Guide to the Brody/Klooster Performance Practice Collection
ca. 1930-1970

Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

Phone: (212) 998-2596
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URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Klooster, Carol Moore; Lipsky, Alexander; Brody, Elaine
Title: The Brody/Klooster Performance Practice Collection
Dates: ca. 1930-1970
Abstract: Alexander Lipsky was an influential teacher and composer, born in Poland in 1901. He was a student of Frank E. Ward and Leonid Kreutzer. His student, Carol Moore, is also represented in the collection. The collection is comprised of scores annotated by Lipsky and Moore, and show detailed fingerings and pedalings.
Quantity: 6 linear feet (5 boxes)
Call Phrase: The Brody/Klooster Performance Practice Collection
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Historical/Biographical Note:

Alexander Lipsky was an influential teacher as well as composer and arranger born in Poland in 1901. He attended Columbia University and studied composition and theory with Daniel Gregory Mason, Frank Ward and Franz Schreker. He was a student of piano under the tutelage of Leonid Kreutzer. In 1921, he was awarded the Clarence Barker Fellowship at Columbia through which he studied in Berlin from 1922-1924. Up through the 1940's, he composed concertos, songs, sonatas and pieces for piano. He also became a highly regarded teacher of music, and one of his students was Carol Moore Klooster.

Sources:

Who is Who in Music: 1941 Edition. Chicago: Lee Stern Press, 1940.

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Scope and Content Note

The Brody Klooster Performance Practice Collection is a part of the Manuscript and Archives Collection at the Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 170,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel.

The Brody Klooster Performance Practice Collection is an archive of musical scores, from the personal library of Carol Moore. The collection is comprised mostly of scores that have been annotated by Moore's teacher, Alexander Lipsky, but there is also material in series II that was annotated by Moore.

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I: Alexander Lipsky

Series I contains 3.25 boxes of musical scores and inventory notes belonging to Alexander Lipsky, which are then divided into two subseries. They are arranged alphabetically by composer.

Series I, subseries A contains 3 boxes of musical scores annotated by and/or belonging to Alexander Lispky.

Series I, subseries B contain one-quarter box of practice books and inventory notes.

Series II: Carol Moore

Series 2 contains three-quarters of a box of musical scores that were either annotated by Moore, or taken from her library. The series is divided into two subseries and arranged alphabetically by composer.

Series II, subseries A contains one-quarter box of musical scores annotated by Carol Moore.

Series II, subseries B contains half box of musical scores from Carol Moore's library.

Oversize: A flat oversize box at the end of the collection contains oversize material from Series 1 and 2.

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Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject/author heading.
The files are grouped into 2 series.
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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.

Use Restrictions

Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. For more information, contact
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu

URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm

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Access Points

Subject Names:
Brody, Elaine
Klooster, Carol Moore
Lipsky, Alexander, 1901-
Subject Topics:
Composers--United States--20th century.
Piano music
Piano music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Piano music--Teaching pieces.
Subject Places:
New York (State)--New York.
Document Types:
Sheet music
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Administrative Information

Provenance

The Brody Klooster Performance Practice Collection was acquired during 1997 through the generous contribution made by David Silverberg and the Estate of Carol Klooster Moore, as a memorial to Mr. Siverberg's late wife, Elaine Brody, an alumna and distinguished professor at NYU.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); The Brody Klooster Performance Practice Collection; MSS 46; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections , New York University Libraries.

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Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

 

Series I: Alexander Lipsky

 

Subseries A: Alexander Lipsky's annotated musical scores

Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Albeniz, "Asturias." undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 2 Bach, K.Ph.Em., solfeggio in C minor. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 3 Bach, J.S., inventions. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 4 Bach, J.S., suites, sonatas, hymns. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 5 Bach, J.S., preludes and fugues. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 6 Bach-Busoni., organ toccata in D minor, chaconne. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 7 Bartok. Bela, piano solos. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 8 Beethoven, L. Van, concertos. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 9 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op.2, no.1. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 10 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata in C minor, Op.13. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 11 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op.27, no.2. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 12 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op. 31, no.2. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 13 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op. 31, no.3. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 14 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op. 53. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 15 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op. 57. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 16 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op. 79. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 17 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata no.27, op. 90. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 18 Beethoven, L. Van, sonata op.109 & sonata op.110. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 19 Beethoven, L. Van, "Fur Elise" & inventions. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 20 Ben-Haim, P., sonatina and 5 piano pieces. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 21 Bloch, Ernest, "Poems of the Sea" & "Nirvana." undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 22 Brahms, Johannes, piano works v.1. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 23 Brahms, Johannes, piano works v.2. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 24 Brahms, Johannes, variations op. 35 v.1 & 2. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 25 Brahms, Johannes, "Gavotte" by C.W. Gluck. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 26 Brahms, Johannes, intermezzos. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 27 Brahms, Johannes, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 28 Brahms, Johannes, piano works, op.116, op.119. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 28a. Brahms, Johannes, op.58.(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 29 Brahms, Johannes, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 30 Chaminade, C., "Scaramouche" op.56. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 31 Charpentier, J., "Toccata" & "Allergro de Concert."(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 32 Chopin, Frederic, impromptus. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 33 Chopin, Frederic, complete works for the piano, bk.1. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 34 Chopin, Frederic, preludes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 35 Chopin, Frederic, complete works for the piano, bk. 12. undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
1 36 Chopin, Frederic, "Scherzi and Fantasy." undated     Barcode: 31142040611934
Box Folder Title Date
2 37 Chopin, Frederic, mazurkas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 38 Chopin, Frederic, etudes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 39 Chopin, Frederic, ballades, nocturnes, sonatas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 40 Couperin, Francois, "Les Petits Moulins a Vent." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 41 Dallapiccola, Luigi, "Sonatina Canonica." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 42 Daquin, Claude, "Le Coucou." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 43 Debussy, Claude, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 44 Debussy, Claude, preludes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 45 Debussy, Claude, "L'isle joyeuse" & "Clair de lune." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 46 De Falla, Manuel, "Ritual Fire Dance" & "La Vie Breve."(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 47 De Falla, Manuel, "Pantomime" & "Fantasia Baetica." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 48 Dohnany, Ernst V., cappriccio F minor op. 28.(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 49 Dvorak, Antonin, "Slavonic Dance no. 10." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 50 Fibich, Zdenek, "Poeme." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 51 Franck, Cesar, variations synphoniques. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 52 Gabrililowitsch, Ossip, two piano pieces, op.12. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 53 Ginastera, Alberto, rondo. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 54 Gluck, C.W., "Melodie." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 55 Grainger, Percy, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 56 Granados, Enrique, "Valses Poeticos" & "The Maiden and the Nightingale." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 57 Grieg, Edward, concerto op.16. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 58 Handel, G.F., variations in E. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 59 Haydn, Joseph, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 60 Hindemith, Paul, "1922 Suite fur Klavier."(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 61 Hofmann, Josef, op.40. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 62 Ibert, Jacques, "The Little White Donkey." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 63 Kabalevsky, Dmitri, "18 Pieces for Children." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 64 Kodaly, Zoltan, op.11. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 65 Lecuona, Ernesto, "Malaguena." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 66 Leschetizky, Th., intermezzo op.44, no. 4. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 67 Lipsky, Alexander, "Four Sketches for Piano Solo." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 68 Liszt, Franz, waltzes & etudes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 69 Miaskovsky, Nicolas, fugue. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 69a. Milhaud, Darius, "Saudades do Brazil." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 70 Mompou, Federico, "Canco i Dansa." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 70 Mozart, W.A., "Sonatas and three Fantasias for Piano." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 71 Mozart, W.A., "Twenty Sonatas for Piano." undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
2 72 Mozart, W.A., sonatas & concertos. undated     Barcode: 31142040611942
Box Folder Title Date
3 73 Paderewski, J.J., menuet in G op.14, no.1. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 74 Palmgren, Selim, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 75 Pinto, Octavio, "Memories of Childhood." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 76 Piston, Walter, "Passacaglia." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 77 Poulenc, Francis, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 78 Prokofieff, Serge, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 79a. Prokofieff, Serge, piano works.(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 80 Rachmaninoff, S., piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 81 Ravel, Maurice, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 82 Read, Gardner, "American Circle." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 79 Roussel, Albert, "Trois pieces pour Piano." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 83 Saint-Saens, Camille, "Six Etudes" & "Caprice on Air." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 84 Scarlatti, D., sonatas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 85 Scarlatti, D., sonatas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 86 Schubert, Franz, "Four Impromptus." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 87 Schubert, Franz, sonatas, impromptus. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 88 Schumann, Robert, "Carnaval" & concerto A minor op.54. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 89a. Schumann, Robert, Arabeske op.18 & Fantasy-Pieces. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 89b. Schumann, Robert, Etudes Symphoniques & "Scenes from Childhood" undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 89 Scriabin, Alexander, preludes & etudes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 90 Scriabin, Alexander, sonatas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 91 Sibelius, Jean, Three sonatinas op.67. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 92 Shchedrin, Rodion, "Humoresque." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 93 Shostakovich, Dmitri, "Three Fantastie Dances, op.5." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 94 Soler, Padre Antonio, sonatas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 95 Strauss, Richard, piano solos. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 96 Stravinsky, Igor, "The Five Fingers." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 97 Szymanowski, Karol, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 98 Telemann, Georg Phillip, clavier fantasies. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 99 Tcherepnine, Alexander, "Bagatelles op.5." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 100 Tschaikowsky, Peter, concerto No.1 in B flat minor. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 101 Viana, Frutuoso, "Corta-Jaca." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 102 Villa-Lobos, H., "Baby Family, No.2" & "The Devil's Whip." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 103 Villa-Lobos, H., "Ciclo Brasileiro" & "The Toy Wheel." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 104 Von Weber, C.M., "Perpetual Motion." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 105 Yon, Pietro A., "Gesu Bambino." undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 106 Unidentified music. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
3 107 Unidentified music. undated     Barcode: 31142040611959
 

Subseries B: Practice books and inventory notes

Box Folder Title Date
4 108 Techniques and exercises. undated
4 109 Techniques and exercises. undated
4 110 Techniques and exercises. undated
4 111 Steinway. undated
4 112 Inventory of Records. undated
4 113 Inventory of Sheet Music. undated

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Series II: Carol Moore

 

Subseries A: Carol Moore's annotated musical scores.

Box Folder Title Date
4 114 Bach, J.S., chorale from canta, No.147. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 115 Bach, J.S., vierstimmige choralgesange. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 116 Bach-Bussoni, organ choral preludes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 117 Beethoven, L.Van, sonata op.28. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 118 Brahms, Johannes, quartet No.2. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 119 Clementi, Muzio, sonata in F minor. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 120 Debussy, Claude, Deux Arabesques. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 121 Granados, Enrique, "Escenas Romanticas" & "Goyescas." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 122 Grieg, Edward, "Papillon." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 123 Liadow, Anatole, "Musical Snuff-Box." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 124 Moszkowski, Moritz, "Etincelles, op.36, no.6." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 125 Mozart, W.A., rondo in D major & rondo in A minor. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 126 Nancy's music. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 127 Prokoffieff, Serge, "Tarantella." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 128 Rachmaninoff, Sergei, vocalise op.34, no.14. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 129 Ravel, Maurice, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 130 Saint-Saens, Camille, "The Swan." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 131 Scriabine, Alexander, preludes & etudes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 132 Unidentified music. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 133 Villa-Lobos, H., "Alnitah" & "Mintika." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
 

Subseries B: Musical scores from Carol Moore's personal library

Box Folder Title Date
4 134 Bach, J.S., organ prelude G minor. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 135 Barber, Samuel, ballades & sonatas. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 136 Beethoven, L. Van, rondo op.129 & andante in F. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 137 Beethoven, L. Van, "Sonatas for Piano v.2." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 138 Clementi, Muzio, sonatina. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 139 Crawford, Thomas, "Signal Hill." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 140 Czerny, "The Art of Finger Dexterity." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 141 Debussy, Claude, "La Plus que Lente" & "Pour le Piano." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 142 Essipoff, Annette, compositions.(oversize) undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 143 Evett, Robert, second piano sonata. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 144 Gershwin, George, "Rhapsody in Blue." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 145 Grovlez, Gabriel, "Fileuse." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 146 Haydn, Joseph, fantasie in C major. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 147 Ives, Charles E., "Song Without(Good) Words." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 148 Mendelssohn, Felix, "Song Without Words" & Concerto op.25. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 149 Mozart, W.A., "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 150 Paderewski, I.J., "Caprice-Burlesque, op.3." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 151 Poulenc, Francis, "La Courte Paille." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 152 Rachmaninoff, Sergei, preludes. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 153 Rachmaninoff, Serger, piano works. undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 154 Rodgers, Richard, "To Keep My Love Alive." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 155 Saint-Saens, Camille, "Tarantella." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 156 Schubert, Franz, "Cradle Song." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 157 Schaum, John W., "Harmony Lesson v.1 & 2" undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 158 Schumann, Robert, "Complete Works for Piano Solo, v.2." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 159 Tansman, Alexandre, "Cinq Impressions." undated     Barcode: 31142040611967
4 160 Turina, Joaquin, "Coins de Seville." undated