Richard Fuchs Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains music by composer Richard Fuchs. It also includes a clipping and other music.
The collection includes a full score and individual chorus parts (SATB, three copies each) for his four-song cycle "Vom jüdischen Schicksal," composed in 1933. The work was based on three poems by Karl Wolfskehl and one by the medieval poet Süsskind von Trimberg, and won an award from the Jüdische Kulturbund. A clipping from CV Zeitung, May 27 1937, reproduced the correspondence between Richard Fuchs and Karl Wolfskehl. - Also found in this collection are Fuchs’ scores for "Heitere Musik für acht Blasinstrumente," "Symphony in C Minor," and "A Song for Simeon," as well as a score for an excerpt from Max Ettinger's song cycle "Der Völker Liebesgarten." All the scores are copies.
Dates
- 1920s-1938
Creator
- Fuchs, Richard, 1887-1947 (Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is in German.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to researchers.
Access Information
Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.
Biographical Note
Richard Fuchs (1887, Karlsruhe, Germany – 1947, Wellington, New Zealand) was a composer and architect. After a stint in the Dachau concentration camp in 1938, Fuchs was able to emigrate to New Zealand in 1939.
Extent
1 Boxes
Abstract
This collection contains music by composer Richard Fuchs. It also includes some clippings and other music.
Processing Information
This material was removed from the Walther Hirschberg (AR 3840) collection.
- Title
- Guide to the Richard Fuchs (1887-1947) Collection circa 1920s-1938 AR 25552
- Author
- Processed by Kevin Schlottmann
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- as part of the Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative, made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation
Revision Statements
- August 2015:: dao links added by Emily Andresini.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
