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Finding Aid for the Gordon Aronhime Collection, 1793-1964 (Bulk 1925-1964)


MS-0297

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, August 3, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Gordon Aronhime Collection

Date/Date Range :   1793-1964 (Bulk 1925-1964)

Extent: 0.7 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection contains correspondence, musical handbills and programs in American and German and a very quaint European Autograph Album belonging to the Hodgson Family containing famous European composers, politicians and writers.

Call number: MS-0297

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Gift presented by Gordon Aronhime 1963-1966.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Gordon Aronhime Collection, MS-0297. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of seven folders divided into five series: Correspondence; Autographs and Calling Cards; Music Handbills and Programs; Score; and Autograph Album and Broadside.


Biography / History

"Gordon Aronhime (1911-1983) was a historian, writer, and photographer who resided in Bristol, Virginia." The Library of Virginia holds his research papers "into the early history of Southwest Virginia (that) focused on the upper Holston-Clinch River area during the period 1770-1795." http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/bio/aronhime/aboutAR.htm


Collection Scope and Content Note

Among the items that Gordon Aronhime collected are correspondence, autographs and calling cards and music programs in American and German. A bound book of autographs is part of the collection. An envelope addressed to Mr. Robert Moulineux Hodgson in Cowley is the claimed collector of the autographs. The initials EH is on the "title" page. There are over 64 autographs and other items in the beautifully bound volume. Autographs include "famous composers as well as such other personages as the Duke of Wellington, Sir Walter Scott -." Some autographs are: Gaetano Donizetti, G.P.R. James, Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, Arthur Wellesley, Julie Dorus-Gras and other sociétaires.

Subject Terms

  • Autograph albums -- Europe.
  • Autographs.
  • Broadsides -- Germany.
  • Handbills -- 1950-1960.
  • Wall Newspapers.
Contents List
   

Series I: Correspondence, 1941-1964
Folder   1     Item   1    
From: Geraldine Farrar, 1941 March
Folder   1     Item   2    
From: Lotte Lehman, 1958 July-1958 August
Folder   1     Item   3    
From: May Sarton, 1960 December
Folder   1     Item   4    
From: Geraldine Farrar, 1961 March
Folder   1     Item   5    
From: Geraldine Farrar, 1963 March
Folder   1     Item   6    
To: Joseph Wood Krutch, 1963 June
Folder   1     Item   7    
From: Joseph Wood Krutch, 1963 July
Folder   1     Item   8    
From: Maureen Forrester, 1964 March
   

Series II: Autographs and Calling Cards, 1927-1930
Folder   2     Item   1    
From: Adelaide Riston, undated
Folder   2     Item   2    
From: Alessandro Bonci, undated
Folder   2     Item   3    
Song Recital: Amelita Galli Curci, 1927 November
Folder   2     Item   4    
Piano Recital: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, 1927 December
Folder   2     Item   5    
Academy of Music- Philadelphia: Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1930 March
   

Series III: Music Handbills and Programs, 1925-1954
   

Sub-Series A: American,

Folder   3     Item   1    
Philadelphia Orchestra Academy of Music, 1929-1930
Folder   3     Item   2    
The Academy of Music Philadelphia- Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, 1930 February 11
Folder   3     Item   3    
The Academy of Music Philadelphia- Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, 1930 April 15
   

Sub-Series B: German, 1954
Folder   5     Item   1    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); Lorenzo da Ponte; Don Giovanni, 1954 May 29
Folder   5     Item   2    
Grosser Musikvereinssal (Vienna's Golden Hall); Vienna Philharmonic; Franz Shubert Celebration (2 Copies), 1954 May 30
Folder   5     Item   3    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Richard Wagner, Karl Bohm, Rudolf Hartman, Robert Kautsky, 1954 May 30
Folder   5     Item   4    
Gesellschaft der Musikfreude in Wien (Friends Society of Music in Vienna); Joseph Haydn Festival, "Die Schöpfung" (The Creation)(2 Copies), 1954 May 30
Folder   5     Item   5    
Gesellschaft der Musikfreude in Wien (Friends Society of Music in Vienna); Joseph Haydn Festival; "Kammermusik-Abend (Evening of Chamber Music)" (2 Copies), 1954 June 1
Folder   5     Item   6    
Staatsoper in der Volksoper; Victor Léon and LeoStein; Johann Strauss, 1954 June 2
Folder   5     Item   7    
Gesellschaft der Musikfreude in Wien (Friends Society of Music in Vienna); Joseph Haydn Festival; Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, 1954 June 2-1954 June 3

Folder   5     Item   8    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); Giuseppe Verdi; "Don Carlos" , 1954 June 4
Folder   5     Item   9    
Grosser Musikvereinssal (Vienna's Golden Hall); Vienna Philharmonic; Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms, undated
Folder   5     Item   10    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Julius Caesar," Nicola Haym; George Friedrich Händel, Karl Böhm, Oscar Fritz Schuh, Casper Neher, 1954 June 6-1954 June 8
Folder   5     Item   11    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Der Rosenkavalier" , 1954 June 6
Folder   5     Item   12    
Gesellschaft der Musikfreude in Wien (Friends Society of Music in Vienna); Joseph Haydn; "Die Jahreszeiten" , 1954 June 6
Folder   5     Item   13    
Johann Strauss Festkonzert (2 Copies), 1954 June 7
Folder   5     Item   14    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Die Fledermaus" , 1954 June 10
Folder   5     Item   15    
Gesellschaft der Musikfreude in Wien (Friends Society of Music in Vienna); Joseph Haydn Festival; Solistenkonzert, 1954 June 10
Folder   5     Item   16    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Daphne" , 1954 June 11
Folder   5     Item   17    
Burgtheater, "Jedermann" , 1954 June 12
Folder   5     Item   18    
Sender Rot-Weiss-Rot Wien der Wiener Sypmphoniker, 1954 June 12
Folder   5     Item   19    
Redoutensaalder Hofburg; "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" , 1954 13 June
Folder   5     Item   20    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Eine Nacht in Venedig" , 1954 June 16
Folder   5     Item   21    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Boris Godunow" (2 copies), 1954 June 16
Folder   5     Item   22    
Internationales Musik Fest, 1954 May 30-1954 June 19
Folder   5     Item   23    
"Elecktra" by Richard Strauss, 1954 June 19
Folder   5     Item   24    
Staatsoper an der Wien (State Opera House in Vienna); "Fidelio" (2 Copies), 1954 June 20
Folder   5     Item   25    
Wiener Festwochen Program, 1954 May 29-1954 June 6
   

Series IV: Score, undated
Folder   6     Item   1    
Eulenburgs kleine Partitur -- Ausgabe No. 411; "Beethoven," Op. 125, Symphonie No. 9; Autographed, undated
   

Series V: Autograph Album and Broadside, 1793-1954
Folder   7     Item   1    
Autograph Album 1793 - originally belonging to Robert Moulineux Hodgson, 1793
Folder   8     Item   1    
Broadside: "Wochenspielplan der Wiener Bühnen," 1954 June 12-1954 June 20