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Title: Rudolf Friml Collection of musical compositions
Date (inclusive): 1905-1968
Collection number: PASC-M 20
Creator:
Friml, Rudolf, 1879-1972.
Extent:
200 boxes (100 linear ft.)
Abstract: The collection consists of scores and sketches, and ozalid reproductions of music for the stage and other compositions by
Friml, as well as many sound recordings, and personal and business papers. The collection is currently being processed. Updates
to the finding aid will be made periodically.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary 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 Rudolf Friml, 1968-1969.
Gift of the Composer, 1971 (Boxes 1-3).
The majority of the collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
[Identification of item], Rudolf Friml Collection of musical compositions (Collection Number PASC-M 20). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Charles Rudolf Friml was born on Dec. 7, 1879 in Prague, Czechoslovakia; studied composition with Antonín Dvořák and piano
with Josef Jiránek at the Prague Conservatory (1900-3); was accompanist for the violinist Jan Kubelfk on tours of Europe and
the US (1900-6); settled in the US in 1906, performing his First piano concerto with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony
Orchestra; gained a reputation for his keyboard improvisations, character pieces, lyrical salon dances, etudes, violin and
cello pieces and songs, some written under the pseudonym Roderick Freeman; wrote 30 operettas and revue scores; moved to Hollywood
in 1925, adapting his works and writing new scores for films; compositions include
The firefly (1912),
Rose Marie (1924),
The vagabond king (1925), and
The three musketeers (1928); he died on Nov. 12, 1972 in Los Angeles.
The collection consists of: scores and sketches, and ozalid reproductions of music for the stage and other compositions by
Friml; printed sheet music and scores of Friml's compositions; commercial and non-commercial sound recordings, including improvisations
by Friml at the piano; business and personal papers; and posters and ephemera relating to the composer's career.
Arranged in the following series:
- Series 1. Business papers
- Series 2. Clippings
- Series 3. Correspondence
- Series 4. Written Music
- Series 5. Photographs
- Series 6. Posters
- Series 8. Sound recordings
- Series 10. Works: The Firefly
- Series 11. Works: The Vagabond King
- Series 12. Works: Prelude to Vatican City
- Series 14. Works: L'Amour Toujours
- Series 15. Works: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra III
- Series 16. Works: Oriental Fantasy
- Series 17. Works: Lord I'm Glad
- Series 18. Works: Scotch Archer's Song
- Series 19. Works: Faster and Faster
- Series 20. Works: Spirit of America
- Series 21. Programs and Playbills
- Series 22. Miscellaneous Paper Materials (unprocessed)
- Series 23. Scripts
- Series 24. Travel
- Series 27. Works: Rose Marie
- Series 28. Works: Mt. Matterhorn
- Series 29. Works: Friml Fantasy
- Series 30. Film
- Series 31. Death and Tributes
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Friml, Rudolf, 1879-1972 --Archives.
Composers --United States --Archival resources.
Musicals.
Music --Manuscripts.