Clara Rockmore papers

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Clara Rockmore papers

1898-1996 (majority 1930-1980)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/3289

Clara Rockmore (1911-1998) was trained as a violinist and later became a premiere thereminist. She was born Klara Reisenberg in Vilna, Lithuania. By the age of four, she had enrolled in the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study with Leopold Auer. Later, after immigrating to the U.S. in the mid-1920s she met Leon Theremin and became an expert on the Theremin. She married the producer Robert Rockmore in 1933. Her sister was the pianist Nadia Reisenberg and her nephew the broadcaster Robert Sherman. (The Nadia Reisenberg Papers are held in IPAM and the Robert Sherman Papers are held in SCPA.) Much of the Rockmore collection documents her career as a thereminist during the 1930s and 1940s, although there are also items from her early childhood and late adult years. It includes reviews, articles, correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, books, and scores.

8.25 linear feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Thérémin, Léon, 1896-1993

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Rockmore, Clara

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Clara Rockmore (1911-1998) was a Russian-born American thereminist. Originally trained as a violinist, Rockmore was forced to abandon the instrument after developing severe joint and muscular pain. During the mid-1920's, she immigrated to the United States and soonafter became a student and close friend of scientist and inventor Leon Thérémin. For nearly two decades, Rockmore played the theremin in a series of concert tours in New York and throughout the United States. She also performed frequ...

Reisenberg, Nadia

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Pianist, chamber musician and teacher. Ms. Reisenberg studied with Leonid Nikolayev, Alexander Lambert and Josef Hofmann. She concertized extensively and is known for her legendary performances of all twenty-seven Mozart concertos played in consecutive weekly broadcasts with Alfred Wallenstein and the WOR Mutual Radio Symphony Orchestra. She gave the New York premiere of the Rimsky-Korsakov piano concerto and the first performance of Vincent d'Indy's Symphony on a French...