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Creator
Kreider, Noble W
Call number
JPB 84-396
Physical description
0.5 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language
English
Preferred Citation

Noble Kreider Scores, JPB 84-396, Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.

Repository
Music Division
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The Noble W. Kreider Scores represent the work of an American composer from the first part of the twentieth century.

Biographical/historical information

Very little information is available concerning Noble Wickham Kreider. He was born in 1874 in Goshen, Indiana, where he remained a life-long resident.

Arthur Farwell was an early champion of Kreider's work. In Musical America (May 22, 1909), Farwell wrote: "Kreider had drunk deep at the fountain of Chopin, and if the draught had somewhat qualified the nature of his own imagination, this was no more than happens to most successful composers whose earlier works are apt to disclose the sources of their first inspirations. But Kreider's music revealed also an imaginative quality of its own, which asserted itself with increasing strength in his more recently composed works, and indicated that here was a personality which was bound to find its way to individual expression." Farwell helped Kreider get some of his works published, and corresponded with Kreider at least into the 1930s. During a significant part of his career, Kreider taught music.

Noble W. Kreider died in Goshen, Indiana, in December 1959.

Scope and arrangement

This collection is believed to contain all the works that were with Noble Kreider at the time of his death. Several works, such as the preludes for piano, stem from his early years. These are among the works that probably made such a favorable impression upon Arthur Farwell. Kreider infrequently dated his works, although several dates from the 1940s in this collection give an example of his later direction.

The full extent of Kreider's compositional output is unknown.

Arrangement

Works are arranged alphabetically by title.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

The Noble W. Kreider Scores were willed to the Music Division of The New York Public Library by the composer. Upon his death, the materials were arranged by Charles Burkhart, who presented them to the library.

Processing information

Processed by Music Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Robert Kosovsky.

Separated material

The following presentation scores have been separated from the collection and are cataloged individually.

  • Classmark: JPB 84-280 Mills, Charles Borromeo, 1914- Again I grow : sacred canticle for voice and piano.
  • Classmark: JPB 84-263 Shepherd, Arthur, 1880-1958 [Capriccios, piano, no. 2]
  • Classmark: JPB 85-40 Shepherd, Arthur, 1880-1958 Fantasia for organ on the garden hymn.
  • Classmark: JPB 84-265 Shepherd, Arthur, 1880-1958 [Sonatas, piano, no. 2]

Using the collection

Location

Music Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor

Conditions Governing Use

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