Nicolai Berezowsky Scores, JPB 83-54, Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
The Inventory of Nicolai Berezowsky Scores contains scores from the composer's estate.
Nicolai Berezowsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 17, 1900. He studied piano, violin, and voice at the Imperial Chapel in St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1916. He was a violinist in the orchestras of the Saratov Opera (1917-1919) and the Bolshoi (1919-1920). He emigrated to New York in 1922 (becoming an American citizen in 1928), and played in the orchestra of the Capitol Theatre. From 1923-1929 he was a member of the New York Philharmonic. During this time he studied at the Juilliard School of Music violin with Paul Kochanski and composition with Rubin Goldmark. From 1935-1940 he was a member of the Coolidge String Quartet, and was an assistant conductor at CBS in 1932-1936 and again in 1941-1946. He received a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1948). Berezowsky died in New York on August 27, 1953.
The collection consists solely of scores composed by Nicolai Berezowsky.
The collection consists of a single series and is arranged by title of work. Sketches, incomplete, and fragmentary works are listed under "Selections."
The MAI numbers refer to records in the Music Division's in-house database. They are for staff use and can be ignored by the general user.
The Nicolai Berezowsky Scores were given to the Music Division by his estate.
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