Papers, 1925-1956.

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Papers, 1925-1956.

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Collection consists of manuscripts and page proofs with holographic corrections of Leyda's work relating to Herman Melville and Leyda's study The Melville log, Sergei Eisenstein, Modest Mussorgsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Also includes correspondence and ephemera regarding research for these books.

24 boxes (12 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7399218

University of California, Los Angeles

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Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881

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Russian composer. From the description of "[Khovanshchina / narodnaya muzïkalnaya drama. / M. Musorgski / 6ya Kartina / Sosnovïy bor' Skit'. Lunnaya noch.']." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270919862 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : near the Dnieper Estuary (Bug-Ingul), Nikolayev, and Kherson, 3-15 August 1879, to Maria Fyodorova and to Pavel and Sergei Naumov, 1879 Aug. 3-15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270902292 Text in Russian by Coun...

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

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The Five etudes-tableaux orchestrated by Respighi are originally from Rachmaninoff's op. 33 and 39 for piano solo. From the description of 5 etudes tableaux / S. Rachmaninoff ; orchestration de Ottorino Respighi. 1930. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 62092347 Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer and pianist. From the description of Sergei Rachmaninoff letter, New York, to Princess Maria Dimitriv Gagarin, 1942 May 4. (Pennsylvania State University Lib...

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Russian filmmaker and film theorist, 1898-1948. From the description of The principles of film form : typescript (carbon copy), Zürich, 1929 Nov. 2; translation: Beverly Hills, Calif., 1930 Nov. 2 / by Sergei Michaelovich Eisenstein ; authorized translation by Ivor Montagu. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594167 From the description of Scrapbook of photographs and manuscripts, [ca. 1900]-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86133868 ...

Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein created his first film, "Strike" in 1924. "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) brought him to the attention of critics in the United States and England. "October of Ten Days that Shook the World" followed in 1928 and, the next year, "The General Line." Eisenstein came to America in 1930 to work for Paramount. He was assigned to direct "Sutter's Gold" and a film adaption of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy"; neither project was completed. In 1932, in collab...

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...