Interview conducted by Ellis Kohs, Jan. 20, 1977 [sound recording].

Steuermann, Clara

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Epithet: wife of E Steuermann British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0001fb Clara Steuermann was an American music librarian, archivist, and pianist. She was born Clara Silvers in 1922. She was the wife of pianist Eduard Steuermann; they married in 1949. She died in 1982....

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old; composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal compositions, and in his Opus 25 Piano S...

Steuermann, Edward

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Composed 1964. First performance New York, 11 November 1965, members of The Orchestra of America, Abraham Kaplan conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite for chamber orchestra / Edward Steuermann. c1964. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 55088548 Composed 1959-1961.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Music for instruments : (1959-1960) / Edward Steuermann. [1961]. (Franklin & Marshall College). Wor...

Kohs, Ellis

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Ellis B. Kohs, composer and teacher, born May 12, 1916, in Chicago. Kohs received his early musical training at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied with Olga Samarof Stokowski at the Juilliard School in New York City. He earned an M.A. degree at the University of Chicago (1938) and then attended Harvard University. During World War II, Kohs served in the U.S. Army as director of the all-African American 334th Army Forces Services Band, at Fort Benning (Georgia). After the war he ...

Arnold Schoenberg Institute

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Stein, Leonard

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American musicologist born in 1916, Stein was pianist and conductor who performed widely in Los Angeles during the 1960's. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California and a former head of the Schoenberg Institute. From the description of Leonard Stein collection of musical scores, 1954-1969. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80271526 Leonard Stein was born in 1916. He was a teaching and personal assistant to Arnold Schoenberg from 1939 ...

Mahler, Alma

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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...

Kaper, Bronislaw, 1902-1983.

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Kaper (1902-1983) was born in Poland and worked as a composer in Germany and France before immigrating to the U.S. around 1945. He worked as a composer for the motion picture industry until the 1960s, mostly for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From the description of Papers, 1923-1965. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 31522131 ...