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Arnold Schoenberg correspondence and other papers, 1894-1959

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BOX 1-32 Correspondence, 1894-1959 (bulk 1920s-1940s)
This series contains correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and notable musical figures, organizations, and family members.
Organized as two subseries.
BOX 1-8 Correspondence from Schoenberg, 1900-1954
This subseries consists of holograph and typescript letters that Schoenberg wrote to other musicians, organizations, record labels, music publishers, and family members. Composers, music theorists, and conductors comprise the majority of correspondents. These include his teacher Alexander Zemlinsky, as well as his students Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hans Eisler, Dika Newlin, and brother-in-law Rudolf Kolisch. Other recipients include composers who incorporated Schoenberg’s compositional techniques into their work, such as Henry Cowell, Luigi Dallapiccola, Ernst Krenek, René Leibowitz, and Edgar Varèse. Conductors who programmed his works are also well represented and include Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hans Kindler, Otto Klemperer, Serge Koussevitzky, Dmitri Mitropoulis, Fritz Reiner, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Leopold Stokowski. Béla Bartók, Pablo Casals, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Aaron Copland, and Alma Mahler are among the many additional musicians with whom he corresponded.
These materials also offer insight into Schoenberg's associations with music societies and foundations, such as the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, American Federation of Musicians, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Guggenheim Foundation, and the International Society for Contemporary Music. Finally, it includes correspondence with numerous major symphony orchestras in the United States and various universities where he lectured, such as the University of Southern California, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to his professional associations, these materials document Schoenberg’s familial relationships, including those with his first wife Mathilde, second wife Gertrud, son Georg, mother Pauline, brother Heinrich, and his cousin Arthur Schoenberg. Physicist Albert Einstein and expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky are among other notable correspondents.
Arranged alphabetically by last name.
BOX-FOLDER 1/12-13 "A" miscellaneous, 1923-1951 and undated
98 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Adams, Robert D. W., 1940-1948
10 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Adler, Oscar, 1938-1951
10 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, 1920-1930
3 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Alco Records - Compinsky, Alec, 1949-1950
5 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 American Federation of Musicians - Petrillo, James Caesar, 1950
6 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 American League of Composers from Austria - Beer, Gustave, 1947-1951
19 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 1939-1951
see also Taylor, Deems
58 leaves
Amersdorfer
see Berlin Akademie der Künste - Amersdorfer
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Apostel, Hans Erich, 1934-1951
1 leaf
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 Armitage, Merle, 1943-1950
3 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 Associated Music Publishers, 1943
63 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/11 Der Auftakt, 1930
4 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/31-33 "B" miscellaneous, 1923-1951
162 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Bach, David J., 1901-1945
9 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/15 Bank of America, 1928-1949 and undated
163 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 Bartók, Béla, 1912-1919
5 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Basch, Walter, 1930-1932
14 leaves
Beer, Gustave
see American League of Composers from Austria - Beer, Gustave
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Bekker, Paul, 1927-1929
7 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 Benoff, Mac, 1950-1951
5 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 Berg, Alban, 1919-1920
13 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/22 Berlin Akademie der Künste - Amersdorfer, 1912-1933
38 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/23 Berlin miscellaneous, 1926-1935
34 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 Berliner Rundfunk - Dr. Flesch, 1929-1931
17 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/24 Birchard & Co. - Birchard, Clarence C., 1934-1941
4 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/25 Blumenthal, Max, 1930
11 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/26 Bomart Music Publications, 1946-1951
see also List, Kurt
49 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/27 Boosey & Hawkes, 1938-1950
see also Heinsheimer, Hans; Stein, Erwin
5 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/28 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1934-1950
13 leaves
Boult, Adrian, 1933-1939
see British Broadcasting Corporation
BOX-FOLDER 1/29 British Broadcasting Corporation, 1918-1950
30 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1/30 Brunswick, Mark, 1938-1944
9 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/16-17 "C" miscellaneous, 1919-1951
138 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 California (various organizations), 1934-1949
11 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Capitol Records, 1949-1951
15 leaves
Carbon books
BOX-FOLDER 8/22 1910-1922
2 books; 81 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/23 1911-1912
45 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/24 1912-1913
38 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/25 1913
47 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/26 1914-1915
75 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/27 1917-1922
49 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/28 1920-1922
Telegrams; 14 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/29 A, 1922 July-August
7 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/30 B, 1922 July-August
19 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/31 1922 July-October
18 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/32 A, 1922 July- November
39 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/33 B, 1922 July-November
8 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/34 1922 August-December
21 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 8/35 1930
39 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Casals, Pablo, 1933-1950
8 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Chicago (various organizations), 1933-1938
9 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Chicago University, 1934-1948
27 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 Cleveland Orchestra, 1938
6 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Colorado Orchestra, 1950-1951
8 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 Columbia Records, 1936-1951
27 leaves
Compinsky, Alec
see Alco Records - Compinsky, Alec
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1927-1950
10 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 Copland, Aaron, 1944-1950
6 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Cowell, Henry, 1943-1949
2 leaves
BOX-FOLDER 2/15 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1951
5 leaves
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