- unitid
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{"value"=>"JOB 14-01", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"22315", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1951-1959", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1951/1959"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1951
- date_inclusive_end
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1959
- keydate
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1951
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Jean Stein files on Rudolf Von Oertzen and Friedelind Wagner"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".21 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"MUS", "value"=>"Music Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Jean Stein files on Rudolf Von Oertzen and Friedelind Wagner date from 1951 to 1959. They mainly document the aborted 1959 production of Von Oertzen’s opera The Odyssey in Shreveport, Louisiana, as well as the friendship of Friedelind Wagner and Jean Stein."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Jean Stein files on Rudolf Von Oertzen and Friedelind Wagner, JOB 14-01. Music Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Stein, Jean", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Rudolf Von Oertzen (1910-1990), a German composer, was born in Neuhaus, Mecklenburg. A professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Von Oertzen was the winner of the 1956 Schiller prize from the West German government for his oratorio Hiob. Among his other compositions were an opera, The Odyssey, a symphony, cantatas, lieder for vocalist and orchestra, chamber music, and instrumental concerti.</p> <p>Friedelind Wagner (1918-1991) was the granddaughter of Richard Wagner. An opera director who was long associated with the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, she was set to cast and direct a production of Rudolf Von Oertzen’s opera The Odyssey in Shreveport, Louisiana, before the production was cancelled.</p> <p>Jean Stein, a resident of Shreveport, met Friedelind Wagner around 1950 and became friends with her. It was through that friendship that John Shenaut, the Music Director of the Shreveport Symphony Society, contacted Rudolf Von Oertzen to propose a production of The Odyssey.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Rudolf Von Oertzen portions of the collection were presumably given to Jean Stein by Friedelind Wagner. Jean Stein held the collection until she donated it to the Music Division in 2007.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Jean Stein files on Rudolf Von Oertzen and Friedelind Wagner date from 1951 to 1959. They document the aborted production of Von Oertzen’s opera The Odyssey by the Shreveport (Louisiana) Symphony Society, as well as the friendship of Stein and Wagner.</p> <p>The files on Von Oertzen hold correspondence (some in German) between Von Oertzen and John Shenaut, the Musical Director of the Shreveport Symphony Society, who in 1957 proposed a production of The Odyssey in Shreveport. The project eventually collapsed in 1959. Also present are Von Oertzen’s notes on the resources necessary for the production, a publicity brochure listing Von Oertzen’s compositions, a 1952 photograph of Von Oertzen with Arthur Rubinstein, and an undated photograph of Von Oertzen and his wife.</p> <p>The file on Friedelind Wagner primarily contains letters from Wagner to Stein dating from 1951 to 1959, the last few of which discuss the attempted production of The Odyssey in Shreveport. It also holds a photograph of Wagner with Stein and her children, and two clippings from April 1959, one picturing Wagner with Stein, and the other picturing Wagner working on the opera.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is in two divisions: Rudolf Von Oertzen's correspondence and photographs, and Friedelind Wagner's letters to Jean Stein.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Jean Stein in 2007.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Matthew Snyder</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Original order was maintained. Some papers were rehoused.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.21 linear feet (1 box)
- date_start
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1951
- date_end
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1959