Frederick Caldecott Slee Collection of Manuscript Scores, 1890-1954.

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Frederick Caldecott Slee Collection of Manuscript Scores, 1890-1954.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256949578

The Frederick Caldecott Slee Collection of Manuscript Scores contains 77 folders of bound and unbound paper manuscript scores and parts, with many including photostatic reproductions. It also contains transcriptions of works by Alexander von Fielitz, J.S. Bach, Mozart, and Haydn; and a lesson for recorder. There are 41 original works and arrangements, 5 transcriptions and 1 recorder lesson represented in the collection.

3 boxes (77 scores)

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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SNAC Resource ID: 7148570

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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Slee, Frederick Caldecott, 1870-1954

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Frederick Caldecott Slee was a successful corporate lawyer in Buffalo, N.Y. While at Harvard pursuing his law degree, he also studied music theory, composition, and performance. He later furthered his music education by studying under Ernest Schelling and Walter Damrosch in New York City and Nadia Boulanger at the Sorbonne in Paris. An accomplished musician who played viola, violin, piano and cello, Slee formed a string quartet that performed locally in Buffalo. He composed more than three dozen...