Collection of papers, photographs, and recordings, 1930-1969.

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Collection of papers, photographs, and recordings, 1930-1969.

Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, recordings, programs, clippings, datebooks and other personal papers from the estate of the violinist Feri Roth. Correspondents include George Antheil, Alfredo Cassela, Carlos Chávez, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Lukas Foss, Benny Goodman, Morton Gould, Roy Harris, Andre Previn, Artur Schnabel, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Marcel Vertés, and Meredith Willson.

9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7883717

University of California, Los Angeles

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Roth quartet

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Roth, Feri, 1899-1969

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Born July 18, 1899, at Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, Feri Roth received his musical training at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest where he graduated in 1917. His first position was the concertmastership of the Budapest Opera from 1919-1920; a year later he joined the Berlin Volksoper in the same capacity. In 1922, he founded the string quartet which bore his name for forty-seven years. Two years later, the quartet made a successful debut in Paris, then embarked on a tour of Europe and A...