Mannes - Damrosch collection, 1848-1986 (bulk 1900-1950).

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Mannes - Damrosch collection, 1848-1986 (bulk 1900-1950).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71060094

Includes biographical materials, correspondence, writings, music, programs, clippings, artwork, photographs, awards, and other materials. Biographical materials include a copy of autobiography of Leopold Damrosch and memoirs of Marie von Heimburg, the aunt of Clara, Frank, and Walter Damrosch. Both items also exist in Damrosch-Tee Van Collection and Damrosch-Blaine Collection. The correspondence consists of letters between members of the Mannes and Damrosch families and other important correspondents, including Percy Goetschius, Franz Lizst (translation from the original), Daniel Gregory Mason, Sergei Rachmaninoff, John D. Rockefeller, Arthur Schnabel, Randall Thompson, and others. The writings contain primerily numerous literary works by Marya Mannes and articles by Leopold Damrosch, Clara Damrosch Mannes, Leopold Mannes. The music consists of holograph scores, parts, and sketches of compositions by Leopold Damrosch. Also included are manuscript copies of works by Heinrich Gottwald, holograph scores of Edmund Singer, and of songs by Leopold Mannes. The photographs consist of photoprints and 27 albums of photoprints chiefly related to Mannes and Damrosch families. The artwork includes portraits of various members of the Mannes and Damrosch families, sketches by Clara Damrosch Mannes, and photographic reproductions of sculptures of Marya Mannes.

around 1,700 items (36 containers,12 linear feet)

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Schnabel, Artur

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Mannes, Leopold

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Composed 1924-26. First performance Rochester, N.Y., 23 January 1928, Rochester Philharmonic, Howard Hanson conductor. Mannes won the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, 1925, for this and other works.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite for orchestra : "breve ma grave" / Leopold D. Mannes. 1924. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52907988 Leopold Mannes, born Dec. 26, 1899, New York, and died Aug. 11, 1964, Vineyard Haven, Mass. American ...

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Goetschius, Percy, 1853-1943

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Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978

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Mannes, Clara, 1869-1948

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Mannes, David, 1866-1959

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Mannes, Marya

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Author, editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Marya Mannes : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733778 ...