Victor Herbert autograph and photo
date: label: presentation date
content: 1982
name: label: presenter
content: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This is a photograph and autograph of Victor Herbert mounted with gray mat board and framed under glass in a silver colored frame. It was a special presentation by ASCAP to the Smithsonian Institution. There is an inscription:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) presents this photograph of Victor Herbert, the Founding Father of ASCAP, in celebration of the first complete recording of a Herbert work, "Naughty Marietta: by the Smithsonian Institution -- Hal David, President, ASCAP</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was the dominant composer for Broadway musical theater during the first two decades of the 20th century, writing music for <i>The Fortune Teller</i> (1898), <i>Babes in Toyland</i> (1903), <i>The Red Mill</i> (1906), <i>Naughty Marietta</i> (1910), <i>Sweethearts</i> (1913), and other productions. Born in Dublin, Ireland, and trained in Stuttgart, Germany, Victor Herbert came to the United States in 1886 to perform as first cellist for the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra. He later held other important positions with American bands and symphonic orchestras and began a steller career in musical composition. In 1913 Herbert took a leading role in the establishment of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the organization that protects songwriters and publishers from unlicensed performance of their creative works. Herbert became the first president of the organization.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, through Hal David
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0269.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0269
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0269.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: autograph and photo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/4 in x 21 1/4 in; 38.735 cm x 53.975 cm