Felix Wolfes additional papers
Contributors: Klemperer, Otto, 1885-1973; Pfitzner, Hans, 1869-1949
Published: 1880
Language: ger
Subjects: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.); New England Conservatory of Music
Description: Includes manuscript musical compositions, photographs, photograph albums, correspondence, programs, family papers, printed material, and an oil portrait of Wolfes.

Manuscript material relates to Wolfes’s many lieder compositions and the vocal scores of operas he prepared, including Arabella and Eugene Onegin. Correspondents include his teacher Hans Pfitzner and his colleague Otto Klemperer.
Notes: See also AM 11 for other Felix Wolfes papers held by the Houghton Library.

Felix Wolfes was a German-born composer, conductor, pianist, and educator. Born to Jewish parents in Hannover, his career in Germany included studies under Max Reger, Robert Teichmüller, Richard Strauss, and Hans Pfitzner. He emigrated to France and then to the United States where he worked first as assistant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera in New York (N.Y.), then teaching at the New England Conservatory for two decades.

In German and English.

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