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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Allen Dean Palmer collection on Heinrich Marschner
Creator:
Palmer, A. Dean
Identifier/Call Number: PASC-M.0077
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(2 flat boxes and 1 document box)
Date (inclusive): 1831-1987
Abstract: This collection contains research material pertaining to German composer and music director Heinrich Marschner, compiled by
Allen Dean Palmer during his studies at UCLA. Material includes photographs, printed sheet music, clippings, postcards, and
Palmer's completed Masters thesis and PhD dissertation.
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 German and English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Charlotte S. Myers and Allen Dean Palmer, 1988.
[Identification of item], Allen Dean Palmer Collection on Heinrich Marschner (Collection PASC-M 77). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Reprocessed in 2015 by Lori Dedeyan.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9922213293606533
HEINRICH AUGUST MARSCHNER (born 16 August 1795) was a German composer who served as Kapellmeister at the Hanover court opera
for thirty years. He is primarily known for his operas, though he was a romantic composer who also made important contributions
to the Lied, or body of German Romantic poems set to classical music.
Though Marschner, who was born in Zittau, showed early promise as a soprano and a pianoforte player, he moved to Leipzig in
1913 with the intention of studying law. Convinced to make music his profession, he travelled in 1816 with Count Thaddaus
von Amadee, to Pressburg and Vienna, where he made the acquaintance of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Settling in Pressburg, he wrote
three operas, including Heinrich IV und Aubigne, which was produced in 1820. He was consequently appointed Kapellmeister of
the German and Italian opera there, in 1823. He was appointed Musikdirector in 1824, but resigned and relocated to Leipzig,
where he settled in 1827 as Kapellmeister of the theater. There he produced Der Vampyr (1828), a successful opera which was
also given in 1829 at the Lyceum Theatre in London, running for sixty nights.
In 1831, he was appointed court Kapellmeister at Hanover. He produced Hans Heiling in 1833; this is widely considered his
masterwork, and enjoyed great success. In 1836 it was performed under his own direction in Copenhagen; consequently, he was
offered the post of General Musical Director in Denmark, which he declined in order to remain in Hanover. Kaiser Adolf von
Nassau was produced at Dresden in 1845 under Richard Wagner's conductorship. In 1859, he was pensioned at the theater with
the title of Generalmusikdirector. Marschner died on 14 December 1861, in Hanover. A monument was erected to his memory there
in 1877.
ALLEN DEAN PALMER was a student of music at UCLA who wrote his Master of Arts thesis, Heinrich Marschner and his Opera, "Der
Vampyr", in 1975. His PhD dissertation, Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861) and His Stage Works, was approved in 1978.
This collection contains research material pertaining to German composer and music director Heinrich Marschner, compiled by
Allen Dean Palmer during his studies at UCLA. Material includes photographs, printed sheet music, clippings, postcards, and
Palmer's completed Masters thesis and PhD dissertation. All scores are composed by Heinrich Marschner, unless otherwise noted.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Scores.
Composers -- Portraits.
Composers -- Germany.
Marschner, Heinrich