Papers of Alfred J. Swan, 1909-1970.

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Papers of Alfred J. Swan, 1909-1970.

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The collection contains the correspondence, 1920-1970, ot Swan with composer and pianist Nicholas Medtner, and other prominent musicians, particularly Sergei Wassilievitch Rachmaninoff, Alexander Tcherepnin, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Jean-Jules Aimable Roger Ducasse, John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Freda Swain. Correspondence of Medtner with his wife Anna Medtner is included as are diaries of Swan about the Medtners, 1924-1937, notes and typescripts for Swan's Life of Nicholas Medtner, an opus number listing of Medtner's music, A traveler's diary of English composers today, and other musical essays by Swan, L. Sabaneyev, I.A. Ilyin, Johan von Gardner, and Mikhail Osorgin. The correspondence, over half of which is in Russian, German, and French, discusses the lives and works of many modern composers including Medtner, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovitch, Scriabin, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Debussy, Satie, Mussorgsky, and Stravinsky, and other musical topics particularly the Russian Orthodox chant, and the lives of Russian scholars and musicians in the 1930s and 1950s. Of interest are a discussion by Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin of Shostakovitch's 4th symphony, and activities of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Sir Cedric H. Glover's comments on British intellectuals and musicians, comments by Julien Green on composers, Igymen Konstantin's views on Boris Pasternak, and a letter by Sophie Satin about Rachmaninoff's life and death. The collection also contains the diaries, 1909-1934, of Catherine Prosvaya Swan, miscellaneous sheet music, programs, clippings, and photographs. Other correspondents include Gerald Abraham, Modest Altschuler, Elmar Arro, Albert Benois, Adrian Boult, Maksim V. Brazhnikov, Martin Cooper, Olin Downes, and Gerald Joy Finzi. Others include Emil Gilels, Nina Grieg, Yuri Keldysh, Otto Kinkeldey, Ivan Lapshin, Rene Leroy, Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Rollo Myers, Ernest Newman, Eugene Ormandy, Aleksei Mikhailovich Remizov, Harold C. Schonberg, William Warren Scranton, Boris Spengler, Alexandra Tolstoy, Hilos M. Velimirovic, Eugene Vetchorin, Ernest Walker, and A. Ziloti.

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