Marc Blitzstein letters, 1927 - 1944

File — Box: 1, Folder: .B54

Identifier: Folder .B54

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Collection of single letters, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera relating to composers, conductors, performers, musicologists, publishers, librettists, and stage directors.

Dates

1927 - 1944

Creator

From the Collection: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Music Library (Organization)
From the Collection: Adams, Leslie, 1932- (Person)
From the Collection: Albright, William (Person)
From the Collection: Alfvén, Hugo, 1872-1960 (Person)
From the Collection: Antheil, George, 1900-1959 (Person)
From the Collection: Apel, Willi, 1893-1988 (Person)
From the Collection: Arnold, Corliss Richard (Person)
From the Collection: Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011 (Person)
From the Collection: Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945 (Person)
From the Collection: Barnett, John, 1802-1890 (Person)
From the Collection: Bassett, Leslie, 1923-2016 (Person)
From the Collection: Beadell, Robert (Person)
From the Collection: Beecham, Thomas, 1879-1961 (Person)
From the Collection: Berberian, Cathy (Person)
From the Collection: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935 (Person)
From the Collection: Berger, Jean, 1909-2002 (Person)
From the Collection: Bergsma, William, 1921-1994 (Person)
From the Collection: Bériot, Ch. de (Charles), 1802-1870 (Person)
From the Collection: Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989 (Person)
From the Collection: Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 (Person)
From the Collection: Blitzstein, Marc (Person)
From the Collection: Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959 (Person)
From the Collection: Bolcom, William (Person)
From the Collection: Bond, Victoria (Person)
From the Collection: Bossi, Marco Enrico, 1861-1925 (Person)
From the Collection: Bossi, Renzo, 1883-1965 (Person)
From the Collection: Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016 (Person)
From the Collection: Braithwaite, J. Roland, 1927-2014 (Person)
From the Collection: Brindle, Reginald Smith, 1917-2003 (Person)
From the Collection: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 (Person)
From the Collection: Brovsky, Linda (Person)
From the Collection: Brown, Les, 1912-2001 (Person)
From the Collection: Bukofzer, Manfred F., 1910-1955 (Person)
From the Collection: Bussotti, Sylvano (Person)
From the Collection: Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946 (Person)
From the Collection: Callender, Clifton (Person)
From the Collection: Cardew, Cornelius (Person)
From the Collection: Carlstedt, Jan (Person)
From the Collection: Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012 (Person)
From the Collection: Casella, Alfredo, 1883-1947 (Person)
From the Collection: Castellini, John, 1905-2002 (Person)
From the Collection: Cheatham, Wallace (Person)
From the Collection: Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842 (Person)
From the Collection: Colgrass, Michael (Person)
From the Collection: Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 (Person)
From the Collection: Cortot, Alfred, 1877-1962 (Person)
From the Collection: Costa, Michael, 1808-1884 (Person)
From the Collection: Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965 (Person)
From the Collection: Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (Person)
From the Collection: Crumb, George (Person)
From the Collection: Dallapiccola, Luigi, 1904-1975 (Person)
From the Collection: Darasse, Xavier, 1934-1992 (Person)
From the Collection: Davidovsky, Mario, 1934-2019 (Person)
From the Collection: Dawson, Frederick, 1868-1940 (Person)
From the Collection: Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 (Person)
From the Collection: Decker, Pamela (Person)
From the Collection: De Lara, Isidore, 1858-1935 (Person)
From the Collection: Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008 (Person)
From the Collection: Devriès, Hermann, 1858-1949 (Person)
From the Collection: Diemer, Emma Lou (Person)
From the Collection: Donato, Anthony (Person)
From the Collection: Dorati, Antal (Person)
From the Collection: Durand, Auguste, 1830-1909 (Person)
From the Collection: Durand, Jacques, 1865-1928 (Person)
From the Collection: Eichheim, Henry, 1870-1942 (Person)
From the Collection: Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 (Person)
From the Collection: Elvey, George J. (Person)
From the Collection: Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939 (Person)
From the Collection: Devries, René, 1880-1959 (Person)
From the Collection: Escot, Pozzi (Person)
From the Collection: Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946 (Person)
From the Collection: Fiedler, Arthur, 1894-1979 (Person)
From the Collection: Forsell, John, 1868-1941 (Person)
From the Collection: Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009 (Person)
From the Collection: Gade, Niels W. (Niels Wilhelm), 1817-1890 (Person)
From the Collection: Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 (Person)
From the Collection: Ghisi, Federico (Person)
From the Collection: Godowsky, Leopold, 1870-1938 (Person)
From the Collection: Goldovsky, Boris (Person)
From the Collection: Golschmann, Vladimir, 1893-1972 (Person)
From the Collection: Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 1829-1869 (Person)
From the Collection: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 (Person)
From the Collection: Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 (Person)
From the Collection: Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000 (Person)
From the Collection: Hamerik, Ebbe, 1898-1951 (Person)
From the Collection: Hammerich, Angul, 1848-1931 (Person)
From the Collection: Hancock, Eugene W. (Eugene Wilson), 1929-1994 (Person)
From the Collection: Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 (Person)
From the Collection: Hanson, Howard, 1896-1981 (Person)
From the Collection: Harris, Roy, 1898-1979 (Person)
From the Collection: Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman (Person)
From the Collection: Hays, Sorrel, 1941-2020 (Person)
From the Collection: Heller, Stephen, 1813-1888 (Person)
From the Collection: Henze, Hans Werner, 1926-2012 (Person)
From the Collection: Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 (Person)
From the Collection: Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934 (Person)
From the Collection: Husa, Karel, 1921-2016 (Person)
From the Collection: Ichiyanagi, Toshi, 1933-2022 (Person)
From the Collection: Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919 (Person)
From the Collection: Imbrie, Andrew, 1921-2007 (Person)
From the Collection: Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 (Person)
From the Collection: Ireland, John, 1879-1962 (Person)
From the Collection: Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 (Person)
From the Collection: Ives, Harmony Twichell (Person)
From the Collection: Jeppesen, Knud, 1892-1974 (Person)
From the Collection: Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (Person)
From the Collection: Johnson, Calvert, 1949- (Person)
From the Collection: Jordan, Sverre, 1889-1972 (Person)
From the Collection: Jullien, Adolphe, 1845-1932 (Person)
From the Collection: Keuris, Tristan, 1946-1996 (Person)
From the Collection: Kirchner, Theodor, 1823-1903 (Person)
From the Collection: Koch, Erland von, 1910-2009 (Person)
From the Collection: Krenek, Ernst, 1900-1991 (Person)
From the Collection: Lacy, M. Rophino (Michael Rophino), 1795-1867 (Person)
From the Collection: Lalo, Édouard, 1823-1892 (Person)
From the Collection: Lange, Ina, 1846-1930 (Person)
From the Collection: Lava, William, 1911-1971 (Person)
From the Collection: LeBaron, Anne (Person)
From the Collection: Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919 (Person)
From the Collection: Libert, Henri, 1869-1937 (Person)
From the Collection: Ligeti, György, 1923-2006 (Person)
From the Collection: Lockwood, Normand, 1906-2002 (Person)
From the Collection: Lothar, Mark, 1902-1985 (Person)
From the Collection: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Person)
From the Collection: Mackerras, Charles, 1925-2010 (Person)
From the Collection: Malipiero, Gian Francesco, 1882-1973 (Person)
From the Collection: Malipiero, Anna (Person)
From the Collection: Martino, Donald, 1931-2005 (Person)
From the Collection: Martinů, Bohuslav, 1890-1959 (Person)
From the Collection: Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945 (Person)
From the Collection: Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 (Person)
From the Collection: Maw, Nicholas (Person)
From the Collection: Melchior, Lauritz (Person)
From the Collection: Mennin, Peter (Person)
From the Collection: Messager, André, 1853-1929 (Person)
From the Collection: Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 (Person)
From the Collection: Meyerowitz, Jan, 1913-1998 (Person)
From the Collection: Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 (Person)
From the Collection: Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960 (Person)
From the Collection: Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964 (Person)
From the Collection: Mörike, Eduard, 1804-1875 (Person)
From the Collection: Musgrave, Thea (Person)
From the Collection: Nielsen, Carl, 1865-1931 (Person)
From the Collection: Nono, Luigi (Person)
From the Collection: Nono, Nuria Schoenberg, 1932- (Person)
From the Collection: Norman, Ruth, 1927-2007 (Person)
From the Collection: Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016 (Person)
From the Collection: Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 (Person)
From the Collection: Pacini, signor (Antonio Francesco Gaetano Saverio), 1778-1866 (Person)
From the Collection: Ornstein, Leo, 1892-2002 (Person)
From the Collection: Parker, Alice, 1925- (Person)
From the Collection: Parry, C. Hubert H. (Charles Hubert Hastings), 1848-1918 (Person)
From the Collection: Perle, George, 1915-2009 (Person)
From the Collection: Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-1987 (Person)
From the Collection: Pierné, Gabriel, 1863-1937 (Person)
From the Collection: Pinkham, Daniel (Person)
From the Collection: Piston, Walter, 1894-1976 (Person)
From the Collection: Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886 (Person)
From the Collection: Porter, Quincy, 1897-1966 (Person)
From the Collection: Potter, Philip Cipriani Hambly, 1792-1871 (Person)
From the Collection: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963 (Person)
From the Collection: Pousseur, Henri (Person)
From the Collection: Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 (Person)
From the Collection: Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937 (Person)
From the Collection: Reeves, Sims, 1818-1900 (Person)
From the Collection: Rhené-Baton, 1879-1940 (Person)
From the Collection: Richter, Marga (Person)
From the Collection: Riegger, Wallingford, 1885-1961 (Person)
From the Collection: Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022 (Person)
From the Collection: Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 (Person)
From the Collection: Sandresky, Margaret Vardell (Person)
From the Collection: Satie, Erik, 1866-1925 (Person)
From the Collection: Sauer, Emil von, 1862-1942 (Person)
From the Collection: Sauguet, Henri, 1901-1989 (Person)
From the Collection: Sax, Adolphe, 1814-1894 (Person)
From the Collection: Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 (Person)
From the Collection: Schrade, Leo, 1903-1964 (Person)
From the Collection: Schuman, William, 1910-1992 (Person)
From the Collection: Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896 (Person)
From the Collection: Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985 (Person)
From the Collection: Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 (Person)
From the Collection: Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 (Person)
From the Collection: Sierra, Roberto (Person)
From the Collection: Smith, Mary Hunting, 1922-2010 (Person)
From the Collection: Snorri Sigfús Birgisson, 1954- (Person)
From the Collection: Society for the Promotion of New Music (Organization)
From the Collection: Solti, Georg, 1912-1997 (Person)
From the Collection: Sorg-Rose, Margarete, 1960- (Person)
From the Collection: Spohr, Louis, 1784-1859 (Person)
From the Collection: Spontini, Gaspare, 1774-1851 (Person)
From the Collection: Stenhammar, Wilhelm, 1871-1927 (Person)
From the Collection: Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942 (Person)
From the Collection: Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007 (Person)
From the Collection: Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 (Person)
From the Collection: Strauss, Alice (Person)
From the Collection: Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 (Person)
From the Collection: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 (Person)
From the Collection: Sutherland, Donald, 1939- (Person)
From the Collection: Szell, George, 1897-1970 (Person)
From the Collection: Tan, Dun, 1957- (Person)
From the Collection: Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 (Person)
From the Collection: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 (Person)
From the Collection: Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998 (Person)
From the Collection: Tommasini, Vincenzo, 1878-1950 (Person)
From the Collection: Tower, Joan, 1938- (Person)
From the Collection: Trolle-Steenstrup, H. (Herluf) (Person)
From the Collection: Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965 (Person)
From the Collection: Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 (Person)
From the Collection: Wagner, Cosima, 1837-1930 (Person)
From the Collection: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 (Person)
From the Collection: Wagner, Winifred (Person)
From the Collection: Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962 (Person)
From the Collection: Wang, An-Ming (Person)
From the Collection: Ward, Robert, 1917-2013 (Person)
From the Collection: Waring, Fred, 1900-1984 (Person)
From the Collection: Webern, Anton, 1883-1945 (Person)
From the Collection: Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950 (Person)
From the Collection: Weinberger, Jaromír, 1896-1967 (Person)
From the Collection: Weingartner, Felix, 1863-1942 (Person)
From the Collection: Weiss, Adolph, 1891-1971 (Person)
From the Collection: Yannatos, James (Person)
From the Collection: Zaimont, Judith Lang, 1945- (Person)
From the Collection: Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1871-1942 (Person)
From the Collection: Zimmermann, Bernd Alois, 1918-1970 (Person)
From the Collection: Adams, John, 1947- (Person)
From the Collection: Lablache, Luigi, 1794-1858 (Person)
From the Collection: Reich, Steve, 1936- (Person)
From the Collection: Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 (Person)
From the Collection: Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 (Person)

Extent

From the Collection: 11.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Note

29 letters to Louis and Stella Simon and 1 to Ernest Chapman

Physical Storage Information

Box: 1, Folder: .B54 (Mixed Materials)

Library Details

Part of the Music Library Repository

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Contact:
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Marc Blitzstein letters, 1927 - 1944

Scope and Contents

Dates

Creator

Extent

Language of Materials

Additional Description

Note

Physical Storage Information

Library Details

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