The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, and other material, 1873-2001.

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The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, and other material, 1873-2001.

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Manuscript and some printed materials of 20th-century composers of North and Latin America, including immigrant musicians. Includes: correspondence between Hans and Mary Moldenhauer and musicians; correspondence between musicians and others; photographs of musicians, musicians' families, friends and colleagues; manuscript and printed compositions (not manuscript music) relating to musicians (literary texts, librettos, rhythm schemes, course materials, documents, reprints, and others); biographical miscellany such as clippings, musical programs, ticket stubs, biographical sketches; and recorded audio materials including phonograph records, cassette tapes, and CDs. There are Christmas cards, drawings, and Adolph Weiss's extensive postcard collection and some of his materials concerning the playing of the game of Contract bridge. This collection includes materials especially from Paul Amadeus Pisk, Roman Ryterband, Nicholas Van Slyck, Aurelio de la Vega, and Adolph Weiss, but also includes a variety of others such as: Leonard Bernstein, Radie Britain, Gloria Coates, Aaron Copland, Irene Hanna, Ernest Krenek, Eugene Ormandy, Boaz Piller, George Rochberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, and many others.

59 boxes (cataloged) and 7 boxes (uncataloged) (40 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7796027

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Moldenhauer, Hans, 1906-1987

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Hans Moldenhauer was born in Mainz, Germany, on December 13, 1906 and died in November 1987 in Spokane, Washington. He completed five years of study of music under Hans Rosbaud at the Mainz Municipal College of Music. In 1918 he immigrated to the United States, where he settled in Spokane, Washington. After serving in the United States Army he returned to Spokane and was Whitworth College’s first student under the G. I. Bill and earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 194...

Ryterband, Roman, 1914-1979

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Roman Ryterband (1914-1979) was born in Lódz, Poland to a Jewish family of musicians and lawyers. Having a great love for music at an early age but pressured by his feather to earn a law degree, Ryterband rebelled and pursued his dream of a career in music with encouragement from composer Alexander Glazounov. He received his education at the State Academy in Lódz and the University of Warsaw. In the years leading up to World War II, Ryterband traveled around Europe, gaining fluency in six langua...

Vega, Aurelio de la, 1925-2022

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Aurelio de la Vega was born in La Habana, Cuba, November 28, 1925, educated at De La Salle College, Havana, 1940-1944 (B.A. in Humanities); University of Havana, 1944-1946 (M.A. in Diplomacy); Ada Iglesias Music Institute, Havana, 1951-1958 (M.A. in Musicology, 1956; Ph.D. in Composition, 1958) and studied composition privately with Fritz Kramer in Havana (1943-1946) and Ernst Toch in California (1947-1948). After occupying important positions in his native land (Editorial Secretary of Conservat...

Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1871-1942

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Felix Muhr was a young architect who proposed to Alma Mahler on 23 March 1901, according to her diary entry for that day. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Gustav Mahler, 1900-1930. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864872 Austrian composer and conductor. From the description of Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Berlin], 29 December [1927], to Breitkopf & Härtel, 1927 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Ormandy, Eugene

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x0001db Conductor; Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-1980. From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213481085 From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsyl...

Rochberg, George

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Composed in 1949; revised in 1957.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Capriccio / George Rochberg. [1957?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 236485838 Originally part of Symphony no. 1. Composed as a separate work, 1949. First performance New York, 23 April 1953, New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos conductor. Winner of the 8th annual George Gershwin Memorial Award, 1952.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of ...

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

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Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was among the most important conductors of the second half of the 20th Century and also the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. His best-known work is the Broadway musical West Side Story; other works include three symphonies, Chichester Psalms, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", the original score for the film On the Waterfront, and theater works including On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and his MASS. Bernstei...

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

Coates, Gloria

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Commissioned by the South German Radio Stuttgart.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 7 / by Gloria Coates. c1990. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45205097 Gloria Kannenberg Coates, 1938- , American composer and music director. She studied music composition at Columbia University with Jack Beeson and Otto Luening. From the description of Gloria Coates papers, 1970-1986. (Columbia Universit...

Moldenhauer, Mary

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Křenek, Ernst

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Krenek was an Austro-American composer. Robert Holliday was the director of the Hamline University Choir, St. Paul, Minn. Krenek was chair of the Hamline University Music Dept. the first six years of Holliday's tenure as director. From the description of Letters : to Robert Holliday, 1943-1976. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33996728 Commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra. Composed 1954. First performance Louisville, Kentucky, 12 February 1955, ...

Hanna, Irene, 1899-1980

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Pisk, Paul Amadeus

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Epithet: writer on music British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x00007e ...

Weiss, Adolph, 1891-1971

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Suggested by Goethe's "Die Geheimnisse." Composed 1922. First performance Rochester, New York, 1 May 1925, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Howard Hanson conductor. --Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of I segreti : tone poem for large orchestra / Adolph Weiss. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 57122744 ...

Britain, Radie

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Composed 1936-37. First performance by the Illinois Symphony Orchestra of the Works Project Administration, Chicago, Mar. 4, 1940, Izler Solomon conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Southern symphony : in four movements / Radie Britain. 1937. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43291270 Composed 1940. First performance Rochester, New York, 25 July 1940, Rochester Philharmonic, Howard Hanson conductor. Won the First National Prize of...

Van Slyck, Nicholas

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Piller, Boaz.

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