Belmont Music Publishers (Pacific Palisades, CA) coll. (B3)

Belmont Music Publishers (Pacific Palisades)

Collection, 1900-1997: 7 folders (196 leaves, 2 booklets, 1 score, 334 photographs), 2 cassettes, 1 videorecording

Belmont Music Publishers – established 1965, is the Schoenberg-family company in Los Angeles which publishes the musical works of Arnold Schoenberg. Belmont (French) = Beautiful mountain = Schönberg (German).

Contents

finding aid (1 leaf)
article (1 item: 1993), Raksin's "Life with Charlie Chaplin"
book (1 item: 1993) by Mathias Hansen, Arnold Schönberg: ein Konzept der Moderne
clippings (11 items: 1993-1994)
correspondence (29 items: 1926-1994) with Edward Clark, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Tillett, et al.
fliers (advertising G. Schirmer's Schoenberg publications) (2 items)
handout from AMS meeting April 1995 (19 leaves)
invitation (1 item: 1995)
manuscript score of Schoenberg's Adagio for 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 violoncelli, double bass, and harp
photographs (334 items) of Schoenberg
programs (30 items: 1993-1997)
published scores (17 items: 1937-1997)
sketches for Schoenberg's String quartet concerto
sound recordings (2 items: 1994) of Bruckner's Symphony no. 7 arr. under Schoenberg's supervision videorecording, "Entartete Musik" (1993)

Correspondents

ASI (R. Wayne Shoaf (1 item: 1993) Martin Bach (1 item: 1937?) Belmont Music Publishers (Elizabeth Soladay (1 item: 1993)) Genossenschaft Deutscher Tonsetzer (1 item: 1930) Timothy L. Jackson (2 items: 1994) Adolf Jolles (1 item: 1926) Arnold Schoenberg (15 items: 1926-1948) Artur Schoenberg (1 item: 1937) Gertrud Schoenberg (2 items: 1929) unidentified (1 item: 1939)

Music cited

Clippings: opp. 4, 16, Debussy arr., Strauss arr. (Webern)
Manuscripts: Adagio, String quartet concerto
Programs: opp. 4, 5, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 32, 38, 42, 46, Gurre-Lieder, Moses und Aron, Jakobsleiter, Brahms arr., Bruckner arr., Debussy arr., Mahler arr., Strauss arr. (Webern)
Published scores: opp. 19, 31 (two-piano), 39 (Organ Reduction), 41, 43a, 45, 50a, 3 Klavierstücke (1894), Cabaret Songs, Gurre-Lieder, Gurrelieder fanfare, 6 Klavierstücke (4-hands), Weihnachtsmusik, Brahms' arr.