Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Wayne Peterson papers
- Dates:
- 1982-1996,, bulk bulk 1982-1986
- Creators:
- Peterson, Wayne, 1927-
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- Number of containers: 1 Linear feet: .4
- Language:
- Collection materials are in English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Wayne Peterson Papers, ARCHIVES PETERSON 1, Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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Wayne Peterson (b. 1927, Albert Lea, MN living in San Francisco, CA since 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, as well as a pianist and educator.
Peterson earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota. He did advanced study on a Fulbright Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London, England.
In 1960, he joined the faculty of San Francisco State University, reaching the rank of Professor of Music, from which he is now retired. In 1998 San Francisco State University, established the Wayne Peterson Prize in Music Composition. Peterson was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark, an orchestral work commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and conducted by David Zinman.[1]
Peterson's other honors include a Composer's Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1986) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989-90). In 1990 he was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.
[biography from Wikipedia.org]
- Arrangement:
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Arranged to the container level.
- Accruals:
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No additions are expected.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2007
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid generated by Finding Aid author(s) via EAD XPress; markup validated by Music Library staff using OAC validation tools; Date of source: October 2013
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Music Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Music Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Music Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Wayne Peterson Papers, ARCHIVES PETERSON 1, Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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Jean Gray Hargrove Music LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- (510) 642-2623