Oskar Morawetz fonds
Published: 1906
Language: eng
Notes: Composer and music teacher born in Czechoslovakia, in 1917, and naturalized Canadian in 1946. Toronto, Ont.

Biographical material; personal and professional correspondence; sketches, manuscripts and copies of 100 compositions; documents pertaining to compositions "From the Diary of Anne Frank" and "Memorial to Martin Luther King"; concert programs, clippings and posters; annotated books and scores, some of them with dedications by Ravel, Kleiber and Helen Berg; part of the fonds of singer Ruzena Herlinger, comprising: professional and personal correspondence and biographical documents. Also includes 57 photographs, chiefly of O. Morawetz, members of his family, and Ruzena Herlinger; 2 audio tape cassettes (recordings of From the Diary of anne Frank).

Restrictions: part of the correspondence is confidential.

Finding aid: provisional summary description of part of the fonds.

File code: MUS 76.