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Ernst Bacon Collection, 1907-1990 [collection]

Title

Ernst Bacon Collection, 1907-1990 [collection]

Dates Created

Span: 1907-1990

Bulk: 1930-1980

Language

English

Form

collection

Physical Description

16 ft.

54 boxes

Abstract

Ernst Bacon, composer, music theorist, pianist, and conductor was born on May 26, 1898. He was the son of Dr. Charles S. Bacon and Maria von Rosthorn Bacon, herself a Viennese-trained musician. He studied at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, also privately with Alexander Raab, Glenn Dillard Gunn, Ernest Bloch, and Karl Weigl. At age 19 he published an article, "Our Musical Idiom." Largely ignored at the time, this article is now recognized as the first complete listing of all scalar and harmonic possibilities in the twelve-tone equal-tempered system. A multi-faceted musician, Bacon composed and conducted symphonies, operas, piano concertos, musical theater, ensemble and solo instrumental and vocal works. He concertized as a pianist in Europe and America, and he conducted the WPA orchestra in California from 1935 to 1937. He taught and administered at Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester(1926-27), Syracuse University's music department (1945-47), and Converse College in South Carolina (1938-45).

Contents Note

Music, writings, correspondence, iconography, and other materials.

Preferred Citation

Ernst Bacon Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

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Subjects

Composers

Bacon, Ernst

Bloch, Ernest

Chadwick, George Whitefield

Persichetti, Vincent

Sandburg, Carl

Wilder, Thornton

Call Number

ML31.B23

Repository

Music Division, Library of Congress

Finding Aid

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003006

Last Updated: 01-25-2011