Finding Aid for the Alexis Kall Papers LSC.0601
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Online finding aid last updated 21 August 2017.
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Title: Alexis Kall papers
Creator:
Kall, Alexis
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0601
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1917-1940
Abstract: Alexis Kall (b.1878) taught at the Imperial University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The collection consists of Kall's correspondence,
papers, notebooks, and memorabilia. There is also a typescript manuscript on Stravinsky by Kall.
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on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Portions of collection unprocessed. Some material in the collection are unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jay Leyda and Dr. Sergei Bertensson.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alexis Kall Papers (Collection 601). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Kall taught at the Imperial University in St. Petersburg, Russia; he was a friend and one-time secretary of Igor Stravinsky.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, papers, notebooks, and memorabilia of Dr. Alexis Kall. Includes typescript manuscript
on Stravinsky by Kall.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts for publication
Musicologists -- Russia -- St. Petersburg -- Archives.
College teachers -- Russia -- St. Petersburg -- Archives.
Kall, Alexis, 1878- --Archives.
box 1, folder 1
Correspondence, English
c.1930-1950
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 3
Correspondence, Dagmar Godowsky
c.1940s
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 4
Correspondence, Serge Prokofieff
c. 1921
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 2
Correspondence, Russian
c.1930-1950
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 5
Correspondence, Mario Sylva
n.d.
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 6
Manuscripts, English
c.1930-1950
Language of Material: English.
box 1, folder 7
Manuscripts, Russian
1940s
Language of Material: English.
box 2, folder 1
Photographs, Identified
n.d.
Language of Material: English.
box 2, folder 2
Photographs, Unidentified
n.d.
Language of Material: English.
box 3, folder 1
Clippings, English
c.1940s
Language of Material: English.
box 3, folder 2-3
Clippings, Russian
c.1940s
Language of Material: English.
box 3, folder 4
Ephemera
1920s-1940s
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Includes naturalization papers and passports.
box 4
Pocket Diaries and Postcards
1920s-1940s
Language of Material: English.
box 5, folder 1
Igor Stravinsky, Clippings
1940s
Language of Material: English.
box 5, folder 2
Igor Stravinsky, Correspondence
1930s-1940s
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Correspondence includes items in English, French and Russian; letters to and from Kall and/or Stravinsky; Stravinsky to Pierre
Monteux; Stravinsky on the occasion of the death of Maurice Ravel.
box 5, folder 3
Igor Stravinsky, Ephemera
1940s
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Includes an essay by Stan Barnett, "The Neglect of Tchaikovsky's Genius" and 'Ballet of the Winds' by Alice Leal Pollock.
box 5, folder 4
Igor Stravinsky, List of Works and Overview of Career
c.1940
Language of Material: English.
box 5, folder 5
Igor Stravinsky, Materials Relating to the Norton Lectures (Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry), Harvard University
1939-1940
Language of Material: English.
box 5, folder 6
Igor Stravinsky, Photographs
c.1940s
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Content
Includes cartoon of Stravinsky and photograph of Stravinsky and Edward G. Robinson.
box 5, folder 7
Igor Stravinsky, Programs of Performances of music written and conducted by Stravinsky
1939-1940
Language of Material: English.
box 5, file 8
Igor Stravinsky, Ralph Berton essay celebrating Stravinsky's achievements
1935
Language of Material: English.
