Composers

Original music manuscripts; scores, and personal letters and journals of Arthur Willner.

The Edna Ehrlich Collection: Personal Life, Professional Work and Music Interests is an extension of the Edna Ehrlich Papers (AR 25639). This collection includes material on the beginnings of the relationship of Edna and Otto Ehrlich prior to their marriage, on Edna Ehrlich’s friendships and personal life, and on her work as a promoter of Asian music in New York. It also includes a small amount of papers related to her professional work.

The Edna Ehrlich Papers, dating from 1898-2014, document the personal and professional life of Edna Ehrlich, an economist with the Federal Reserve of New York for 43 years. The collection focuses on her work as an economist expert in Asian markets and her relationships with her husband Otto Ehrlich, an economy professor, and her friend Jin Xiang, a Chinese composer. The collection contains personal documents and images relating to the Gottesman and Ehrlich families; Otto Ehrlich's interests in art and musical history; photographs, slides, albums, and other vacation documents from Ehrlich's travels; interviews, writings, and correspondence from her work as a consultant and economist at the Federal Reserve; administrative and concert planning documents for the East-West Music Exchange Association; and Jin Xiang's compositions, concert programs and reviews, and correspondence relating to royalties, organizations, other musicians, and professional opportunities.

Typescripts and correspondence by Schönberg; 2 scrapbooks, one containing concert programs and reviews of Schönberg's works (1921-1948), the other containing articles by Schönberg, mostly on music and culture (1920-1938).

This collection contains about 80 programs for Joseph Joachim's concerts, as well as a handful of his letters, an autograph album kept by his student Martha Drews, and a couple of photographs of Joachim.

Music manuscripts and publications of Weiner's works: cantatas, an opera, piano music, a ballet, orchestral scores, choral works, art songs, liturgical music. Musical settings by Weiner for poetry by Yiddish authors: A. Almi, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Peretz Hirschbein, H. Leivick, Itzik Manger, Kadia Molodowsky, I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Yehoash. Musical works by other composers including Joseph Achron, Ilya Aisberg, Simeon Bellison, Abraham Moshe Bernstein, Riva Boyarskaya, Israel Brandmann, Paul Dessau, Joel Engel, Jasha Fisherman (Jacques Fischermann), Mikhail Gnessin, A. Gumennik, S. Gurowitsch, Simon Katz, Zinovii Kompaneetz, Reuven Kosakoff, Alexander Krein, M. Milner, Aron M. Rothmuller, S. Sagranitschny, Lazare Saminsky, Ephraim Skliar, Maximilian Steinberg, Alexander Zhitomirsky. Program and reviews of concerts of the Workmen's Circle Chorus.

Photographs, programs, sheet music, memorabilia, family tree, scrapbook, audio recordings

Papers, photos, scores

This collection contains music by composer Richard Fuchs. It also includes some clippings and other music.

The bulk of the collection consists of music scores with Robert Alexander’s compositions. Also included are a short biographical abstract and a list of his compositions in the collection’s first folder.

The Robison Family Fapers reflect various activities of Adolf C. and Ann Green Robison in civic organizations, Jewish communal life, Jewish national and international affairs, and individually in the arts. The collection contains information on the origins of the United Nations; and on aid to Israel before, during, and after the War of Independence. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, musical scores, and play scripts.

The collection consists of music manuscripts of Bugatch's original works, arrangements of works by other composers. Included are arrangements of works by Ossias Abrass, Joel Engel, Samuel Naumbourg, David Nowakowski, Josef (Yosele) Rosenblatt, Zeidel Rovner. Manuscripts by other composers. Included are liturgical works, Yiddish and Hebrew folk and art songs.

The collection holds autographs, correspondence, music scores, official documents and photographs pertaining to the pianist and composer Selma Berliner.