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Mary Virginia Foreman Le Garrec collection on Artur Schnabel, 1893-1996

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BOX 6 Books and Libretti, 1934-1972, undated
BOX 6 Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Don Giovanni (Don Juan). A Grand opera in two acts. New York: Fred Rullman, Inc., n.d.
47 p.
Libretto in Italian and English.
BOX 6 Dent, Edward J., Eric Blom, and Clemence Dane. Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” London: The Governors of Sadler’s Wells Foundation/John Lane the Bodley Head, 1946
48 p.
BOX 6 Saerchinger, César. Introduction by Clifford Curzon. Artur Schnabel: a biography. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1957
xviii, 354 p.
Contains annotations throughout, in pencil and in blue, black, and green inks, in the hand of MVFLG.
BOX 6 Schnabel, Artur. Music and the line of most resistance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942
91 p.
Verso of title page carries a dedication in Schnabel’s hand: “To M.V., / recommending the two lines: good / music and strong resistance – / for productive cooperation. / A.S. / N.Y.C. January 29, 1942”. Contains annotations throughout, in pencil, in the hand of MVFLG.
BOX 6 Schnabel, Artur. Edited and with an introduction by Edward Crankshaw. My life and music. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1961
xv, 223 p.
Contains annotations throughout, in pencil and in black ink, and one inlaid note, in black ink, in the hand of MVFLG.
BOX 6 Schnabel, Artur. >Reflections on music. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934
63 p.
Title page carries a dedication in Schnabel’s hand: “To Mary Virginia / A.S. / February 1935”.
BOX 6 Shakespeare, William. Edited by W.J. Craig. The complete works of Shakespeare. New York: Oxford University Press, n.d.
viii, 1352 p.
Carries a dedication in Schnabel’s hand: “A.S. / 17.IV.1936 / Many happy returns!!!” Enclosed note, in blue ink, in the hand of MVFLG, reads: “This book was / given me by A.S. / on his birthday. / He was leaving / for Europe! / M.V.F.”
BOX 6 Turner, W.J. Blow for balloons : being the first hemisphere of the history of Henry Airbubble. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1935
298 p.
BOX 6 Turner, W.J. Henry Airbubble: in search of a circumference to his breath; being the second hemisphere of the history of Henry Airbubble. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1936
303, 8 p.
Contains annotations on inside cover page, in black ink, in the hand of MVFLG.
BOX 6 Wolff, Konrad. The teaching of Artur Schnabel: a guide to interpretation. London: Faber and Faber, 1972
189 p.
BOX 7, 11 Iconography, circa 1934-1952, undated
BOX 11 Original and Published Photographs, Caricatures, and Cartoons, circa 1934-1946, undated
BOX 11/5 Artur Schnabel alone
(17 items)
BOX 11/6 Artur Schnabel alone: photoreproduced photographs
see also Box 7
(6 items)
BOX 11/7 Artur Schnabel with others: with MVFLG (New York), 1939
(1 item)
BOX 11/8 Artur Schnabel with others: with his mother (Vienna), circa 1936-1937
(1 item)
BOX 11/9 Artur Schnabel with others: with Carl Flesch
(1 item)
BOX 11/10 Artur Schnabel with others: with Hugo Bekker and Carl Flesch
(1 item)
BOX 11/11 Artur Schnabel with others: with Pablo Casals, Paul Hindemith and Bronislaw Huberman (Vienna), circa 1935
(1 item)
BOX 11/12 Artur Schnabel with others: with Willard MacGregor and an unidentified woman (Tremezzo), circa 1934-1935
(1 item)
BOX 11/13 Artur Schnabel with others: with pupils Peter Diamand, Helen Fogel, Betty Givin, Hertha Kroeling, and wife Therese Schnabel (Tremezzo), circa 1936
(1 item)
BOX 11/14 Artur Schnabel with others: with members of the American Quartet, in rehearsal (Los Angeles), 1945
(1 item)
BOX 11/15 Artur Schnabel with others: with members of the London Symphony Orchestra, in rehearsal (London), 1946
(2 items)
BOX 11/16 Artur Schnabel with others: photoreproduced photographs
(7 items)
BOX 11/17 Artur Schnabel’s home (“Villa Ginetta,” Tremezzo, Lake Como, Italy) and vicinity
(10 items)
BOX 11/18 Miscellaneous photographs: Artur Schnabel’s great grandson Christopher Herald [sic]
(1 item)
BOX 11/19 Photographs of painted portraits: of Artur Schnabel, MVFLG, Therese Schnabel
(5 items)
BOX 11/20 Caricatures of Artur Schnabel and cartoons regarding Schnabel
(6 items)
BOX 11/21 MVFLG alone
(10 items)
BOX 7 Large Studio Portrait Photographs and Oversize Iconography, 1935-1952
BOX 7/1 Artur Schnabel alone, in front of painting of him by Eugen Spiro, dated 1947 by MVFLG
Photographer: O.E. Nelson.
BOX-FOLDER 7/2 Artur Schnabel and son Karl Ulrich Schnabel, dated 1947 by MVFLG
Photographer: O.E. Nelson.
BOX-FOLDER 7/3 Artur Schnabel alone, dated 1950 by MVFLG
Photographer: O.E. Nelson.
BOX-FOLDER 7/4 Artur Schnabel alone; reproduced as the cover of Etude magazine, February 1952
Photographer not identified.
BOX-FOLDER 7/5 Artur Schnabel alone; reproduced as the cover of Musical Courier magazine, 26 January 1935
Photographer not identified.
BOX-FOLDER 7/6 Artur Schnabel with Frederick Stock, in rehearsal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; reproduced as publicity material for their Victor/Red Seal recording of Beethoven’s Concerto no. 4, undated
Photographer not identified.
Photograph reprinted “courtesy of the Chicago Sun.”
BOX-FOLDER 7/7 Artur Schnabel with Carl Ebert and Bruno Walter; reproduced in Picture Post magazine (article title: “Edinburgh’s Festival”), 20 September 1947
Photographer: Gerti Deutsch.
BOX-FOLDER 7/8 MVFLG, 1948
Photographer not identified.

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