Music scores from the Isadora Duncan School

id
4407
origination
Duncan, Irma
date statement
1914?-1949?
key date
1914
identifier (local_mss)
19739
org unit
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
call number
*MGZMD 109
b-number
b12539333
total components
43
total series
0
max depth
N/A
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:02 UTC
updated
2026-06-25 15:07:55 UTC
status note
(missing)
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physdesc
{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"42 folders in 3 legal size document boxes"}
unitid
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 109", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19739", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1914?-1949?", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable", "normal"=>"1914/1949"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Music scores from the Isadora Duncan School"}
repository
{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library.Dance Collection</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
prefercite
{"value"=>"Music scores from the Isadora Duncan School, *MGZMD 109. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
origination
{"value"=>"Duncan, Irma", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Collector", "role_code"=>"col"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Irma Duncan was born Irma Dorette Ehrich-Grimme on February 26, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein near Hamburg. Becoming a pupil of Isadora Duncan in January 1905 at her Grunewald School near Berlin, she later, along with five other original pupils, was adopted by Isadora. Her name was legally changed to Irma Duncan in 1917.</p> <p> In 1918 the six formed an independent group known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Irma's debut as such occurred at Carnegie Hall on June 27 of that year.</p> <p> In 1921 she accompanied Isadora to Russia to found, at the government's invitation, a school of dance. Irma served as a teacher in Moscow for seven years making her solo debut there on April 29, 1923. After Isadora's death in 1927 until 1930, she directed the Moscow school. She toured with her students to Europe and to the United States (the latter during the 1928-1929 and 1929-1930 seasons). When her group, known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow, was forced to return to Russia, Irma chose to remain in the United States. Duncan became a US citizen in 1935. She married Sherman S. Rogers, a New York attorney, on September 19, 1935. She authored several books on Isadora Duncan and her technique.</p> <p> Irma Duncan Rogers died on September 20, 1977.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The music scores from the Isadora Duncan School in Moscow are part of a larger collection of Irma Duncan papers, received by the Library as a gift from Irma Duncan.</p> <p> The collection includes music scores used by Isadora Duncan for a number of choreographic works: Mazurka (Chopin), Orpheus (Gluck), Schubert suite (Schubert), Iphigenia In Tauris (Gluck), Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) as well as music scores used by Irma Duncan at school.</p> <p> For more information on the choreographic works see The Dance Collection catalog.</p> <p> For more information about the Irma Duncan papers see the finding aid for *MGZMD 47 Duncan, Irma. Papers, 1905-1977 at the reference desk.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Irma Duncan Rogers</p>"}
date_inclusive_start
1914
date_inclusive_end
1949
arrangement
{"value"=>"Alphabetical by composer or by title of works of various composers"}
note
{"value"=>"<p>This collection is part of a larger gift of materials from Irma Duncan Rogers, including manuscripts, photographs, clippings, programs, and memorabilia, now dispersed throughout the Dance Collection</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Register available in repository: folder level control</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Music scores from the Isadora Duncan School in Moscow and from Irma Duncan's personal collection. Chiefly piano music and songs. Includes scores used for Isadora Duncan's choreographic works: Mazurka, Orpheus, Schubert suite, Iphigenia in Tauris, Waltzes, and Symphony no. 6."}
keydate
1914
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Irina Klyagin; machine-readable finding aid created by Catherine Johnson.</p>"}
date_start
1914
date_end
1949

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