Found 5 collections related to Berg, Alban, 1885-1935

Fritz Mahler was a Austrian-American conductor, composer, music teacher and radio personality . The collection contains memorabilia related to his work, including clippings, recital programs, correspondence, photographs, writings (articles and radio notes) and scrapbooks. less

An American composer and theorist, George Perle received his Ph.D. degree in 1956 from N.Y. Univ. with the dissertation Serial Composition and Atonality (publ. 1962; 4th ed. 1977). He also wrote Twelve-tone Tonality (1977); The Operas of Alban Berg (v. 1, Wozzeck, v. 2, Lulu; 1980-1985); The Listening Composer (1990); and numerous articles on Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern. He is co-founder and director of the International Alban Berg Society. Manuscripts of books, articles, reviews, and student term papers (the last under the name Perlman); correspondence (about publications; about theory, chiefly with Paul Lansky; and about the Society); bibliography of books and articles by and about Perle; income tax records; programs; flyers; clippings; and musical scores of compositions (page proofs and photocopies of holographs, with emendations in the hand of the composer). Musical scores have classmark JPB 89-3 and will be cataloged separately in the Scores file. less

The League of Composers / International Society for Contemporary Music records contain the papers of the League's co-founder and first Executive Director, Claire Raphael Reis; the records of both the League of Composers and the United States section of the ISCM before their 1954 merger; and the post-1954 records of the combined League/ISCM. less

Louis Krasner, a Russo-American violinist, commissioned the Alban Berg Violin Concerto and gave it its first performance ; he also gave the first performance of the Arnold Schoenberg Violin Concerto. Articles by and about Krasner, and typescripts of unpublished talks by Krasner. Includes clippings and typescripts, some with autograph emendations (photocopies). less