Collection, 1951-1963.

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Collection, 1951-1963.

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Comprises correspondence, works, and printed materials pertaining to the translation of the Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, English version of which was published in 1961. The correspondence dates from 1951-1963 and includes letters from Mark Bonham Carter, Erich Heller, Willi Schuh, Franz Strauss, Michael Tippett, William Mann, Poyser Trevor, and Gerty Hofmannsthal concerning the publication of the translation. There is also a letter from W. H. Auden,along with a copy of the review he wrote about the book in 1963. The letters from Gerty Hofmannsthal, Willi Schuh, and Franz Strauss are in German. Works include an incomplete typescript with annotations, and an incomplete gally proof of the Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and notes and documents pertaining to this book, as well as to Birth of an Opera (ca. 1955), and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1957). The printed materials range in date from 1957 to 1961 and are clippings of reviews of the books.

1 box (.5 linear ft.).

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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 / Here superseded / Michael Tippett / 1987 [manuscript]. (...

Hammellmann, Hanns A.

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Translator and author. From the description of Collection, 1951-1963. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122365915 ...

Hofmannsthal, Gerty.

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Carter, Mark Bonham

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Hofmannsthal, Hugo ˜vonœ 1874-1929

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a German author, known as perhaps the most important Austrian writer of his era. Born in Vienna to prosperous Jewish parents, he was educated by private tutors and studied law and philology at the University of Vienna. He showed a precocious gift for poetry, and became equally prolific writing drama, fiction, and essays. He was influenced by the Symbolist tradition, and his work was self-consciously aesthetic, but his writing was always infused with his concern for harm...

Schuh, Willi, 1900-1986

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Strauss, Franz, 1897-1980

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Franz Strauss was the son of Richard Strauss. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1950. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864559 ...

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949

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Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a German composer. From the description of Richard Strauss audiocassette, undated [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122391808 This work was premiered in Munich on November 28, 1883, Hermann Levi conducting. Lahee's Annals of Music in America and Mueller's compendium of the repertoire of 27 major U.S. orchestras make no mention of a U.S. performance. Theodore Thomas conducted the world premiere of Richard Strauss's second sympho...

Mann, William R.

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Poyser, Trevor.

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Heller, Erich, 1911-1990

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Erich Heller was born in Komotau, Bohemia, Austro-Hungary (currently, Chomutov, in the Czech Republic), on March 27, 1911. Heller was a scholar of German philosophy and literature, teaching at such universities as Cambridge, the London School of Economics and University College of Swansea. He joined Northwestern University's faculty in 1960, where he remained until his retirement in 1979. He died in 1990. Heller's father was a doctor. A citizen of Austro-Hungary by birth...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...