Description
Collection consists of the correspondence, music-related ephemera, musical scores, and recordings of émigré musician and former
USC School of Music faculty member, Ernest Kanitz (1894-1978).
Background
Ernst Kanitz was born April 9, 1894, in Vienna. He studied law at the University of Vienna (J.D. 1918), but continuously devoted
himself to the systematic study of piano theory and composition with Richard Heuberger (1912-1914) and Franz Schreker (1914-1920).
Early successes as a composer (principally the premiere of the oratorio "Das Hohelied" in 1921) aided his musical career,
which also led to teaching. Beginning in 1922, he was a Professor of Theory and Analysis at the New Vienna Conservatory and
had numerous private students in composition. In 1930 Kanitz founded the Vienna Women's Chorus, with which he brought new
choral music to the public in Vienna, Paris, Brno, and Budapest. The chorus remained in existence until Kanitz's emigration
to the United States in 1938.
Extent
61.125 Linear Feet
60 boxes
Restrictions
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Availability
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