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University of Toronto Music Library De Kresz, Geza
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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians : articles

File consists of research notes, draft articles, and correspondence relating to articles that Carl Morey wrote for Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Morey wrote articles for Geza de Kresz, Clarence Lucas, Canada, Toronto, Derek Holman, W(esley) O(ctavius) Forsyth, and Adolph Kodolfsky. File also includes Morey's contract with the publisher, Macmillan International Ltd.

Violin sheet music previously owned and annotated by Geza De Kresz

File contains scores and parts previously owned by Geza De Kresz, the first violinist of the Hart House String Quartet, with his annotations. The scores and parts included in this file are listed below:

Scores:

  1. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich. Serenade melancolique: morceau pour le violon avec accompagnement d'orchestre ou de piano : op. 26. Paris: Mackar & Noël, [188-?]. [score].
  2. Gaviniés, Pierre, and Jenõ Hubay. 24 matinées: gyakoratok hegedűre = Etüden für Violine. Budapest: Rozsnyai Károly Kiadása, [ca. 1920]. [score].
  3. Small binder’s album of scores:
    • Campagnoli, Bartolomeo, and Mario Corti. Romanza. Milano: A. & G. Carisch, 1921.
    • Corti, Mario, and Luigi Borghi. Rondò. Milano: Carisch, 1926.
    • Chiabrano, Carlo, and Mario Corti. La caccia. Milano: Carisch, 1927.
  4. Paganini, Nicolò, neue Ausgabe von Fritz Kreisler. Le streghe: op. 8, theme with variations = Danse des sorcières. Mainz: Eulenburg, 1905. [score].
  5. Small binder’s album (scores):
    • Wieniawski, Henri. Scherzo-tarentelle, op. 16: [pour] violon et piano. Leipzig: F. Kistner, [1907?]
    • Wieniawski, Henryk. Le carnaval russe: op. 11. Leipzig: Fr. Kistner, n.d.

Violin parts:

  1. Small binder’s album of violin parts:
    • Campagnoli, Bartolomeo, and Mario Corti. Romanza. Milano: A. & G. Carisch, 1921.
    • Corti, Mario, and Luigi Borghi. Rondò. Milano: Carisch, 1926.
    • Chiabrano, Carlo, and Mario Corti. La caccia. Milano: Carisch, 1927.
  2. Vivaldi, Antonio, arr. Tivadar Nachèz. Concerto: sol majeur. Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1921. [violin part].
  3. Paganini, Nicolò, neue Ausgabe von Fritz Kreisler. Le streghe: op. 8, theme with variations = Danse des sorcières. Mainz: Eulenburg, 1905. [violin part].
  4. Small binder’s album of violin parts:
    • Cernicchiaro, Vincenzo. Le streghe di Nicolo Paganini: Variationen : op. 7. Leipzig: Schuberth, [190-?].
    • Paganini, Nicolò, Fritz Kreisler, and Gioacchino Rossini. Non più mesta: op. 12, theme with variations. Mainz: Eulenburg, 1905.
    • Paganini, Nicolò, and Leopold Auer. Caprice. Berlin: Bote & Bock, [19--?].

Hart House String Quartet collection

  • OTUFM 48
  • Collection
  • 1924-1946

Collection consists of 10 scrapbooks created by the Hart House String Quartet and their business manager, Milton Blackstone, which contain programs and newspaper clippings of reviews and press releases for their concerts. Two volumes (Volume 5, 1929-1931; and, Volume 7, 1932-1934) are missing from the collection. The collection also contains two scrapbooks for the Canadian Concert Association, during the time that Milton Blackstone was the director (1933-1935 and 1936), and a small collection of annotated scores and parts for violin and piano, previously owned and annotated by Geza De Kresz.

Hart House String Quartet

Correspondence

Collection of autographed letters, signed (ALS) and typed letters, signed (TLS) from: Marion Bauer ; William Berwald ; Alberto Bimboni (2) ; Hanson Booth (2) ; Gena Branscombe ; Eddy Brown ; Renee Chemet ; Benjamin de Casseres ; Geza and Norah de Kresz (3) ; William H. Goschen ; Henry Hadley (2) ; Philip James (2) ; Alberto Jonas ; Christiaan Kriens ; Luigi von Kunits ; Jane Rogers ; Lazare Saminsky ; Vladimir Shavitch ; Ed Stringham ; Oliver Strunk ; Deems Taylor ; R. W. Woiceske ; Mabel Wood-Hill.

Photographs of Canadian musicians

File contains photographs of Canadian musicians, many of which are signed, and most of which are not dated: John Beckwith (photo by Robert Lansdale); S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté with string quartet including Peggie Sampson and Victor Feldbrill; Herman Geiger-Torel; Irene Jessner; Greta Kraus; Sir Ernest MacMillan (2 photographs); Lois Marshall (2 photographs); Oskar Morawetz; Charles Peaker; Redferne Hollinshead; Hart House String Quartet (left to right, Milton Blackstone, Geza de Kresz, Boris Hambourg, Harry Adaskin; dedicated "To Lou Taube, 1937").