Danz Family Collection 1873-1958

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Danz Family Collection 1873-1958

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The collection contains programs, photographs, scrapbook materials, publications, clippings, and correspondence about Frank Danz, Jr., first concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and director of the Danz Band and Danz Orchestra. There is a small amount of material about Frank J. Danz (his son), from whom the collection was received.

2 boxes; (7 linear inches)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Performing Arts Archives, Manuscripts Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6618256

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Danz, Frank

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Danz, Frank J.

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Danz Family

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Frank Danz, Jr. was the first concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and director of the Danz Band and the Danz Orchestra upon the retirement of his father, Frank Danz, Sr., in 1884. Frank, Jr. had been a noted violinist with the Theodore Thomas Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic before his return to the Twin Cities. His father had longed wished that Frank, Jr. would return home and finally accomplished his goal by “bribing” him with the gift of a rare Stradivarius...

Danz Orchestra

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Danz Band

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Danz, Frank, Jr.

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Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1945, 1950

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