-1936
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Giulio Gatti-Casazza
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Gow, George Coleman, 1860-1938
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Orchestra Hall (Chicago, Ill.)
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Brevard College
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Aldrich, Margaret Livingston Chanler.
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Aldrich, Anna E. Gladding.
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Librairie Fischbacher.
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Association française d'expansion et d'échanges artistiques.
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Homer, Sidney
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Harrison, Beatrice
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Ignace Jan Paderewski.
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Pochon, Alfred, 1878-1959
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Swiss violinist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., New York?], 14 February 1925, to Mr. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1925 Feb. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270675064 ...
Manuel de Falla
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Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937
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John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) was born in Richford, New York to William Avery Rockefeller and Eliza Davison. In 1853, he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio where he studied bookkeeping. With partner Maurice B. Clark, Rockefeller built an oil refinery in 1863 and bought out his partner two years later. In 1864, he married Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman, with whom he had four children. Two years later, Rockefeller joined his brother William to establish Rockefeller, Andrews, & Flagler, wh...
Alfred Hertz.
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Giuseppe De Luca
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Adolfo Betti.
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Farnam, Lynnwood, 1885-1930
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Hofmann, Marie Clarisse Eustis, 1866-1956
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Philharmonic Society of New York.
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The Philharmonic Society of New York was founded in 1842. It merged in 1928 with the Symphony Society of New York to form the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York. From the description of Miscellaneous records, [ca. 1842-1928] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513248 ...
Brewer, A. Herbert (Alfred Herbert), 1865-1928
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English organist, conductor and composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Gloucester, 19 October 1897 and 6 November 1899, to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett 1897 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270673286 Epithet: composer and organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000147 English organist, conductor, and composer. From the description of Aut...
G. W. (George Whitefield) Chadwick
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Joseffy, Rafael
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Hungarian pianist Rafael Joseffy was born in Hunfal on July 3, 1852 and died in New York on June 25, 1915. His youth was spent in Miskolcz, where he began to study the piano at the age of eight. After further studies in Budapest he entered the Leipzig Conservatory (1866), where he was taught chiefly by E.F. Wenzel, though he also had a few lessons from Moscheles. From 1868 to 1870 he studied with Tausig in Berlin, and he spent the summers of 1870 and 1871 in Weimar taking lessons from Liszt. He ...
Josef Rheinberger.
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Walker, Ernest
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Epithet: of Balliol College Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x00018e Epithet: composer and writer on music British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00009c ...
Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924
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Epithet: folk music collector British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001a9 English musician and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dragonfield, Uxbridge, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1914 Oct. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662515 English folk music collector and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Dragonfield, Uxbridge, ...
Hofmann, Josef
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Paget, Richard
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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...
