The Bruno Walter papers, [ca. 1887-ca. 1966].

ArchivalResource

The Bruno Walter papers, [ca. 1887-ca. 1966].

The bulk of the collection dates from 1938-1962. It had been supplemented (through Lotte Walter Lindt's efforts) with reproductions of Walter's correspondence to various recipients. Most of Walter's pre-1938 correspondence was lost during wartime bombing (Lindt, Bruno Walter Briefe, p. 1). Correspondents with more than 10 items include Paul Badura-Skoda, Rudolf Bing, Karl Böhm, Adrian Boult, Van Cliburn, Kathleen Ferrier, Lotte Lehmann, Goddard Lieberson, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Thomas Mann, Daniel Gregory Mason, David Oppenheim, Hans Pfitzner, Wolfgang Streseman, Heinz Tietjen, Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Records, Decca Record Company, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and Wiener Philharmoniker.

ca. 12.65 cubic ft.

fre,

eng,

ger,

ita,

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6782445

New York Public Library System, NYPL

Related Entities

There are 28 Entities related to this resource.

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r5nvx (person)

Gustav Mahler was a Romantic composer. Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. For much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are generally designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. ...

Lieberson, Goddard, 1911-1977

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gc2wt7 (person)

. Goddard Lieberson (1911-1977) Lieberson was in 1945 Director of Masterworks Department at Columbia Recording Corporation and in 1954 Executive Vice-President of Columbia Records Inc. (both of those entities were subsidiaries of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.), then president of Columbia Records, and composer by training. In the 1940s, he introduced to the American public the long-playing records of classical repertoire and Bro...

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gv6ctc (corporateBody)

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as current general manager (2021). As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted the same year in...

Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 1886-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68q6qw5 (person)

Elisabeth Furtwängler was the wife of Wilhelm Furtwängler. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1922-1954. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863316 German conductor, composer, and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Baden-Baden, 9 May [1929], to [Hermann] Scherchen, 1929 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577583 Epithet: conductor and composer Briti...

Stresemann, Wolfgang

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g844v9 (person)

Wolfgang Stresemann (1904-1998) came to the U.S. from Germany in 1939. In 1949 (?) he became conductor of the orchestra in Toledo, Ohio. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1949, n. d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864568 ...

Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60h498t (person)

Conductor. From the description of Arturo Toscanini souvenir card, 1952 summer. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501180914 Italian conductor, considered one of the greatest of the early 20th century. Started his career in Italy and spent much of his later years in the United States. From the description of Autograph letter signed, from Toscanini to Mme Emmy Destinn, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872455 Italian conductor. From the descr...

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh8b04 (corporateBody)

Badura-Skoda, Paul

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xk900g (person)

Austrian pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna, to Herbert Cahoon at the Morgan Library, 1974 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270670863 ...

Lehmann, Lotte

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv4rh6 (person)

Lehmann was among the German-speaking émigrés with whom Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel had social contact in California. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1944. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863785 ...

Wiener Philharmoniker.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6711qmg (corporateBody)

Obermeyer writes on behalf of the management (Vorstand) of the orchestra. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1954. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864807 ...

Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65h7hvm (person)

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...

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kd1ww1 (person)

Born on January 10, 1910 in Lyon, the French conductor and composer, Jean Martinon entered the Lyon and Paris conservatoires to study the violin. At Lyon, his teacher was Maurice Foundray and at the Paris Conservatory, he studied violin technique with Jules Boucherit. While at the Paris conservatory, Martinon took composition with Albert Roussel and Vincent d’Indy. After completing the composition courses, he studied conducting with Charles Munch and Désormière. He graduated from ...

BBC symphony orchestra

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g784kw (corporateBody)

Ferrier, Kathleen, 1912-1953

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj6fps (person)

Columbia Records, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w41sqk (corporateBody)

Since the founding of the Columbia Graphophone Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the late 1880s, Columbia Records has pioneered major developments in all areas of the recording industry. Columbia Graphophone's most successful subsidiary, the Columbia Phonograph Company, distributed cylinder recordings and Edison phonographs in the Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., region. In 1902 Columbia began issuing recorded discs as well as cylinders, and in 1904 it introduced the double-sided d...

Gustav Fischer Verlag.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b627mq (corporateBody)

Tietjen, Heinz

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv3qbg (person)

Oppenheim, David, 1922-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pr8gdt (person)

Mason, Daniel Gregory

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xg9spx (person)

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 ...

New York philharmonic

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq9sxj (corporateBody)

The Philharmonic Society of New York is one of the predecessors of the New York Philharmonic. From the description of Scores, [ca. 1842-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513361 Orchestra based in New York, NY. From the description of Collection of broadcast concerts [sound recording], 1934-1955. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122687015 From the guide to the New York Philharmonic collection of broadcast concerts [sound recording], 1...

Cliburn, Van, 1934-2013

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf2tgd (person)

Concert pianist. From the description of Oral history conducted by Sharon Eisenhour, February 17, 1992. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155896057 ...

Streseman, Wolfgang.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf30fm (person)

Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wd41s8 (person)

General manager of the Metropolitan Opera. From the description of Rudolf Bing letter to Hubert Pryor, 1951 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 614998562 Bing was the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972. From the description of Correspondence from Alma Mahler, n. d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862944 Epithet: KBE, impresario British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Perso...

Decca record company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61p26br (corporateBody)

Mahler, Alma

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg737c (person)

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...

Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h1310c (person)

Elsa Walter (née Wirthschaft, previous married name Korneck) was an opera singer and Bruno's wife; they were married from around 1900 until Elsa's death, which was apparently in 1945. Delia Reinhardt, an opera singer whom Walter had mentored, was a close friend of Walter. McLane was a friend of Alma Mahler who communicated with Alma upon Walter's death; she lived in Calif. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, and Franz Werfel, 1911-1960. (Universit...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68p62c7 (person)

Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Pfitzner, Hans, 1869-1949

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69k4d1d (person)

Mimi Pfitzner (née Kwast) was the first wife of Hans; they married in 1899. Mali Pfitzner (née Stoll) was the 2nd wife of Hans; they married in 1939. Montenuovo was a high-ranking official at the Habsburg court in Vienna. Leer was a German attorney from Munich who defended Pfitzner in denazification proceedings following the end of World War II. Stromverlag, based in Hamburg, was the publisher of Pfitzner's memoir Eindrücke und Bilder meines Lebens (1948). Kössel was a friend of Pfitzner and...