Overview
Scores and recordings of Fromm Music Foundation-supported compositions, with a few recordings, manuscripts, and print items associated with Paul Fromm.
Dates
- 1943-2019
Creator
- Fromm Music Foundation (Sponsor, Organization)
Extent
14.25 linear feet (66 boxes)3.5 Gigabytes (5 CDs)
This collection of manuscript and print scores represents work by composers receiving commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation. Scores dating from before the Foundation's founding are presumed to have been in Paul Fromm's personal collection, as were miscellaneous manuscript and printed items. Recordings of some compositions are present as phonograph records, audiotapes, and CDs; those mentioned in the compositions series have been moved to Series III: Recordings in other formats.
These are preliminary lists imported from the original database, unauthoritative, incomplete, and intended only for reference use.
Biographical / Historical
Paul Fromm (1906-1987) was a Jewish Chicago wine merchant and financial backer of performing arts. He was an early supporter of contemporary classical music in his native Germany. Forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1938, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago where he co-founded wine import companies. In 1952, when his businesses were secure, he founded the Fromm Music Foundation. The Foundation awarded grants to young composers, the choices made by members of the Foundation staff.
Arrangement
Arranged in four series:
- I. Scores.
- II. Phonograph records.
- III. Recordings in other formats.
- IV. Papers.
While the bulk of the collection is arranged alphabetically by composer, researchers should use keyword searching to be sure to find all items for a given name or title.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Special equipment or surrogate required; consult Houghton staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
*92M-37, *92M-38. Fromm Music Foundation, Department of Music, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; received: 1991 and ongoing. *90M-52, transferred from Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, 1991.
Separated Materials
Born-digital material has been separated: Storage305BD
General note
Includes audiovisual and/or digital media: CDs; phonograph records; and audiotapes.
Processing Information
Processed by: Elizabeth A. Falsey, Melanie Wisner, and Andrew Whitacre.
Creator
- Fromm Music Foundation (Sponsor, Organization)
- Title
- Fromm Music Foundation, sponsor. Fromm Music Foundation scores and recordings (MS Mus 280): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00175
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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