Collection of research materials, correspondence, and papers, 1948-1982.

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Collection of research materials, correspondence, and papers, 1948-1982.

Collection consists of manuscript and typed research notes, musical sketches and manuscripts, published scores, books, pamphlets, periodical issues and offprints (with and without annotations), typed drafts of articles, and photocopies of articles, scores, and miscellaneous printed music pages related to the career of Sol Babitz. Includes correspondence primarily related to baroque performance practice research done through the Early Music Laboratory (EML). Also includes a set of EML Bulletins, other EML publications, and disc recordings of EML sponsored performances.

71 boxes (35.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7415533

University of California, Los Angeles

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Early Music Laboratory

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Babitz, Sol

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Babitz was born on Oct. 11, 1911, in Brooklyn, NY; he was largely a self-taught violinist since leaving high school; his violin teachers included Carl Flesch in Berlin and Marcel Chailley in Paris; his interest in performance practice was aroused by the writing of Arnold Dolmetsch and encouraged by Igor Stravinsky, whose string parts Babitz edited for many years; he was a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1933-37, and then played with Hollywood studio orchestras until 1952; editor...