Collection of manuscript music, papers, recordings and documents, 1920-1980.

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Collection of manuscript music, papers, recordings and documents, 1920-1980.

Collection consists of documents, clippings, correspondence and photographs relating to the career of Alfred Leonard, including 16 letters from Artur Schnabel to Leonard with related replies. Also includes music and other printed publications, manuscripts and copies of musical compositions by Joseph Leonard and others, reel-to-reel audiotapes, and phonograph discs.

29 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7332822

University of California, Los Angeles

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Schnabel, Artur

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Artur Schnabel was an Austrian pianist and teacher whose performances and recordings made him a legend in his own time and a model of scholarly musicianship to all later pianists. He lived in Berlin from 1900 and was a leading piano teacher at the State Academy of Music in Berlin from 1925 to 1933. Schnabel lived in the United States from 1939 until after World War II, when he returned to Switzerland. He specialized in the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert. As a ...

Leonard, Alfred.

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Leonard, Joseph J.

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Joseph Leonard died ca. 1795. From the description of Ledger, 1783-1794. (Chester County Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 19947295 Leonard was born in New York (Stae) on Feb. 9, 1822. At age 16, Leonard began work as a teacher, carpenter, and finally farmer. On April 13, 1848 he married Mary A. Gates (d. 1888). Together they had three children: Dr. Mary A. Murphy; Charles J; and Hattie C. Leonard moved to Bulrtington Township (Calhoun County) in 1856 to farm....