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Vera Brodsky Lawrence papers

Title: Vera Brodsky Lawrence papers, 1863-1991 (bulk 1970-1984)
Author: Lawrence, Vera Brodsky.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-11 Box 1	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-11 Box 2	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 03-11 Box 3	Offsite
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19.5 linear feet (38 boxes)

Summary

The Vera Brodsky Lawrence papers focus on her work with Scott Joplin's music, specifically as the editor of Joplin's Complete Works, and as an instrumental figure in the stage production of Joplin's opera Treemonisha.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Scores.
Sheet music.

Biography (note)

Vera Brodsky Lawrence (1909-1996) enjoyed two successful, consecutive careers, as a concert pianist and as a music historian, whose authoritative scholarship helped to renew interest in American ragtime music.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

JPB 03-11

OCLC

NYPG05-A10138

Author

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky.

Title

Vera Brodsky Lawrence papers, 1863-1991 (bulk 1970-1984)

Biography

Vera Brodsky Lawrence (1909-1996) enjoyed two successful, consecutive careers, as a concert pianist and as a music historian, whose authoritative scholarship helped to renew interest in American ragtime music. A graduate of Juilliard, she was well known in the 1930s and 1940s for her duo-piano playing with Harold Triggs, and for solo performances on radio stations, playing under the name, Vera Brodsky. Following the death of her husband, Theodore Lawrence, in 1964, she stopped playing the piano professionally and published her first major work, The Piano Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1969). In 1970 her focus turned to the music of Scott Joplin, and together with the New York Public Library, she published a two-volume set of his collected works. Lawrence's involvement with Joplin's music included a consultant position on the production of the posthumous premiere of his opera, Treemonisha (1972). Two of Lawrence's other books are: Music for Patriots, Politicians, and Presidents (1975), a collection of early American political songs and other Americana; and a three volume work on the nineteenth century New York music scene, drawing on the diaries of George Templeton Strong, titled Strong on Music (1988-1999), which she was still working on at the time of her death.

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Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

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Occupation

Musicologists.

Pianists.

Added Author

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Music for patriots, politicians, and presidents.

Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Strong on music.

Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917. Treemonisha.

Triggs, Harold, 1900-

Research Call Number

JPB 03-11

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