Composers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Claude Debussy to André Caplet, 16 November 1909
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0188/1
Scope and Contents
Letter sent by Claude Debussy to André Caplet on the 16th of November 1909. Debussy and Caplet were friends and collaborators; the latter orchastrated some of the former's works. In this letters, it appears that Caplet had been sick and Debussy was asking for news.Text of the letter:"16 Novembre 1909Cher André Caplet,En me téléphonant des choses artistiques dénuées de tout intérêt, Jacques Durant m’apprend que vous avez été gravement...
Dates:
16 November 1909
Photograph of Zoltán Kodály, 1960
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0188/2
Scope and Contents
Photograph depicting Hungarian composer and educationalist Zoltán Kodály in 1960, shortly before his death.
Dates:
1960
Photographs of Frederick Delius and Percy Grainger, 1927
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0188/3
Scope and Contents
The photographs are mounted together on a cardboard frame, and are captioned 'Delius at Grez-sur-Loing, Gordon Bryan, 1927'. One photograph shows Frederick Delius sitting in a chair in his garden, with one of his German nurse reading to him; the second photograph shows a young man in the same garden who could be Percy Grainger (Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who was a staunch admirer of Delius); and the third is just a overall view of the garden.
Dates:
1927