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Descriptive Summary Alexander Steinert Papers, 1888-1977 [Bulk dates: 1909-1977] Steinert, Alexander, 1900-1982 JPB 06-62 2.5 linear feet; 11 boxes The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Music Division.

New York, New York

Alexander Lang Steinert (1900-1982) was a composer, conductor, and pianist who worked in television, film, and radio, as well as concert settings. The Alexander Steinert Papers consists primarily of the composer’s collection of published scores, the majority of these arranged for piano and four hands. The collection also contains scrapbooks as well as contracts and correspondence that detail some of the highlights of Steinert’s professional career. Subjects Personal Names Steinert, Alexander Organizations {organization/corporate name entry} Subjects {subject entry} Places Document Types {genreform entry} Occupations {occupation entry} Titles {title entry} Administration Information Source

The Alexander Steinert Papers were donated to the Music Division in 1979 by Alexander Steinert.

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Alexander Steinert Papers, JPB 06-62. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Biography

Alexander Lang Steinert (occasionally designated, Alexander Steinert, Jr.) was a composer, conductor, and pianist who worked in television, film, and radio, as well as concert settings. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on 21 September, 1900, Steinert came from a musical family. Steinert’s grandfather Morris Steinert, who emigrated from Bavaria, was the founder of M. Steinert & Sons, New England's preeminent piano dealer and the region’s exclusive Steinway representative, and his father, Alexander Steinert, became the Treasurer and General Manager of the company. While the younger Steinert’s brothers, Russell, Robert and Alan, joined the family firm, Alexander, Jr. studied music at Harvard with Charles Martin Loeffler and in 1922 graduated magna cum laude. In 1923 Steinert went on to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Andre Gedalge, Vincent d’Indy, and Charles Koechlin. Not only were these among the great musical minds in Paris at the advent of the 20th century, but it is notable that the latter two were exemplars of rival concert societies, the Societe Nationale (SN) and the Societe Musicale Independante (SMI) respectively. As such the young Steinert was among those in the fray of the evolving modern French music scene and this had a profound influence as would become evident in his own compositions. Steinert’s impressionistic tone poem, Southern Night, inspired by the French countryside, won him the American Prix de Rome, from the American Academy in May of 1927. The award consisted of a Frederic A. Juilliard fellowship for three years, with residence and a studio at the academy in Rome, and an annual stipend of $2000. Meanwhile, Steinert’s Southern Night had premiered with the Boston Symphony under the baton of Serge Koussevitzky in 1926, and was performed by the Rochester Symphony in 1928 under Howard Hanson. In June of 1929 Steinert directed the debut, in Rome, of his Two Poems for Soprano & Orchestra, based on the writings of Shelley, and his Leggenda Sinfonica was performed at Augusteo in Rome the following year, 1930. As Steinert’s compositions continued to appear in concert programs both domestically and abroad, he returned to the United States in the early thirties, or shortly after his fellowship in Rome. In 1935 he performed his own Concerto Sinfonico with the Boston Symphony under Koussevitzky; he performed the same piece again in 1939 at the Hollywood Bowl. In December of 1935 he conducted Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in New York and toured with the production from January through March 1936. On 8 September, 1937, Steinert conducted the Gershwin Memorial Concert at the Hollywood Bowl with the original cast and Lily Pons. In February and March of 1938 Steinert conducted Porgy and Bess on the coast directing its first performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco. From this time on Steinert began to spend more time on the west coast extending his career as a composer and conductor into Hollywood. In 1941 he arranged and conducted the music for Disney’s production of Bambi, and throughout the forties he continued to score films. He was also credited as an actor in a few films appearing as a conductor in Too Young to Kiss (1951), Because You're Mine (1952), and others. In 1945 Steinert received an invitation from Leopold Stokowski, Musical Director of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony, to compose a piece for performance and broadcast, and in August of that year Steinert’s Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra was premiered featuring soloist, Kalman Bloch. The forties through the sixties found Steinert as composer and conductor for numerous radio productions for CBS, NBS, and ABC. In the later fifties and into the sixties Steinert added television credits to his body of work composing and conducting original music for productions such as The Deadly Depths and Tarawa on CBS. From 1961 to 1963 his radio and television music was recorded and published by Boosey & Hawkes. Alexander Lang Steinert died in August of 1982.

Scope and Content Note

The Alexander Steinert Papers consist primarily of the composer’s collection of published scores, the majority of these arranged for piano and four hands. The scores represent prominent Late Romantic composers, especially from France and Russia, along with a few Classical pieces and Operatic overtures by Wagner and Strauss. A few of Steinert’s own compositions are included as well. There is much information about Steinert’s professional career represented in scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings with reviews of Steinert’s works and reports on his enterprise. A small selection of correspondence and contracts details a few professional associations. There are also notebooks in which Steinert had begun to organize a presentation of the highlights of his career. There is little information of a personal nature included in these materials but some information can be gathered from the scrapbooks where some of the newspaper clippings include a note regarding Steinert’s family.

Organization

Series I: Professional papers, 1920-1977Series II: Published scores, 1881?-1963Series III: Scrapbooks, 1909-1977

Series Descriptions/Container List Series I: Professional papers, 1920 - 1977

This series consists of correspondence and contracts that span Steinert’s career, and various notebooks that Steinert used to collect and organize information regarding details and highlights of his career. There are also notes for changes and corrections to be made to various scores he was working on and notebooks to catalog his personal library of recordings and printed music. The correspondence is comprised almost exclusively of letters addressed to Alexander Steinert, including letters from Eugene Ormandy, Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and letters from various affiliations and professional associations. There are just two letters sent by Steinert, these are addressed to his legal counsel in 1951 regarding claims against ASCAP. The contracts folder contains various agreements between Steinert as an independent contractor providing services to various associations principally as a composer, arranger, or conductor. These contracts involve organizations such as Houghton Mifflin, Doubleday, RCA, and CBS. There is also a request from CBS to acquire footage belonging to Steinert, of Gershwin at Fire Island, in Hollywood, and scenes from the rehearsals of the first performance of Porgy and Bess.

Chronological

11 Correspondence, 1920-1977

Comprised almost exclusively of letters addressed to Alexander Steinert, including letters from Eugene Ormandy, Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and letters from various affiliations and professional associations. There are two letters from Steinert, these are addressed to his legal counsel in 1951 regarding claims against ASCAP.

12 Contracts, 1922-1962

Contains various agreements between Alexander Steinert as an independent contractor providing services to various associations principally as a composer, arranger, or conductor.

Notebooks 13 Autobiographical notes #1

Notes and drafts, handwritten and typed, including chronologies summarizing and highlighting Steinert's professional career.

14 Autobiographical notes #2

Stenographer's notepad with notes, presumably in Steinert's hand, summarizing his professional career.

15 Autobiographical notes #3

Small, brown notepad with notes, presumably in Steinert's hand, summarizing his professional career.

16 Autobiographical notes #4

Loose pages with notes, presumably in Steinert's hand, summarizing, particularly, his work in television, film, and radio. Also a list of music donated to New York Public Library with contact information at Lincoln Center Music Library.

17 Boosey & Hawkes Records

Handwritten catalog of Steinert's television and radio compositions recorded by Boosey & Hawkes, 1962-1978.

18 Changes & corrections

Handwritten notes on scraps of paper for changes and corrections to be made in scores.

19 Musical library

7 x 4 inch notebook with alphebetical dividers, binding removed. Contains an alphabetical list of printed music held by Steinert.

110 Order of sketches

3 x 5 1/2 inch notebook, binding removed, cataloging musical sketches.

111 Tape library

7 x 4 inch notebook with alphebetical dividers, binding removed. Contains an alphabetical list of recorded musical titles with numbers apparently indicating the particualr tape on which a title could be found.

Series II: Published scores, 1888 - 1963

Series II represents the bulk of the material in the collection and principally consists of published scores that belonged to Steinert; many of these are autographed. The scores represent the work of prominent composers and composers with whom Steinert studied personally, including Charles Martin Loeffler and Vincent d’Indy, as well as composers, such as Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Florent Schmitt, representative of both the Paris Conservatoire and the broader community of modern music in Paris in the early 20th century. There are also a number of scores by Russian composers including Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Liapunov, and Glazunov, as well as major Classical and Romantic composers from Mozart to Brahms, and major opera composers including Wagner and Strauss. The majority of the scores have been orchestrated for piano and four hands; the instrumentation for each piece is indicated in the scope note. Most of the scores are printed in French or German, sometimes paired with Russian. There are also a few of Steinert’s own compositions and two song books from The Hasty Pudding Club, a social group and theater club at Harvard, of which Steinert was a member. Steinert and other members composed the content for the club’s annual musical production and the musical numbers were collected and bound. Many of the books are fragile.

Alphabetical by composer

Balakirev, Milii Alekseevich, 1837-1910 21 Ouverture pour Orchestre sur trois themes Russes [Overture for Orchestra on three Russian themes], Undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in Russian and French. 21 p.

22 Russia, Poeme symphonique, 1907

Fragile cover.

Reduction for piano and four hands by Sergei Liapunov. Printed in Russian, German, French, and English. 33 p.

23 Thamar, Poeme symphonique, Undated

This piece is arranged for 8 hands (rather than four). Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and 8 hands. Printed in Russian and French. 49 p.

Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'yevich, 1833-1887 24 Eine Steppenskizze aus Mittel-Asien fur Orchester [In the steps of Central Asia], undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Reduction for piano and four hands. Printed in Russian, German, and French. 17 p.

25 Petite Suite pour Orchestre, undated

Cover missing, title page intact. Fragile pages.

Reduction for piano and four hands by G. Sandre. Printed in French. 33 p.

26 Premiere Symphonie (Mi b majeur) pour Orchestre [First Symphony, Eb Major], 1921

Reduction for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 67 p.

27 Le Prince Igor - Danses, No. 8 & 17 from Ouverture, Danses, et Marche pour grand orchestre tirees de l'opera, 1889

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

Reduction for piano and four hands by N. Sokolow. Printed in Russian and French. 47 p.

28 Le Prince Igor - Marche from Ouverture, Danses, et Marche pour grand orchestre tirees de l'opera, 1889

Fragile.

Reduction for piano and four hands by N. Sokolow. Printed in Russian and French. 17 p.

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 29 Akademische Festouverture, Op. 80, [Academic Celebration Overture], 1881(?)

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German and English. 27 p.

210 Variationen uber Thema von Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b, [Variations on a theme by Joseph Haydn], undated

Arrangement for two pianos (clavier), four hands, by R. Keller. Printed in German. 27 p.

Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, 1895-1968 211 Louisiana, 1940

Song for low voice scored for voice and piano based on a poem by Walt Whitman. Text in English. With a personal note to Steinert from the composer on the cover. 7 p.

212 Processional Song (in praise of Saint Ephesius), 1940

Traditional Sardinian theme by Gabriele D'Annunzio harmonized and arranged for Chorus of mixed voices with soprano solo by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Text in English and Sardinian. English words by Marshall Kernochan. Piano part included for rehearsal only. With a personal note to Steinert from the arranger on the cover. 8 p.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 213 En Blanc et Noir, 1915

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Three pieces composed for two pianos, four hands. Printed in French. 39 p.

214 Images, pour Orchestre, No. 2, Iberia, 1910

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

The second of the "Images" for orchestra transcribed for piano and four hands by Andre Caplet. Printed in French. 41 p.

215 La Mer, I-III, 1905

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

Three pieces for orchestra reduced for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 57 p.

216 Nocturnes, No. 1, Nuages, 1923

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Gustave Samazeuilr. Printed in French. 7 p.

217 Nocturnes, No. 2, Fetes, 1923

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Gustave Samazeuilr. Printed in French. 20 p.

218 Nocturnes, No. 3, Sirenes, 1923

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Gustave Samazeuilr. Printed in French. 17 p.

219 Premiere Quatuor, Op. 10, 1904

String quartet reduced for piano and four hands by A. Benfeld. Printed in French. 53 p.

31 Delage, Maurice, Sept Hai-Kais, 1924

Seven songs scored for voice and piano. Text in French. With a personal note to Steinert from the composer on the title page. 15 p.

Dohnanyi, Erno, (Dohnanyi, Ernst von) 1877-1960 32 Quartett (A Dur) [String quartet in A Major], Op. 7,, undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by J. Brandts Buys. Printed in German. 51 p.

33 Quintett (C Moll) [Piano quintet in c minor], Op. 1, undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by J. Brandts Buys. Printed in German. 55 p.

Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935 34 L'Apprenti Sorcier, Scherzo, d'apres une ballade de Goethe, undated

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Leon Roques. Printed in French. 37 p.

35 La Peri, Poeme Danse, 1912

Broken binding. Fragile cover.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Leon Roques. Printed in French. 55 p.

Dvorak, Antonin, 1841-1904 36 Bagatellen, Op. 47

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 27 p.

37 Quartett (D moll), Op. 34,, Quartet in d minor] {undated

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by F. Brissler and R. Nielau. Printed in German. 35 p.

38 Symphonie No. [9] (E moll),Aus der neuen Welt [Symphony in e minor, from the new world], 1894

Fragile cover.

The cover reads, "Symphonie No. 5," but in fact the score represents Op. 95, Symphony No. 9, the "New World Symphony." Arranged for piano and two hands. Printed in German. 71 p.

39 Faure, Gabriel, 1845-1924, Masques et bergamasques, suite d'Orchestre, Op. 112, 1919

Transcription for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 34 p.

310 Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich, 1865-1936. Stenka Razine, Poeme symphonique our Grand Orchestre, Op. 13, 1888

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Reduction for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in Russian and French. 37 p.

Goldmark, Carl, 1830-1915 311 Ländliche Hochzeit, Symphonie in 5 Satzen, Op. 26, undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 77 p.

312 Sakuntala, Ouverture, Op. 13, Undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French. 33 p.

The Hasty Pudding Club 313 It's Only Natural, 1922

Book of musical numbers from the annual production by The Hasty Pudding Club with songs by Alexander Steinert, Jr. including: "Opening Chorus," "The Histrionic Blues," "Pantomime," "Gavotte," "Furlana," and "Simple Little Words of Love."

314 Westward Ho!, 1921

Book of musical numbers from the annual production by The Hasty Pudding Club with songs by A. L. Steinert including: "Opening Chorus," "You and I and the Sea," "Concerning Me," "Deep Sea Blues," "Mutineer's Dance," "Desert Isle," "All of the Ladies have a Failing for Me," "Voodoo How do you Do?," "Voodoo Dance," "Serenade," "Eleanor," "The Prettiest Flower in the Garden."

315 Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921, Konigskinder, ein marchen in drei akten von Ernst Rosmer, 1896

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Act III arranged for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 13 p.

Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 316 Deuxieme Symphonie en Si b, Op. 57, [2nd Sym in Bb], 1904

Fragile cover and pages.

Reduced for piano and four hands by Marcel Labey. Printed in French. 67 p.

317 Istar, Variations symphonique, Op. 42, 1909

Reduced for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 27 p.

41 Lanner, Joseph, 1801-1843, Sammlung der beliebtesten Walzer [Collection of the most popular Waltzes], undated

Arranged for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 46 p.

42 Leybach, J. (Joseph), 1817-1891, Fantasie Brillante sur des motifs de l'Opera Norma (de Bellini), Op. 65, Undated

Arranged for piano and four hands by H. Cramer. Printed in French. 19 p.

43 Liapunov, Sergei, 1859-1924 (Liapounow, Serge) , Symphonie an Si mineur (H Moll), Op. 12, [Symphony #1 in B minor], undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Reduced for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in Russian and French. 89 p.

Loeffler, Charles Martin 44 Quatre Melodies, Op. 10, No. 2 - Adieu pour Jamais, 1903

Score for voice and piano. Text in French. 7 p.

45 Quatre Melodies, Op. 10, No. 3 - Les soirs d'Automne, 1903

Score for voice and piano. Text in French. 7 p.

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 46 Le Boeuf sur le Toit, ou, the nothing doing bar, Farce imaginée et reglée par Jean Cocteau, 1920

Reduction for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 56 p.

47 La Creation du Monde, Op. 81, [The Creation of the World], Ballet de Blaise Cendrars, Musique de Darius Milhaud, 1923

Reduction for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 28 p.

48 Protee Drame satyrique en deux Actes de Paul Claudel, Musique de Scene de Darius Milhaud, [Op. 17], 1922

Reduction for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 110 p.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 49 Don Juan, Ouverture, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 11 p.

410 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (L'Enlevement au Serail), Ouverture [The Abduction from the Seraglio], undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 9 p.

411 Les Noces de Figaro, Ouverture [The Marriage of Figaro], undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 11 p.

412 VI Lieder, 1922

Score for voice and piano. Text in German and French. 15 p.

413 Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968, (Ildebrando Da Parma), La Danza dei Sette Candelabri, da la musica per La Nave [The Dance of the Seven Candelabri, from the music for The Ship] by D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938, undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by the composer. With a personal note to Steinert from [unidentified] on the title page. Printed in Italian and Greek. 21 p.

414 Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943, Die Toteninsel, Symphonische Dichtung zum Gemalde, Op. 29, [Isle of the Dead, after the Gemalde by A. Bocklin], 1910

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Taubmann. Printed in German and French. 33 p.

Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937 51 Dapnis et Chloe, Ballet en un acte, Fragments Symphoniques pour Orchestre et Choeurs; Nocturne - Interlude - Danse Guerriere, 1911

Fragile cover and pages.

Transcription for two pianos and four hands by Leon Roques. Printed in French. 24 p.

52 Daphnis & Chloe, Ballet en un acte, 2e serie, Lever du jour - Pantomime - Danse Generale, 1913

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Transcription for two pianos and four hands by Leon Roques. Printed in French. 41 p.

53 Daphnis & Chloe, Ballet en un acte, 2e serie, Lever du jour - Pantomime - Danse Generale, 1919

Fragile cover and pages.

Transcription for two pianos and four hands by Lucien Garban. Printed in French. 44 p.

54 Quatuor, 1911

Trabscription for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 57 p.

55 Rapsodie Espagnole, 1908

Arrangement for 2 pianos and 4 hands. Printed in French. 32 p.

56 Sheherazade, Trois poemes pour chant & orchestre, 1912

Score for voice and piano. Text in French and English. 24 p.

57 Trio pour Violion, Violoncelle, & Piano, 1917

Fragile cover and pages.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Lucien Garban. Printed in French. 48 p.

58 La Valse, Poeme Choregraphique, 1920

Transcription for piano and four hands by Lucien Garban. Printed in French. 42 p.

59 Valses nobles et sentimentales (Adelaide), 1918

Fragile cover and pages.

Transcription for piano and four hands by Lucien Garban. Printed in French. 36 p.

510 Reger, Max, 1873-1916, Sinfonietta, Op.90, 1905

The pages in this book have not been cut completely; every other page does not open because the tops of the pages are still attached.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Th. Muller-Reuter. Printed in German. 115 p.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908 61 Le Conte du Tsar Sultan, suite pour orchestre, tableaux musicaux [The Tale of Tsar Saltan] , 1899(?)

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Reduction for piano and four hands by Nadejda Rimsky-Korsakov. Printed in Russian and French. 45 p.

62 Le Coq d'or, suite pour grand orchestre, quatre tableaux musicals de l'opera [Zolotoy petushok (The Golden Cockerel), Suite for Orchestra], undated

Transcription for piano and four hands by K. Tschernow. Printed in Russian and French. 61 p.

63 La Grande Paque Russe, Ouverture sur des themes de l'Eglise Russe, Op. 36 [Svetlïy prazdnik: Great Russian Passover, or, Russian Easter Festival], 1890

Reduction for piano and four hands by Sigmund Blumenfeld. Printed in Russian and French. 41 p.

64 La Nuit de Noel, Suite de l'Opera d'apres Gogol; Die Nacht vor dem Christfeste, [Christmas Eve, or, The Night Before Christmas], 1904

Reduction for piano and four hands by A. Winkler. Printed in Russian, German, and French. 67 p.

65 Sadko, Tableau musical pour Orchestre, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands N. Pourgold. Printed in French and Russian. 31 p.

66 Snegourotchka (Snegourochka), Suite de l'Opera [The Snow Maiden], undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Reduction for piano and four hands by A. de Dreyer. Printed in Russian and French. 37 p.

67 Roussel, Albert, Le Bachelier de Salamanque Op. 20, No. 1, 1919

Score for voice and piano. Text in French. 4 p.

Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921 68 Deuxieme Concerto pour Piano avec l'accompt d'orchestre , Op. 22. [Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor], Undated

Missing cover and incomplete at 64 p.

Orchestral accompaniment reduced for a second Piano by Adam Laussel. Printed in French. Incomplete at 64 p.

69 [Deuxieme] Symphonie en la mineur, Op. 55. [2nd Sym in A minor], 1908

Arrangement for piano and four hands by A. Messager. Printed in French. 53 p.

610 Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso pour violin et orchestre, Op. 28, 1908

Transcription for piano and four hands by Jacques Durand. Printed in French. 29 p.

611 Schmitt, Florent, 1870-1958, Antoine et Cleopatre, six episodes symphoniques en deux suites d'apres le drame de Shakespeare, Op. 69, 1920

Transcription for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in French. 43 p.

612 Schubert, Franz, 1808-1878, (Schubert, Francois), Fantasie, Op. 15, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French. 47 p.

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 613 Genoveva, Ouverture, Op. 81, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French, German, and Italian. 15 p.

614 OHermann und Dorothea, uverture zu Gothe's, Op. 136, undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 19 p.

615 Julius Caesar, Ouverture Op. 128, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French, German, and Italian. 13 p.

616 Manfred, Ouverture, Op. 115, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 15 p.

Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 71 Karelia-Ouverture, Op. 10, 1906

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Karl von Karl Ekman. Printed in German. 17 p.

72 Suite champetre pour piano, No. 3, Danse, Op. 98b, 1922

Piece for solo piano. Printed in French. 5 p.

73 13 Morceaux pour le piano, No. 5 Consolation, Op. 76, 1922

Fragile pages.

Piece for solo piano. Printed in French. 5 p.

Steinert, Alexander L. 74 Barcarolle, 1932

Score for piano. 7 p.

5 Queen and Huntress (Hymn to Diana), 1967

Score for four-part chorus of mixed voices, a capella. Piano part included for rehearsal only. 11 p.

6 Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra, 1970

Score arranged for clarinet and piano, 14 p.

77 Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899, Ouverture zur Operette: Eine Nacht in Venedig, [One Night in Venice], undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by A. Oelschlegel. Printed in German. 15 p.

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 78 Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 [An Alpine Symphony], 1915

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Singer. Printed in German. 81 p.

79 Also Spracht Zarathustra, Tondichtung, Op. 30, 1896

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Singer. Printed in German. 55 p.

710 Don Juan, Tondichtung fir grosses Orchester (nach Nicolaus Lenau), Op. 20, 1907

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Ludwig Thuille. Printed in German. 35 p.

711 Enoch Arden (a melodrama for piano and narrator set to the poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson), Op. 38, 1905

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Paul Klengel. Printed in German. 55 p.

712 Eine Heldenleben, Op. 40 [A Hero's Life], 1899

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Singer. Printed in German. 63 p.

713 Macbeth, Tondichtung Op. 23., 1896

Arrangement for two pianos and four hands by Otto Singer (or Ludwig Thuille). Printed in German. 39 p.

714 Militarmarsche, Op. 57 [Military marches], 1907

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 11 p.

715 Salome, Drama nach Oscar Wilde's gleichnaminger Dichtung Op. 54, 1906

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Taubmann. Printed in German. 23 p.

16 Sechs Lieder Op. 56, No. 6 Die heiligen drei Konige aus Morgenland, 1906

Score for voice and piano. Text in German. 7 p.

717 Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, nach alter Schelmenweise-in-Rondeauform, Op. 28, [Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks], 1895

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Hermann Ley. Printed in German. 33 p.

718 Tod und Verklarung, Tondichtung, Op. 24, [Death and Transfiguration, tone poem], 1908

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Singer. Printed in German. 93 p.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich) 719 Funfte Symphonie, Op. 64 [Sym #5 in E minor], undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by S. Taneeff (Taneew). Printed in German. 93 p.

720 Suite, Op. 43, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by the composer. Printed in German. 93 p.

81 Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901, Il Trovatore, Oper in 4 acten, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German and Italian. 125 p.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 82 Eine Faust - Ouverture, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 19 p.

83 Gotterdammerung, Der Ring des Nibelungen, No. 4, undated

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by H. Cramer. Printed in German. 19 p.

84 Parsifal, No. 10, Charfreitagszauber, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by E. Humperdink. Printed in German. 13 p.

85 Das Rheingold, Vorspiel und erste Scene, Auf dem Grunde des Rheines [Opening movement and first scene], undated

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Alb. Heintz. Printed in German. 11 p.

86 Siegfried - Idyll, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Jos. Rubinstein. Printed in German. 10 p

87 Tannhauser, Akt I, No. 1 - Einleitung der Venusberg (Tanz der Nymphen, Gesang der Sirenen), undated

Broken binding. Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Hans de Bulow. Printed in German. 10 p (38-47).

88 Tannhauser, Marche et choeur, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Hans de Bulow. Printed in French. 15 p.

89 Tannhauser, Ouverture, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Hans de Bulow. Printed in French. 33 p.

810 Tristan und Isolde, potpourri [Collection of themes from Tristan and Isolde], 1909

Arrangement for piano and four hands by Otto Taubmann. Printed in German, French and English. 27 p.

811 Tristan und Isolde, Symphonische Stucke - Heft II [Symphonic pieces from Tristan and Isolde, Part 2], undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by A. Heintz. Printed in German, French and English. 19 p.

812 Tristan und Isolde, Symphonische Stucke - Heft III [Symphonic pieces from Tristan and Isolde, Part 3], undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands by A. Heintz. Printed in German, French and English. 19 p.

813 Die Walkure, Vorspiel, undated

Fragile cover and pages.

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German. 13 p.

814 Walkure, Wotan's Abschied und Feurerzauber (Wotan's Farewell and Fire-Charm), undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in German, French and English. 17 p.

Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826 815 Abu Hassan, Ouverture, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 7 p.

816 Der Freischutz, Ouverture, undated

Arrangement for piano and four hands. Printed in French and German. 11 p.

Series III: Scrapbooks, 1909 - 1977

There are five different scrapbooks each containing newspaper clippings along with some performance programs and there are occasional annotations next to these inserts. Most of the clippings are reviews of performances of Steinert’s works. The books are very fragile and the pages delicate.

Alphabetical by scrapbook title

91 Clippings, 1933 - 1945, 1976

Fragile.

This scrapbook contains concert and opera programs from productions at various theaters; many of these do not feature works by Steinert, and these may represent performances he attended or with which he had some other association. There are also programs and reviews of Steinert's works. The spine reads, "1933-1944," but the actual range of dates continues into 1945 and there is a also newspaper article inserted from 1977.

101 Opera programs, 1909 - 1918

Fragile.

This scrapbook contains opera programs for performances that Steinert may have attended as a boy and up until the time he must have begun his studies at Harvard.

102 Programs & reviews, 1922 - 1934

Fragile.

Programs and reviews of works performed.

111 Reviews & clippings, 1926 - 1931

Fragile.

Programs and reviews of works performed.

112 Reviews & clippings, 1945 - 1977

Fragile.

Programs and reviews of works performed.