Sol Babitz Collection of Research Materials, Correspondence, and Papers, 1948-1982, 1948-1982.

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Sol Babitz Collection of Research Materials, Correspondence, and Papers, 1948-1982, 1948-1982.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf938nb646

This collection consists of research notes, musical sketches, manuscripts, published scores, books, pamphlets, periodical issues, offprints, typed drafts of articles, photocopies of articles, scores, miscellaneous printed music pages, and correspondence.

71 boxes; (35.5 linear ft.)

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6666647

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Early Music Laboratory

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Babitz, Sol

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Babitz was born on Oct. 11, 1911, in Brooklyn, NY; he was largely a self-taught violinist since leaving high school; his violin teachers included Carl Flesch in Berlin and Marcel Chailley in Paris; his interest in performance practice was aroused by the writing of Arnold Dolmetsch and encouraged by Igor Stravinsky, whose string parts Babitz edited for many years; he was a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1933-37, and then played with Hollywood studio orchestras until 1952; editor...