Artur Rodzinski collection
Contributors: Rodzinski, Halina
Published: 1868
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5000
Subjects: Correspondence; New York Philharmonic; Conductors (Music); Cleveland Orchestra; Teatr Wielki w Warszawie; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Teatro comunale di Firenze
Description: The Artur Rodzinski Collection focuses on Rodzinski's professional work as a conductor and his personal life in the United States, Europe and Latin America. The collection covers Rodzinski's performances (live, radio and sound recordings), schedules, and biographical information. The materials primarily consist of correspondence, annotated music, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, legal documents, programs and advertisements. Other items include: photographs, notes, an address book, announcements, bills, brochures, catalogs and schedules.  A portion of the collection comes from Rodzinski's wife, Halina, including items relating to her book, personal correspondence and articles published after the conductor's death.
Notes: Printed music that was not annotated was removed from the collection and cataloged separately in the Music Division's general collections.

Open to research.

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Artur Rodzinski Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.

Gift, Richard Rodzinski, January 4, 1999.

transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.

Artur Rodzinski was born in Spalato, Dalmatia (now Croatia), in 1892. He studied music in Lwów, Poland before taking a law degree in Vienna. While in Austria, Rodzinski studied composition with Joseph Marx and Franz Schreker, conducting with Franz Schalk, and piano with Emil Sauer, a Liszt pupil. Rodzinski started as a choral conductor and then made his conducting debut with Ernani at the Lwów Opera in 1920. Leopold Stokowski invited Rodzinski to visit Philadelphia in 1925. He was a sought-after guest conductor during the 1930s, appearing with the N.Y. Philharmonic in 1934 and 1937, notably with Rose Pauly in one of the most celebrated performances of Strauss' Elektra. Rodzinski led the N.Y. Philharmonic from 1942 to 1947, and the following year he directed the Chicago Symphony. In later years, Rodzinski made guest appearances in Latin America and in Europe. He settled  in Italy where he continued to conduct opera to great success. In Florence in 1953, he gave the first  performance outside of Russia of Prokofiev's War and Peace. Rodzinski died in Boston in 1958.

Primarily in English with a significant amount in Polish. Other languages include Italian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Japanese.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009012