Leonard Stein papers, 1930-2004

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Summary

Creators:
Stein, Leonard
Abstract:
The collection consists of printed scores (including scores with performance annotations, analysis, and/or composers' inscriptions), lecture notes, sound recordings, correspondence, and other papers relating to the life and work of the musicologist and pianist.
Extent:
29 Linear Feet (58 boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Leonard Stein papers (Collection PASC 270-M). UCLA Library Special Collections,Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

Manuscripts, printed scores, including scores with performance annotations, analysis, and/or composers' inscriptions, lecture notes, sound recordings, correspondence, and other papers of the musicologist and pianist.

Biographical / historical:

Leonard Stein (1916-2004) was teaching and personal assistant to Arnold Schoenberg from 1939 until Schoenberg's death in 1951. He was also a pianist specializing in contemporary music and Director of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute from 1975 until 1991.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Estate of Leonard Stein Trust, 2005.
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.

Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff.

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series:

  • 1. Printed scores
  • 2. Recordings
  • 3. Papers
  • 4. Correspondence
  • 5. Books.

Physical / technical requirements:

CONTAINS AUDIO MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials. Audio materials are not currently available for access, unless otherwise noted in a Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed audio materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

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.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Leonard Stein papers (Collection PASC 270-M). UCLA Library Special Collections,Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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