Kurt Adler Materials

The Kurt Adler Materials hold several documents pertaining primarily to the professional career of Kurt Adler. There are also some documents concerning his emigration and naturalization in the United States.

Folder 1 contains several clippings, correspondence and official documents. Clippings include newspaper articles of Kurt Adler as a conductor. Additionally there are numerous clippings of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, including information sheets, programs, and biographical information about Kurt Adler, such as an artist's questionnaire. Furthermore there are photocopies of official documents concerning his immigration to the United States from the National Archives of the United States. Finally the folder contains a photograph of Kurt Adler and his certificate of death.

The content of folders two and three belong to the homepage of the Neuhaus publisher. There is one print-out of the homepage with information about Kurt Adler and besides this a print-out of an e-book – "Kurt Adler" – by Vaclav Urban. The e-book deals with Kurt Adler's life from his time in Bohemia, Berlin and Prague to his employment at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The book is divided into three main chapters: The first chapter is the attempt of a reconstruction of Adler's life. The second chapter deals with his publications, and the last chapter concentrates on his time at the Metropolitan Opera. The e-book comprises 140 pages and is written in Czech. The last folder holds correspondence, which documents the registration of the property of Kurt Adler's parents, Siegfried and Olga Adler, in 1938 and the restitution of their lost property. There is a bunch of photocopies of these documents from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv.