FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Leo Smit papers
- Title
- Leo Smit papers 1905-1998.
- Author
Collection information
Finding aid
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| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 22 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 00-42 Box 22 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 21 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 00-42 Box 21 | Item locationOffsite |
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| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 12 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 00-42 Box 12 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 11 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 00-42 Box 11 | Item locationOffsite |
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| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 7 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 00-42 Box 7 | Item locationOffsite |
| Status Available by appointment. | ContainerBox 6 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 00-42 Box 6 | Item locationOffsite |
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Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 13 linear feet (22 boxes)
- Summary
- The Leo Smit Papers document the professional musical career of the distinguished pianist and composer.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Clippings.
- Correspondence.
- Lecture notes.
- Librettos.
- Photographs.
- Programs.
- Slides.
- Scores.
- Call number
- JPB 00-42
- Biography (note)
- American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, Leo Smit (1921-1999) enjoyed a career that spanned nearly seventy years.
- Indexes/finding aids (note)
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Author
- Smit, Leo, 1921-1999.
- Title
- Leo Smit papers 1905-1998.
- Biography
- American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, Leo Smit (1921-1999) enjoyed a career that spanned nearly seventy years. He established close working relationships and friendships with many of the most prominent musicians of the twentieth century, including Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Shapero, William Schuman, and Lukas Foss. As a performer, Smit was an advocate and interpreter of the music of his time, especially the solo piano music of Aaron Copland, with whom he enjoyed an especially close relationship. Born in in Philadelphia, Smit received his earliest musical training from his parents and studied piano at the Curtis Institute of Music. He began his professional career as a pianist while still in his teens, his first job being rehearsal pianist for George Balanchine's American Ballet Company in 1936-1937. Smit gave his first recital as a solo pianist at Carnegie Hall in February 1939. Among his numerous teaching positions were Sarah Lawrence College (1947-1949), University of California, Los Angeles (1957-1963), and the State University of New York at Buffalo (1962-1984).
- Indexes
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Composers.
- Pianists.
- Added author
- Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945.
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009.
- Schuman, William, 1910-1992.
- Shapero, Harold, 1920-
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
- Smit, Leo, 1921-1999. Ecstatic pilgrimage.
- Smit, Leo, 1921-1999. Magic water.
- Research call number
- JPB 00-42