Papers of Maurice Abravanel relating to Kurt Weill in the collections of the University of Utah, 1926-1983.

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Papers of Maurice Abravanel relating to Kurt Weill in the collections of the University of Utah, 1926-1983.

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Biographical material, contracts, correspondence, programs, clippings, music. The most significant items are 20 letters and postcards from Weill to Abravanel from 1926-1944. Also included are contracts, programs, and clippings from original productions of several of Weill's Broadway shows, and a copy of the title page of Knickerbocker holiday sheet music inscribed to Abravanel. Another significant item is Abravanel's notes on a performance of the Mahagonny Songspiel in Paris in 1932.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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SNAC Resource ID: 6732118

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993.

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Weill, Kurt

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Abravanel, Maurice, 1903-1993.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gm887v (person)

Conductor of the Utah Symphony. From the description of Interviews, 1981. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122415000 Conductor. Abravanel (1903-1993) was born in Greece and grew up in Switzerland. He became a music theory student of Kurt Weill in 1922 in Berlin, and studied with him for a year. He and Weill remained good friends. When Abravanel became a conductor, Weill preferred him as a conductor of his own works; Abravanel conducted the premiere of Die siebe...