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  • Restrictions on Access
  • Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
  • Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
  • Acquisition Information
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • Biographical Note
  • Organization and Arrangement
  • Scope and Content
  • Online Related Digital Materials

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Ernst Toch papers
    Creator: Toch, Ernst 1887-1964
    Identifier/Call Number: PASC-M.0001
    Physical Description: 44 linear feet (88 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1835-1988
    Abstract: The Collection consists of materials relating to the Austrian-American composer, Ernst Toch. Included are music manuscripts and scores, books of his personal library, manuscripts, biographical material, correspondence, articles, essays, speeches, lectures, programs, clippings, photographs, sound recordings, financial records, and memorabilia. Also included are manuscripts and published works of other composers, as well as Lilly Toch's letters and lectures.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English and German.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

    Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

    COLLECTION CONTAINS DIGITAL MATERIALS: Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. To access digital materials you must notify the reference desk in advance of your visit.
    COLLECTION CONTAINS AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials in this collection will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Acquisition Information

    Lilly Toch; gift; 1966-1970.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942338723606533 

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Ernst Toch Papers (Collection PASC-M 1). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
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    Biographical Note

    Ernst Toch was born on Dec. 7, 1887 in Vienna; taught himself piano in his grandmother's pawnshop; learned musical notation from a local violinist, and copied Mozart's string quartets for practice; began to compose chamber music, and at age 17 had a quartet performed; in 1909 he won the prestigious Mozart Prize and a scholarship to study at the Frankfurt Conservatory, where he studied piano with Willy Rehberg and composition with Iwan Knorr; won the Mendelssohn Prize in 1910 and the Austrian State Prize four times in succession; in 1913 he was appointed teacher of composition at the Mannheim Musikhochschule; married Lilly Zwack in 1916; earned Dr. phil. degree in 1921; taught piano and composition in Berlin from 1929-33, leaving at the onset of the Nazi regime for Paris, London, and finally the US, where he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York (1934-36); taught at the Univ. of Southern CA (1937-48), afterward giving private instruction; lived in Vienna and Switzerland from 1950-58, then spent the remainder of his life in LA; won the Pulitzer and Huntington-Hartford Prizes for his Third Symphony (1956), was elected to the American National Institute of Arts and Letters (1956), received honorary citations from the German and Austrian governments, and won a Grammy Award (1960); publications include Melodielehre (1923) and The shaping forces in music (1948); his compositions encompass all genres and include Fuge aus der Geographie (1930), Seven symphonies, 13 string quartets, several chamber operas, and music for films; he died on Oct. 1, 1964 in LA.

    Organization and Arrangement

    The collection is organized into the following series:
    • Series 1. Photographic Material. 5 boxes
    • Series 2. Sound Recordings
    • Series 3. Correspondence
    • Series 4. Clippings and Programs
    • Series 5. Miscellaneous Printed Material
    • Series 6. Articles, Essays, Speeches, Lectures
    • Series 7. Music Manuscripts
    • Series 8. Toch Published Works
    • Series 9. Toch's Library: Books and Journals
    • Series 10. Toch's Library: Scores
    • Series 11. Interviews
    • Series 12. Realia and Miscellanous
    • Series 13. Lawrence Weschler Collection
    • Series 14. Toni Weschler Collection
    • Series 15. Recent Acquisitions

    Scope and Content

    The collection consists of materials relating to the Austrian-American composer, Ernst Toch. Includes music manuscripts and scores, books of his personal library, manuscripts, biographical material, correspondence, articles, essays, speeches, lectures, programs, clippings, photographs, sound records, financial records, and memorabilia. Also included are manuscripts and published works of other composers, and Lilly Toch's letters and lectures.

    Online Related Digital Materials

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Music -- Manuscripts.
    Music -- Scores.
    Sound recordings.
    Composers -- Archives.
    Toch, Ernst, 1887-1964--Archives.
    Toch, Lilly, 1892-1972.