Joseph Bloch Music Collection, 1942-1971.

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Joseph Bloch Music Collection, 1942-1971.

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Published music, manuscripts and manuscript facsimiles, mainly for piano solo. Highlights include: piano works by Charles-Valentin Alkan published by S. Richault and Costallat; a holograph of the 1st and 3rd movements from the piano suite From my diary by Roger Sessions; holograph facsimiles of works by Hugh Aitken, Benjamin Lees and William Mayer; a compilation of songs, vocal duets and piano solos by various composers published under diverse imprints dating from 1834 to 1844 and bound together subsequent to publication; and a series of study guides on piano repertory authored by Joseph Bloch with Peter Coraggio.

6.36 cubic feet (20 boxes)

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The Juilliard School, Lila Acheson Wallace Library

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Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985

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Composer and educator Sessions graduated from Harvard and studied under Horatio Parker at Yale. In 1926 he won a Guggenheim Professorship and worked at composition in Europe until 1933 as a winner of the American Rome Prize. He held posts at Princeton (1935), Berkeley, CA (1945), Princeton again (1953), and the Julliard School (1965). Among his compositions are four symphonies, several operas, a notable violin concerto (1935), and chamber music. His best known work remains his early BLACK MASKER...

Coraggio, Peter

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Lees, Benjamin

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Born on January 10, 1910 in Lyon, the French conductor and composer, Jean Martinon entered the Lyon and Paris conservatoires to study the violin. At Lyon, his teacher was Maurice Foundray and at the Paris Conservatory, he studied violin technique with Jules Boucherit. While at the Paris conservatory, Martinon took composition with Albert Roussel and Vincent d’Indy. After completing the composition courses, he studied conducting with Charles Munch and Désormière. He graduated from ...

Aitken, Hugh G. J.

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Mayer, William, 1925-

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Suggested by two unidentified lines of poetry: "Fresh is the snow, and beautiful the footprints left there ... ", and "Of fireflies and a summer night ..." Composed 1959. First performance New York, 12 February 1961, Orchestra of America, Richard Korn conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Two pastels : for orchestra / William Mayer. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52926707 Originally composed as the slow movement of the co...

Alkan, Charles-Valentin

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x000275 French pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 29 December 1860, to M. de Beauchesne, 1860, 29 December. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270680515 From the description of [Composition for piano]. 1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270561486 From the description ...

Bloch, Joseph, 1917-2009

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Pianist, pedagogue, and musicologist Joseph Bloch (November 6, 1917 -- March 4, 2009) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He studied piano with Bomar Cramer as a high school student, attended Butler University (1935-36), received a bachelor's degree from Chicago Musical College (1939), and after serving in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, earned a master's degree in musicology from Harvard University (1946) while studying with Olga Samaroff in New York. Bloch made his New Yor...