Sylvia Marlow Collection.

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Sylvia Marlow Collection.

Music manuscripts collected by Sylvia Marlowe, including various composers' donations, music written for, commissioned, or arranged by Sylvia Marlowe, as well as correspondence, negatives, and other miscellanea.

3 archival boxes ; 30x50x13 cm.

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Marlowe, Sylvia

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American harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, was born Sapira Marlowe, on September 26, 1908, in New York. She later died in New York on December 10, 1981. After learning the piano and organ at school and university, Marlowe continued her musical education at the Ecole Normale in Paris, studying the piano and organ, and composition with Nadia Boulanger. It was there that she first heard Landowska, whose harpsichord playing impressed her deeply, although she did not study with her until years later. On...