Inventory of the Sigurd Frederiksen collection, 1926-1957
Inventory of the Sigurd Frederiksen Collection, 1926-1957
Collection number: ARCHIVES FREDERIKSEN 1
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- Date Completed:
- ca. 1977
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
Part I: Opera.
Tintoretto, chamber opera in one act, for speakers, chorus, recorder, pardessus, viola d*amore 1-2, and gamba.
Scope and Content Note
Place and date: Los Angeles, 1956.
First performance: July 14, 1956 by The Pardo Players of Ancient Instruments.
a. Score and parts (master copy on onion skin paper).
b. Full score.
c. Piano score.
d. Complete set of parts.
Part II: Ballet.
An American Pattern, ballet for orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Copyright date: 1941. No place.
Ink, manuscript.
a. Full score.
b. Set of 29 parts.
The Shepherd of Shiraz, ballet for orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Story by Alice Pike Barney.
Ink, manuscript.
First performance: Hollywood Bowl, September 4, 1928 by the Adolf Tandler Little Symphony.
a. Conductor's score (arr. for piano).
b. Set of 22 orchestra parts.
Part III: Symphony.
Symphony no. 1 on a Motif of Spring, for orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Dedicated to Edna and Jack Levy.
First performance: February 9, 1948 by the Glendale Symphony Orchestra.
a. Full score.
b. Set of 80 orchestra parts.
Part IV: Concertos.
Concerto for Flute with Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Ink, manuscript.
Copyright date: 1934.No place.
Remarks: There is another copy of the full score in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia.
a. Full score.
b. Piano score.
c. Solo flute part.
d. Set of 41 orchestra parts.
Concerto for piano with orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Orchestra. Another performance at the Hollywood Bowl, soloist:
Claire Mellonino on Thursday, July 25, date unknown.
Remarks: There is a program and two newspaper reviews of different of the concerto pasted to the front cover of the score.
a. Full score (the last few pages are lacking).
b. Solo piano part with reduction of the orchestra part for piano II.
c. set of 47 orchestra parts.
Concerto for viola with orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Place: 3348 Scarboro Street, Los Angeles, 65. No date.
a. Full orchestra score.
b. Piano-viola score.
c. Solo viola part.
d. There are no parts.
Violin Concerto.
Scope and Content Note
Place and date: Los Angeles, 1949 and 1950.
a. Full score.
b. Piano-violin score.
c. Solo violin part (2 copies).
d. Set of 23 orchestra parts.
Concerto for violoncello with orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Copyright 1936.
First performance: Glendale Symphony Orchestra, June 9, 1947, Antoinette Frederiksen soloist.
a. Full score.
b. Piano-cello solo part (2 copies).
c. Set of 42 parts.
Concerto for violin and violoncello with orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Dedicated to Edny Levy and Antoinette Frederiksen.
First performance: Glendale Community Orchestra, November 22, 1943.
a. Full score.
b. Score for piano, violin, and cello (3 copies).
c. Solo violin and cello parts.
d. Set of 40 orchestra parts.
Part V: Other Music for Orchestra.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Suite for Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Ink, manuscript.
Copyright: 1930.
First performance: Adolf Tandler's Little Symphony, Hollywood Bowl, Tuesday, August 30, 1927.
a. Full score.
b. Set of 51 orchestra parts.
"Harvest," Bucolic for Chamber Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
a. Full score (master copy on onion skin paper), 20 leaves.
Legend, for Bassoon with Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Copyright 1936.
First performed on the Standard Symphony Hour and later performed by Howard Hanson and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra. Dates unknown.
a. Full score, 47 pp.
b. Score for piano and bassoon (2 copies).
c. Solo bassoon part.
d. No orchestra parts.
"Light and Shadows," Variations for Strings.
Scope and Content Note
Performed by the Glendale Symphony Orchestra, June 7, 1955, but there is no indication that this was the first performance.
a. Score (master copy on onion skin paper).
b. Set of 5 parts (vln 1-2, vla, cello, and bass). Master copy on onion skin paper.
c. Set of 12 string parts copied on regular music paper.
Norroeno Suite for Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
Ink, manuscript.
First performance: Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles by the Adolf Tandler Little Symphony, March 6, 1926.
a. Full score.
b. No orchestra parts.
The Saga of Leif Ericksen, and Epic Poem for Symphony Orchestra and Spoken Voice.
Scope and Content Note
Ink, manuscript.
Text: Edward Lynn.
Dated: 1934.
First performance: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, December 12, 1934.
a. Full score, 58 pp.
b. Piano score.
c. Narrator's script.
d. Set of 63 orchestra parts.
"Sail on, Sail your Luck," Overture for Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
a. Set of 13 wind and brass parts.
b. No string parts or score.
"When the Leaves are Falling," Two poems for English Horn with Strings and Percussion.
Scope and Content Note
Ink, manuscript.
Dated: Los Angeles, September, 1941.
First performance: W.P.A. Southern California Orchestra, Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles, September 10, 1941.
a. Full score, 15 pp.
b. Solo English horn part.
c. Set of 27 orchestra parts.
Part VI: Chamber Music.
Concerto Campagnard, for solo gamba, pardessus, viole d'amore 1-2, and piano.
Scope and Content Note
No place or date.
The master copies bear the inscription "Accurate Photocopy and Blueprint Co., 6207 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood."
a. Piano-solo gamba score (master copy on onion skin paper), 21 pp.
b. Solo gamba part (master copy on onion skin paper), 6 pp.
c. Set of five parts.
Period: Queen Bess, Variations on Lady Greensleeves, for four viols (pardessus, viole d'amore 1-2, and gamba).
Scope and Content Note
First performance: Balboa Park, San Diego by The Pardo Players of Ancient Instruments, March 27, 1950.
a. Full score, 5 leaves.
b. No parts.
String Quartet (Opus 3), in G major.
Scope and Content Note
Date: 1917.
a. Full score, 26 pp. (the last 19 mm. are lacking).
b. Set of four parts with duplicate copies of vln 1 and cello.
"A Wreath for Linnaeus," for viol quartet (pardessus, viole d'amore 1-2, and gamba).
Scope and Content Note
Dated: Los Angeles, 1953.
a. Full score (two copies).
b. Vln 2 part (incomplete).
Part VII: Music for solo instruments.
Divertissement, for the piano.
Scope and Content Note
Ink, manuscript.
Dated: Los Angeles, 1957.
a. Score (master copy on onion skin paper). 17 pp.
b. Score (copy).
c. Partial score.
Soliloquy, for solo viola.
Scope and Content Note
Dated: 1954. No place.
a. Score, 2 pp.
Part VIII: Songs for voice and piano.
"The Lamb," for voice and piano.
Scope and Content Note
Text: William Blake, from Songs of Innocence, 1789.
Copyright date: 1932.
a. Score.
"The Prince of Botany," for voice and piano.
Scope and Content Note
No place or date.
The master copy bears the inscription "Accurate Photocopy and Blueprint Co., 6207 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood."
a. Score (master copy on onion skin paper), 4 pp.
"Twin-Flower (Njavisenna)," for voice and piano. (This is not the same piece as item 22, movement 2).
Scope and Content Note
No place or date.
The master copy bears the inscription "Accurate Photocopy and Blueprint Co., 6207 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood."
a. Score (master copy on onion skin paper). The last page is lacking.
b. Score (2 complete copies).
Part IX: Concert programs and newspaper reviews of performances.
Concerto for piano and orchestra. Reviews.
Concerto for violoncello with orchestra. Programs and reviews.
Concerto for violin and violoncello with orchestra. Program and review.
Divertisement for Four Horns, Strings, and Harp. Program dated Sunday April 23, 1933. The music is not in the Berkeley collection.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Suite for Orchestra. Programs and reviews.
Eddaic Fragments, Trio for violin, cello, and piano. Program dated April 18, 1932. The music is not in the Berkeley collection.
The Frescoes of the Five Ages (Symphonic Variations), for orchestra. Reviews & programs dated April 14, 1928 and March 18, 1934. The music is not in the Berkeley collection, but a full score (56 pp.) is in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, Free Library of Philadelphia.
Legend, for Bassoon with Orchestra. Program and review.
Light and Shadows, Variations for Strings. Program.
Noel, Fantasy for two harps, with orchestra. Reviews and programs dated December 14, 1931 and August 9, 1932. The music is not in the Berkeley collection, but the score (49 pp.) is in the Fleisher Collection.
Norroeno Suite for Orchestra. Programs and reviews.
Passacaglia della Vida, for four viols. Program dated April 17, 1955.
Scope and Content Note
Period: Queen Bess, Variations on Lady Greensleeves. Two programs.
Sail on, Sail your luck, Overture for Orchestra. Programs and reviews.
Rhapsody for Oboe with Orchestra. The music is not in the Berkeley collection.
Scope and Content Note
The Saga of Leif Ericksen, and Epic Poem for Symphony Orchestra and Spoken Voice. Programs and reviews.
Rococo, Suite for Quartet of Ancient Instruments with Orchestra.
Scope and Content Note
The Shepherd of Shiraz, ballet for orchestra. Program and review.
Symphony no. 1 on a Motif of Spring. Programs and review.
When the Leaves are Falling, Two Poems for English horn with strings and Percussion. Program and review.
A Wreath for Linnaeus, for viol quartet. Program and review.
Part X: Miscellaneous.
One (1) folder of biographical items, 15 leaves.
One (1) folder of unidentified performance parts, 16 leaves.