- Creator
- Yates, Marjorie, 1900-1996
- Call number
- JPB 01-71
- Preferred Citation
- Marjorie Yates collection of material principally relating to Myra Hess, Music Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Music Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965) was an English pianist. During the Second World War she organized and performed in hundreds of lunch time concerts at the National Gallery which had been emptied because of the threat of air raids. Marjorie Yates, a pianist and friend of Myra Hess, was born in England and moved in 1926 to the United States, where she taught music until 1968. Henriette Michelson was a piano teacher at The Juilliard School in New York City during the 1930's and 1940's, and later a resident of Jerusalem. Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) was an English piano teacher, author of works on piano technique, and composer. Photographic portraits of Myra Hess, Marjorie Yates, and Henriette Michelson; reproduction of a drawing of Mendelssohn by Varges; texts of speeches by Myra Hess about wartime concerts and about her teacher Tobias Matthay; programs, reviews, clippings, and other material about Myra Hess; clipping of obituary of Marjorie Yates.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
gift, Murphy, Joan, 09/--/1999Key terms
Names
- Yates, Marjorie, 1900-1996
- Hess, Myra, Dame, 1890-1965
- Matthay, Tobias, 1858-1945
- Michelson, Henriette
- American Music Collection
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Music DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor