Modern music archives
Contributors: Lederman, Minna; Berg, Alban, 1885-1935; Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956; Breton, André, 1896-1966; Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921; Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990; Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965; Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995; Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983; Heinsich, Richard; Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973; Piston, Walter, 1894-1976; Rosenfeld, Paul, 1890-1946; Shapero, Harold, 1920-; Smirnoff, Boris, 1893?-1976; Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
Published: 1910
Language: eng
Number of pages: 810
Subjects: Correspondence; Portraits; League of Composers (U.S.); League of Composers' review
Other titles: League of Composers' review.
Description: The contents of the archives consist of materials documenting the closing of the magazine; photographs; artwork (originals and reproductions); stage and costume designs; concert and festival programs; supplemental writings and essays by Minna Lederman Daniel; scrapbooks (also on microfilm); and press clippings. Correspondence includes originals of letters sent to Modern music by George Antheil, Alban Berg, Theodore Chanler, Aaron Copland, Henry and Sidney Cowell, David Ewen, Frederick Jacobi, Walter Piston, Paul Rosenfeld, Lazare Saminsky, Arnold Schönberg, Harold Shapero, and Virgil Thomson. Among the roster of contributors represented in this collection are Alban Berg, Bertolt Brecht, André Breton, Aaron Copland, Henry and Sidney Cowell, Edwin Denby, Lincoln Kirstein, Pablo Picasso, Walter Piston, Paul Rosenfeld, Harold Shapero, and Virgil Thomson. Noteworthy original works of art in this collection include self-portraits by Darius Milhaud and  Arnold Schönberg, sketches of George Antheil by Boris Smirnoff and Louis Gruenberg by Enrico Caruso, and a lithograph portrait of Paul Hindemith by Richard Heinsich.
Notes: Modern music archives, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Minna Lederman Daniel; 1975, 1980, and 1984.

The Minna Lederman Daniel Collection at the Library of Congress Music Division contains correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, clippings, programs, periodicals, and photographs pertaining to the life and work of Minna Lederman Daniel.

Modern music, the quarterly journal of the League of Composers, was published in New York from 1924 to 1946 and was edited by Minna Lederman Daniel. Initially the title was the League of Composers' review. In 1925 the name was changed to Modern music. It is one of the most distinguished collections of criticism and scholarship concerning early twentieth-century musical arts.

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