Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1962.

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Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1962.

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1 item is a condolence letter to Alma Mahler upon the death of Werfel in which Stiedry recounts the course of his acquaintance with Werfel. 1 item includes as enclosures several handwritten pages of text (partially photocopies) to Stiedry's opera Der gerettete Alkibiades. See also oversized container for an autograph music manuscript (apparently an excerpt from the opera), dedicated to Alma, in 1955.

20 items (28 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Stiedry, Fritz

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A native of Vienna, Fritz Stiedry (1883-1968) had apparently been briefly acquainted with Werfel in Leipzig, around 1912; and then knew Werfel and Alma Mahler in Vienna around 1924, at which time Alma (as Stiedry recalls in a letter) was influential in his becoming director of the Volksoper. In her memoir Mein Leben, Alma mentions Stiedry among encounters in 1933. Erika Stiedry-Wagner was a singer and Fritz's wife; they were married in 1924. Fritz and Erika emigrated to the U.S. in 1938; they mo...

Stiedry-Wagner, Erika

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