- unitid
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{"value"=>"JOB 93-4", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20213", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1907-1979", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1907/1979"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Correspondence and scores belonging to Carlos Chavez"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"0.5 cubic feet (2 boxes)"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Music Division.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"This collection partly documents Chávez's career as a conductor, composer, and as a leading musical figure in Mexico."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Correspondence mostly in English with several in French, and a few replies in Spanish"}
{"value"=>"English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence and Scores Belonging to Carlos Chávez, JOB 93-4, Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Chávez, Carlos, 1899-1978", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Carlos Chávez was born June 13, 1899, in Calzada de Tacube (near Mexico City). As a child he studied piano with Pedro Luis Ogazon, and harmony with Juan B. Fuentes and Manuel Ponce. He was already composing elaborate works in his teens. In 1922-23 he traveled in France, Austria, and Germany, and became acquainted with modern musical developments. He returned briefly to Mexico where he introduced works of contemporary composers, among them Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Varese. From 1926-28 he lived in New York City, returning in 1928 to create the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico. (In 1949 it was renamed Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.) From 1928-35 Chávez was the director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, and was general director of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes from 1946 to 1952.</p> <p> Chávez published his <span class=\"title\">Toward a New Music</span> (New York: Norton, 1937). His second book, <span class=\"title\">Musical Thought</span> (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961) was an outgrowth of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures, given at Harvard University in 1958-59.</p> <p>Carlos Chávez died on August 2, 1978, in Mexico City.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection offers a partial view of Chávez's career as the leading musical figure in Mexico -- as conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico and as a composer. The correspondence contains letters from Béla Bartók, Leonard Bernstein, Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Rudolf Firkusny, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky and Edgard Varèse. The many letters from Copland are particularly fascinating as they reveal a friendship based on mutual respect and concern for each others' lives. Nearly all scores are inscribed by their composers, and in several cases (particularly those by Varèse) Chávez's conductor-markings are entered in red pencil. Holograph scores by Orbón, Revueltas, and Ponce are included.</p> <p>Most of Chávez's holograph musical scores and sketches are located in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. They are cataloged individually in CATNYP, the library's online catalog (http://catnyp.nypl.org).</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Correspondence and scores belonging to Carlos Chavez is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20213#c541441'>Series 1: Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20213#c541460'>Series 2: Scores</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection is arranged in two series.</p> <p>Series 1 contains correspondence, arranged alphabetically by sender.</p> <p>Series 2 contains published and unpublished scores that were presented to Chávez. Detailed and individual cataloging for each of these scores may be found in <em>CATNYP</em>, the New York Public Library's online catalog. For convenience, author and title listings are included here and are arranged alphabetically by composer.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection was a gift from the composer's daughter, Ana Chávez in September 1993. It complements her previous gifts to the Music Division of Chávez's music manuscripts.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Robert Kosovsky.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to copy or publish please contact the Music Division.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of Carlos Chavez's papers resides in the Biblioteca Nacional in Mexico City.</p> <p>Chavez's music manuscripts are cataloged individually and may be found in the online catalog CATNYP: http://catnyp.nypl.org.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Letters include correspondence from Bela Bartok (1), Leonard Bernstein (3), Nadia Boulanger (10), Aaron Copland (89), Rudolf Firkusny (3), Darius Milhaud (1), Igor Stravinsky (10) and Edgard Varʹese (20). Scores include holographs by Orbʹon, Ponce and Revueltas"}
- date_start
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1907
- keydate
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1907
- date_end
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1979
- date_inclusive_start
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1907
- date_inclusive_end
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1979