Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1964.

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Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1964.

Comprises 3 items, 3 leaves correspondence. Contains letters from Roman Ryterband and Hans Tischler.

3 items (3 l. and 1 program).

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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...

International Society for Contemporary Music.

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The League of Composers was co-founded in 1923 in New York by Claire Raphael Reis and several contemporary composers. Conceived as an alternative to the International Composers' Guild, the League's mission was to promote the composition and performance of contemporary music. By 1954, the League had commissioned 110 works by outstanding American and European composers (including Aaron Copland, Bela Bartók and Samuel Barber), sponsored American stage premières of Igor Stravinsky's The...

Tischler, Hans, 1915-2010

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Hans Tischler, musicologist, was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 18, 1915 to Joachim and Grete Spitz. He married musicologist Louise Hochdorf in 1938 and later married Alice Bock, pianist, in 1958. In 1933, he earned a Piano Pedagogy Diploma at the Vienna Conservatory under Paul Wittigstein, Eduard Steurmann and Bertha Jahn-Beer. Tischler earned two master's degrees from the Vienna State Academy and two Ph.D's in Musicology, the first from Vienna University in 1937 and the second from Yale U...