Arthur Kleiner Collection. 1917-1980.

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Arthur Kleiner Collection. 1917-1980.

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The collection contains music scores for silent films both printed and manuscripts including Birth of a Nation, Thief of Bagdad, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and Potemkin. Some of the music scores are Kleiner' s compositions or arrangements. The majority of the scores are by other composers among them Hugo Riesenfeld, Edmund Meisel, Joseph Carl Breil, Mortimer Wilson and others. It also includes several Kleiner's manuscripts for children films, a selection of sheet music and piano scores, tapes of interviews, broadcasting and lectures, correspondence, film festival posters, business documents, clippings, books, and photographs and slides of composers, dancers and others, among them Anna Pavlova and Nijinsky.

ca. 90 manuscripts.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 7816997

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota. Libraries. Special Collections

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Riesenfeld, Hugo, 1879-1939

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P.C. White was an organist during the early 20th century, working in North Carolina and other locations. He retired in the mid-1930s. From the guide to the P. C. White collection of motion picture accompaniments, approxmaently 1920s, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Nijinsky, Vaslaw, 1890-1950

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Russian dancer and choreographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., St. Petersburg], 24 July [n.y.], to Mikhail Dimitrievich, [n.y.] July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582957 From the description of Autograph sentiment signed, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873596 ...

Meisel, Edmund, 1894-1930

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Austrian composer and conductor. From the description of Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Berlin], 20 October 1922, to Otto Eckermann, 1922 Oct. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582136 ...

Wilson, Mortimer, 1876-1932

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Wilson was born on Aug. 6, 1876 in Chariton, IA; studied in Chicago with Jacobsohn, Gleason, and Middelschulte (1894-1900); taught theory at University School of Music in Lincoln, NE (1901-7); spent 3 years in Leipzig, Germany, studying with Sitt and Reger; was at the Atlanta Conservatory in 1911 and conducted the Symphony Orchestra; taught at Brenau College, Gainesville, GA (1916-18); was consulting editor for the National Academy of Music in NY; wrote The rhetoric of music (1907); composed 5 s...

Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931

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Ballerina. From the description of Anna Pavlova collection, 1909-[ongoing]. (Museum of Performance & Design). WorldCat record id: 430368594 Anna Pavlova was a Russian ballet dancer. Gabriel Astruc was a French producer, publisher, talent manager and founder of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Between 1907 and 1913 Astruc also handled a variety of theatrical business matters for Serge Diaghilev, including publicity, contract negotiations, financial backing, negotiations fo...

Breil, Joseph Carl, 1870-1926

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Kleiner, Arthur

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