Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Amter, I. (Israel), b. 1881.
	Title:	Winona Piano Score
	Dates:	1912-
	Abstract:	Israel Amter (1881-1954) was an official in the Communist Party, USA who had studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory, where in 1912 he composed a never-performed opera, Winona, which concerns the love between a U.S. army officer and a Native American woman, Winona.
	Quantity:	.5 linear feet (150 pages)
	Call Phrase:	Tamiment 232

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Historical/Biographical Note

Israel Amter, founding member of the Communist Party, USA and a leading functionary into the 1940s, was born on March 26, 1881, in Denver to Jewish immigrant parents. He joined the Socialist Party in 1901, and in 1903 moved to Germany where he remained until 1914, editing the German Export Review, participating in the Social Democratic Party, and studying music at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he composed his never-performed opera Winona (1912), which concerns the love between a U.S. army officer and a Native American woman, Winona.

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Scope and Content Note

Contains the piano score for the opera Winona, and a photocopy of the libretto (25 pages).

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Arrangement
	Pages are arranged numerically.
		Container list

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Related Material at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Amter, I. (Israel), Autobiographical Typescript (Tamiment 079).

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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 for research without restrictions, however, patrons must use photocopy.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2630
Fax: (212) 995-4225
E-mail: gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu

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Access Points
	Subject Topics:
		Indians of North America--Drama.
	Document Types:
		Librettos.
		Operas.
		Piano scores.

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Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of Donald Amter, August 2003.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); The Guide to I. (Israel) Amter’s Winona. Piano score. ; Tamiment 232; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.

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Container List

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

Container list
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	Libretto	1912
1	2	Piano Score	1912

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