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Edward and Clara Steuermann collection, 1922-1981

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Legal & Financial Papers (continued)
BOX 2 BOX 44 Legal Papers
BOX-FOLDER 44/9 Birth certificates (2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Citizenship documents, immigration & naturalization papers, visa application
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 Contractual agreement with BMI
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Copyright materials (registration forms, lists)
BOX-FOLDER 44/10 War ministry papers (Wien, 1918)
BOX-FOLDER 46/6 Wills of Salka Viertel (Edward Steuermann's sister), 1932, 1939
2 documents
BOX 2 Financial Papers
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 Certification of bank account balance
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Estate of Edward Steuermann (correspondence & other documents)
BOX-FOLDER 2/15 Materials re piano purchase, sale, and ownership
BOX 2 Edward Steuermann Memorial Society
The Edward Steuermann Memorial Society series consists of official documents and minutes, correspondence, and programs, including both manuscript and printed materials.
Arrangement is alphabetical by format.
BOX-FOLDER 2/16 Certificate of incorporation, by-laws, minutes of board meetings, etc.
BOX-FOLDER 2/17 Correspondence (1965-1969)
BOX-FOLDER 2/18 Programs (1964-1965)
BOX 2 Clippings
The Clippings series consists primarily of photocopies of clippings, divided by subject: Steuermann as composer, Steuermann as pianist, Steuermann obituaries and tributes, and articles from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Arrangement is chronological by date.
BOX-FOLDER 2/19 Steuermann as composer (1927-1974, undated)
BOX-FOLDER 2/20 Steuermann as pianist (1934-1962, undated)
BOX-FOLDER 2/21 Obituaries and tributes
BOX-FOLDER 2/22 New Grove articles (photocopies): "Darmstadt," "Dartington Summer School," "Donaueschingen," and "International Society for Contemporary Music"
BOX 37-38 Books and Periodicals
The Books and Periodicals series consists of publications from Edward and Clara Steuermann's library.
Arrangement is alphabetical by author and title.
BOX 37-38 Books
Dorian, Frederick
BOX-FOLDER 37/1 The History of Music in Performance: The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to our Day. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1942.
[Dedication by the author, 1942] Kahn, Frida.
BOX-FOLDER 37/2 Generations in Turmoil. Great Neck, NY: Channel Press, Inc., 1960.
Liebowitz, René
BOX-FOLDER 37/3 Le compositeur et son double: Essais sur l"Interprétation musicale. Paris?: Éditions Gallimard, 1971.
BOX-FOLDER 37/4 L"Évolution de la musique de Bach à Schoenberg. Paris: Éditions Corrêa, 1951.
BOX-FOLDER 37/5 Histoire de l"opéra. Paris: Éditions Buchet/Chastel, 1957.
BOX-FOLDER 37/6 Introduction à la musique de douze sons. Paris: L"Arche, 1949.
BOX-FOLDER 37/7 Leibowitz, René and Konrad Wolff
Kahn, Erich Itor: Un grand représentant de la Musique contemporaine. Paris: Éditions Buchet/Chastel, 1958.
BOX-FOLDER 38/1 The Song of Solomon. Jerusalem: Shulammite, undated
Gift from parents of Steuermann student named Silvya, April 28, 1952.
Viertel, Berthold
BOX-FOLDER 38/2 Fürchte dich nicht! New York: Barthold Fles Verlag, 1941.
BOX-FOLDER 38/3 Der Lebenslauf. New York: Aurora Verlag, 1946.
Webern, Anton
BOX-FOLDER 38/4 Briefe an Hildegard Jone und Josef Humplik. Wien: Universal Edition, 1959.
BOX 38 Periodicals
BOX-FOLDER 38/5 L"Approdo musicale, 19-20 (1965).
BOX-FOLDER 38/6 Liebowitz, René. "Le mal du bon musicien," Le temps modernes, no. 192, p. 1739-1750.
BOX-FOLDER 38/7 Musical Quarterly, Vol. 52, no. 1 (January 1966).
BOX 39-42 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
The International Federation Of Library Associations (IFLA) series is represented by two subseries: Files of Clara Steuermann and IFLA Publications. Files of Clara Steuermann, manuscript and typescript with some printed matter (correspondence, reports, minutes, drafts, etc.). IFLA Publications, consisting of printed matter.
Arrangement is chronological by date or alphabetically by subject or title.
BOX 39-41 Files of Clara Steuermann , 1975-1981
BOX 39 By date
BOX-FOLDER 39/1 1975 (Abstracts, article: Music Libraries, by Miriam Miller)
BOX-FOLDER 39/2 1977 - Correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 39/3 1977 - Reports, forms
BOX-FOLDER 39/4 1978 - Reports, minutes, newsletter article
BOX-FOLDER 39/5 1978 - Correspondence, memoranda
BOX-FOLDER 39/6 1979 - Correspondence.
BOX-FOLDER 39/7 1979 - Directories, organizational chart, newsletter
BOX-FOLDER 39/8 1980 - Correspondence, memoranda
BOX-FOLDER 39/9 1980 - Minutes, reports, newsletters
BOX-FOLDER 39/10 1981 - Correspondence, memoranda
BOX-FOLDER 39/11 1981 - Committee lists, program drafts, newsletters
BOX 39-41 By subject
BOX-FOLDER 39/12 American Library Association & Music Library Association (1979)
BOX-FOLDER 39/13 Audio-Visual Media Working Group (1978-1979)
BOX-FOLDER 40/1 Brussels Congress (1977)
BOX-FOLDER 40/2 Conservation Section (1978-1979)
BOX-FOLDER 40/3-5 Copenhagen (1979) (3 folders)
BOX-FOLDER 40/6 Manila (1979-1980)
BOX-FOLDER 40/7 Round Table on Music in Libraries (1978-1981)
BOX-FOLDER 40/8 Special Libraries (serial publication) (1978-1979) (including March 1978 issue)
BOX-FOLDER 40/9 Special Libraries Division (1979-1980)
BOX-FOLDER 41/1-2 Strbske Pleso, Czechoslovakia, Congress (1978) (2 folders)
BOX 41-42 IFLA Publications
BOX-FOLDER 41/2-4 Directories (1976-1981) (3 folders)
BOX-FOLDER 42/1-6 IFLA Annual (1974-1979)
BOX-FOLDER 42/7-30 IFLA Journal (1975, Vol. 1, no. 1, to 1980, Vol. 6, no. 4)
BOX-FOLDER 41/5-9 Other publications, 1976-1981
Contents:
  • 1976-1977 - Progress Report
  • 1977 - Program & List of Participants at Brussels Congress
  • 1978 - Council Meeting Program, Tour Program, and List of Participants, Strbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia; IFLA Publications list
  • 1979 - Statutes & Rules of Procedure and ABC for IFLA officers
  • 1981 - INSPEL, Vol. 15, no. 1 & 3
BOX 2, 46 Photographs and Miscellany
Includes photograph of Edward Steuermann, report card of Margarete Steuermann, a notebook biographical chronology of Edward Steuermann, and miscellaneous printed material.
Arranged by format.
BOX-FOLDER 46/7-12 Informal and formal photographs
Depicted are Edward and Clara Steuermann (individually and together), as well as many of their friends, students, and colleagues (photographed individually and with the Steuermanns). Notable are photographs of: Alfred Brendel; Lorin Hollander; Juilliard piano faculty; Arthur Loesser; Moura Lympany; Arnold Schoenberg.
BOX-FOLDER 2/23 Photographs of Edward Steuermann (multiple copies of single studio portrait)
BOX-FOLDER 2/24 School report card of Margarete Steuermann (first wife of Edward Steuermann)
BOX-FOLDER 2/25 Report on the Music Institute at Kenyon College, Summer 1945 [typescript]
BOX-FOLDER 2/26 Black Mountain College Bulletin, Music Institute, Summer 1945
BOX-FOLDER 2/27 Edward Steuermann (Chronologogy notebook)
BOX-FOLDER 46/3 Clara Steuermann memorial tributes
Letters (copies) addressed to Leonard Stein following Clara's death; remarks written by Stein for Clara's memorial service; press releases and newspaper obituary notices.
BOX-FOLDER 46/4 Programs, 1982
Program from memorial service and pages containing guest book signatures of those attending service on Jan. 17; Arnold Schoenberg Institute program from exhibit honoring Clara Steuermann.
BOX-FOLDER 46/13 Travel chess game belonging to Edward Steuermann
Inside flat leather case
Embossed "E.S."

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