Allen Dean Palmer collection on Heinrich Marschner, 1831-1987

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Summary

Creators:
Palmer, A. Dean
Abstract:
This collection contains research material pertaining to German composer and music director Heinrich Marschner, compiled by Allen Dean Palmer during his studies at UCLA. Material includes photographs, printed sheet music, clippings, postcards, and Palmer's completed Masters thesis and PhD dissertation.
Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes and 1 document box)
Language:
Materials are in German and English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Allen Dean Palmer Collection on Heinrich Marschner (Collection PASC-M 77). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains research material pertaining to German composer and music director Heinrich Marschner, compiled by Allen Dean Palmer during his studies at UCLA. Material includes photographs, printed sheet music, clippings, postcards, and Palmer's completed Masters thesis and PhD dissertation. All scores are composed by Heinrich Marschner, unless otherwise noted.

Biographical / historical:

HEINRICH AUGUST MARSCHNER (born 16 August 1795) was a German composer who served as Kapellmeister at the Hanover court opera for thirty years. He is primarily known for his operas, though he was a romantic composer who also made important contributions to the Lied, or body of German Romantic poems set to classical music.

Though Marschner, who was born in Zittau, showed early promise as a soprano and a pianoforte player, he moved to Leipzig in 1913 with the intention of studying law. Convinced to make music his profession, he travelled in 1816 with Count Thaddaus von Amadee, to Pressburg and Vienna, where he made the acquaintance of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Settling in Pressburg, he wrote three operas, including Heinrich IV und Aubigne, which was produced in 1820. He was consequently appointed Kapellmeister of the German and Italian opera there, in 1823. He was appointed Musikdirector in 1824, but resigned and relocated to Leipzig, where he settled in 1827 as Kapellmeister of the theater. There he produced Der Vampyr (1828), a successful opera which was also given in 1829 at the Lyceum Theatre in London, running for sixty nights.

In 1831, he was appointed court Kapellmeister at Hanover. He produced Hans Heiling in 1833; this is widely considered his masterwork, and enjoyed great success. In 1836 it was performed under his own direction in Copenhagen; consequently, he was offered the post of General Musical Director in Denmark, which he declined in order to remain in Hanover. Kaiser Adolf von Nassau was produced at Dresden in 1845 under Richard Wagner's conductorship. In 1859, he was pensioned at the theater with the title of Generalmusikdirector. Marschner died on 14 December 1861, in Hanover. A monument was erected to his memory there in 1877.

ALLEN DEAN PALMER was a student of music at UCLA who wrote his Master of Arts thesis, Heinrich Marschner and his Opera, "Der Vampyr", in 1975. His PhD dissertation, Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861) and His Stage Works, was approved in 1978.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Charlotte S. Myers and Allen Dean Palmer, 1988.
Processing information:

Reprocessed in 2015 by Lori Dedeyan. 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.

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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], Allen Dean Palmer Collection on Heinrich Marschner (Collection PASC-M 77). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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