Frédérique Petrides papers

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2170
origination
Petrides, Frédérique, 1903-1983
date statement
19--
key date
1900
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20170
org unit
Music Division
call number
JPB 83-3
b-number
b12603401
total components
493
total series
10
max depth
3
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component layout
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false
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false
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2013-04-01 15:04:24 UTC
updated
2026-08-15 02:20:36 UTC
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date_inclusive_start
1900
date_inclusive_end
1999
keydate
1900
date_start
1900
date_end
1999
unittitle
{"value"=>"Frédérique Petrides papers"}
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repository
{"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>"}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>Frédérique Petrides papers, Music Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Petrides, Frédérique, 1903-1983", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Frédérique Petrides (born Frederica Jeanne Elisabeth Petronille Mayer) was a violinist, teacher, publisher, and pioneering advocate for women in music.</p> <p>She was born in Antwerp, Belgium on September 26, 1903. She studied violin with Mathieu Crickboom, Gosta Andreasson, and Paul Stassevitch. In 1923 she emigrated to the United States, where she worked as a teacher and freelance violinist in New York City. She married Peter Petrides in 1931.</p> <p>She studied conducting with John Lawrence Erb and later attended New York Philharmonic rehearsals conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos from 1950 to 56.</p> <p>In 1933 Petrides founded the Orchestrette Classique (later known as Orchestrette of New York) for women instrumentalists. From 1934 to 1943 the group played in Aeolian Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall. For this orchestra, Petrides commissioned and performed new works by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Gian Carlo Menotti and Ralph Vaughan Williams. With her publication Women in Music (begun as the orchestra's newsletter) Petrides promoted the activities of professional women musicians.</p> <p>Petrides conducted summer concerts in Washington Square Park and Carl Schurz Park as well as the Hudson Valley Symphony Orchestra in Tarrytown, New York, Student Symphony Society of New York and the West Side Community Concerts.</p> <p>Frédérique Petrides died in New York City on January 12, 1983 at the age of 79. She was one of the most influential champions of women in the profession of music in the twentieth century.</p> <p>Sources</p> <p>Groh, Jan Bell. 1991. Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frédérique Petrides. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.</p> <p>\"Frédérique Petrides, Leader In Women's Music Activities\". New York Times, January 13, 1983.</p> <p>Hitchcock, H. Wiley and Stanley Sadie, ed. 1986. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. London: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The Frédérique Petrides Papers document her career as violinist, conductor and teacher, editor and publisher, and advocate for women as professional musicians. The bulk of the collection is correspondence. See also: Petrides in NYPL Digital Gallery (04/2008).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Frédérique Petrides papers are arranged in ten series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1210917'>Series 1: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Correspondents with several letters include: Mathieu Crickboom, David Diamond, Sophie Drinker, Musical Advance, National Broadcasting Company, Carol Neuls-Bates, A. R. Orage, Parks Department (of New York City), George Schaun, Virginia L. Short, Emily Skeel, H. B. Whitaker, and the World Center For Women's Archives, Inc.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211270'>Series 2: Research for Women in Music</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes the publication Women in Music, August 1935 to December 1940. Also includes clippings, correspondence, articles, photographs and notes pertaining to the publication.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211286'>Series 3: Work As Violinist, Teaching, Professional Influences</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>-Clippings, programs, photographs, correspondence.</p> <p>-Mostly typed, some autograph material.</p> <p>-Related names and works: Petrides, Frédérique; Dalton School; Llewellyn Park; Masters School, Dobbs Ferry; Seymour School; Mitropoulos, Dimitri.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211287'>Series 4: Work As a Conductor</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes correspondence, clippings, articles and programs including Orchestrette Classique, West Side Community Concerts, Carl Schurz and Washington Square Parks concerts</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211314'>Series 5: Personal and Family Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes correspondence, legal papers, personal notebooks and writings.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211362'>Series 6: Visual Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes photographs of family and career, sketches, drawings, and posters.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211388'>Series 7: Scores</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes holographs, manuscripts, and published scores, some with dedications to Petrides.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211397'>Series 8: Repertoire Books</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Autograph books listing works by various composers in Petrides hand.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211399'>Series 9: Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Clippings and programs relating to Frédérique Petrides and her concerts.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20170#c1211402'>Series 10: Supplementary Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes radio transcript and material by Jan Ellen Groh.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
processinfo
{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Precessed by Tema Hecht, September 1996. Revised April 2008</p>"}
note
{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Chiefly ms. and typescript"}
{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Contains material relating to the periodical Women in music"}
extent_statement
13 boxes ; 39 x 30 x 8 cm
abstract
{"value"=>" The Frédérique Petrides Papers document her career as violinist, conductor and teacher, editor and publisher, and advocate for women as professional musicians. The bulk of the collection is correspondence. See also: Petrides in NYPL Digital Gallery (04/2008).", "generated"=>true}

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