Correspondence, 1920-1950.

ArchivalResource

Correspondence, 1920-1950.

Correspondence. Though limited in extent (at least in its representation in this collection), Weill's correspondence with the following people also contains important documentation: Maurice Abravanel, Theodor W. Adorno, Engelbert Humperdinck, Boris Kochno, Gertrude Lawrence, Darius Milhaud, and Max Reinhardt. For Weill's correspondence with his family, cf. Ser.30, Box 9, folders 1-11, Ser.30 and Box 7, folders 1-20, for his correspondence with Albert and Peter Bing, cf. Ser.30, Box 8, folders 1-16; cf. other small collections in Ser.30 for less extensive collections of correspondence to others; for his correspondence with Universal Edition, cf. Ser.41.

<ca. 314> items.

Related Entities

There are 26 Entities related to this resource.

Cocteau, Jean

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg4k5g (person)

French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w94tm (person)

Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. Born in Brooklyn, the oldest of four children. It was not until 1924 that Ira and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Some of their more famous works include "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That A...

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Weill-Lenya Research Center.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk8867 (corporateBody)

Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6621qr9 (person)

Italian pianist and composer. From the description of Letters 1901-1920. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 703895285 German-Italian composer and pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Berlin?], 22 June 1923, to Herr Dünnebeil [at Breitkopf &amp; Härtel] 1923 June 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674030 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Berlin, 8 March 1924, to a Herr Präsident, 1924...

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pd3sd6 (person)

Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 4, 1892. As a child he improvised melodies at the piano and soon took up the violin. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1909, studying the violin with Berthelier, ensemble with Lefèvre, harmony with Leroux, counterpoint with André Gédalge, composition and fugue with Charles-Marie Widor, and conducting with Vincent d'Indy. He received first "accessit" in violin and counterpoint, and second in fugue, winning the Prix Lepaulle for composition. Mil...

Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zh7gbm (person)

American poet. From the description of The Voluble Wheel Chair (for Eugène--March 31,1952) : Baltimore : autograph poem signed, written for Eugène Reynal, 1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612668 American writer. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 16 March 1962, to Mr. Miller, 1962 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874504 American poet Ogden Nash was born in New York and raised along the east coast. Afte...

Heinsheimer, Hans W., 1900-1993

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh3wj1 (person)

Author and music publishing executive Hans Heinsheimer was active with many of the leading European and American 20th-century composers. From the description of Hans Heinsheimer collection 1915-ca 1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71128299 German-born American publishing executive and writer on music. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 25 November 1964, to James J. Fuld, 1964 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873424 ...

Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k07fx7 (person)

Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer. From the description of Postcard, 1920 Sept. 18, Berlin, to Mary Wurm, Dresden. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517477 From the guide to the Postcard, Berlin, to Mary Wurm, Dresden, 1920 Sept. 18, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) German composer and teacher. From the description of Postcards signed (10, 9 with initials), dated : Paris June 1 1900, to the Fürstin Bibesco, 1900 J...

Neher, Erika

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t72vkd (person)

Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh2rcv (person)

Epithet: film actor and director, born Maximilian Goldmann British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x0003ac Austrian actor, manager, and director, Ernest Julian Reinhardt (1876-1954) was a creative innovator in scenery and staging. He produced plays and spectacles in Germany, Austria, England and the United States and founded the Salzburg Festival in 1920. From the guide to the Max Reinhardt collecti...

Curjel, Hans.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6708v5m (person)

American society of composers, authors and publishers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6797thd (corporateBody)

Taylor and Adams were each president of the ASCAP at the time of their writing; Nissim was in the Serious Music Department; Cunningham signed the television rights agreement on behalf of the ASCAP. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1944-1961. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862820 ...

Weill, Kurt

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr1x51 (person)

As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...

Marton, George, 1899-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x06rq0 (person)

Marton was a literary agent and film producer. He writes in 1942-1943 as the president of Playmarket, Inc., a literary agency based in Hollywood. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1942-1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863919 ...

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...

Marx, Julius, 1894-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n30r2r (person)

Heugel (Firm)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dr754n (corporateBody)

Speiser, Maurice J...

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kd2nwh (person)

Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf2wng (person)

American playwright. From the description of Maxwell Anderson papers, 1930-1948. WorldCat record id: 26661097 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 25 October 1937, to Peggy Wood, 1937 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873947 American playwright Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Penn., on 15 December 1888. He worked as a journalist early in his writing career and then turned largely to drama. He was the author of over 20 ...

Lawrence, Gertrude

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6377b39 (person)

Gertrude Lawrence, actress, was born Gertrud Alexandra Dagnar Lawrence Klasen in London, England on July 4, 1898. She was a musical star of stage and screen. She worked frequently with producer John Golden, and with actor and writer Noel Coward. Miss Lawrence's last stage appearance was with Yul Brynner in the musical, The King and I, in 1951. Gertrude Lawrence died on September 6, 1952. From the guide to the Gertrude Lawrence collection, 1910-1952, (The New York Public Library. Bill...

Lazar, Irving, 1907-1993

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g168d (person)

American talent agent. From the description of An oral history interview with Irving Paul ("Swifty") Lazar / conducted by David Farneth and Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1991 November 12 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison). WorldCat record id: 122364658 ...

Kochno, Boris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nz894x (person)

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67082kg (person)

Brecht was a German dramatist and poet. Karl Korsch was a Marxist theoretician. From the description of Correspondence with Karl Korsch, 1934-ca.1954. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122556373 From the guide to the Bertolt Brecht correspondence with Karl Korsch, ca. 1934-1954., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reyersbach was a pediatrician with special training in endocrinology and rheumatic diseases; she came to the U.S. in ...

Adorno, Theodor

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64m93hn (person)

Epithet: German philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000db Adorno was a German professor of philosophy at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, and associate director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt. From the description of Music in radio (memorandum), 1938, [microform]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309774179 From the de...

Neher, Caspar

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv253b (person)

Caspar Neher, who became one of the leading stage designers in Europe from the 1920's until his death in 1962 and was in his youth a schoolmate and friend of Bertolt Brecht, began his career by collaborating with the young author, and later collaborated repeatedly with Brecht and Weill--with both together and each separately. Among the stage designs for which he achieved renown are those for Die Dreigroschenoper, in which he worked together with both of them--and in whic...

Kaiser, Georg, 1878-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s18563 (person)

Kaiser was a German dramatist and author. From the description of Poems and plays, 1944-1957. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505756 From the guide to the Georg Kaiser poems and plays, 1944-1957., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...