Collection search - Arnold Walter fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Arnold Walter fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1920-1973].

Reference:

R18438-0-0-E, MUS 71

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

207013

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Arnold Walter fonds
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Date(s):

[ca. 1920-1973].

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5 m of textual records.
170 photographs.
7 audio discs.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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The fonds contains records pertaining to the musical activities of Arnold Walter. His writings also reveal a man who was conscious of the development of musical education in Canada and open to new music learning theories. Included are: curriculum vitae; passports; certificates and diploma; personal and professional correspondence, including letters from such personalities as Carl Orff, Jean-Marie Beaudet, Aaron Copland, Emily Carr and Marshall McLuhan; lecture notes and speeches; articles; radio texts; reports; files on the publication of Aspects of Music in Canada and other publication projects; files on his visits to Japan, Moscow and Vienna; music manuscripts; articles on Arnold Walter; brochures; press clippings; photographs, chiefly of Arnold Walter, artists and performances.

Provenance:

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Walter, Arnold, 1902-1973

Biography/Administrative history:

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Walter, Arnold, 1902-1973 : Educator, administrator, musicologist and composer born in Czechoslovakia, Arnold Walter studied jurisprudence at the University of Prague and musicology at the University of Berlin. He also took private piano lessons with Rudolf Breithaupt and Frederic Lamond, and composition lessons with Franz Schreker. Being without employment as a pianist-composer in Berlin, Walter decided to turn to writing, and contributed to the magazine Melos. In the early 1930s, he was put in charge of the music column for the periodical Die Weltbühne, and also became music critic for the Vorwärts magazine. Arnold Walter moved to Canada in 1937, finding employment as a teacher at Upper Canada College in Toronto. In 1945, hired by the Toronto Conservatory of Music, he applied the recommendations of Ernest Hutcheson's report on the reform of music education in Toronto by establishing the Senior School of the Toronto Conservatory of Music and the opera school (Royal Conservatory Opera School). In 1952 he became director of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music. As a composer, he wrote works for piano and for orchestra, as well as chamber music and electroacoustic music.

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Textual record; graphic material (photo) (Electronic) The finding aid consists of provisional descriptions of folders and items that accrued to the fonds in 1976; 1992, and 1993. 7 p.; digitized document. (90: Open)

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1 : 2000-19
3 : 1976-5
14 : 1976-5
20 : 1976-5
22 : 1976-5
60 : 1976-5
74 : 1976-5
85 : 1976-5
90 : 1976-5
95 : 1976-5
104 : 1976-5
125 : 1976-5
126 : 1976-5
129 : 1976-5
139 : 1976-5
7 : 1976-5
19 : 1976-5
23 : 1976-5
31 : 1976-5
34 : 1976-5
37 : 1976-5
39 : 1976-5
44 : 1976-5
50 : 1976-5
56 : 1976-5
61 : 1976-5
83 : 1976-5
102 : 1976-5
106 : 1976-5
112 : 1976-5
128 : 1976-5
134 : 1976-5
141 : 1976-5
11 : 1976-5
21 : 1976-5
27 : 1976-5
36 : 1976-5
48 : 1976-5
51 : 1976-5
57 : 1976-5
58 : 1976-5
62 : 1976-5
71 : 1976-5
73 : 1976-5
75 : 1976-5
82 : 1976-5
84 : 1976-5
99 : 1976-5
107 : 1976-5
115 : 1976-5
116 : 1976-5
123 : 1976-5
2 : 1976-5
9 : 1976-5
15 : 1976-5
35 : 1976-5
41 : 1976-5
43 : 1976-5
54 : 1976-5
66 : 1976-5
69 : 1976-5
81 : 1976-5
88 : 1976-5
92 : 1976-5
108 : 1976-5
117 : 1976-5
118 : 1976-5
120 : 1976-5
122 : 1976-5
124 : 1976-5
132 : 1976-5
133 : 1976-5
137 : 1976-5
4 : 1976-5
6 : 1976-5
24 : 1976-5
26 : 1976-5
38 : 1976-5
52 : 1976-5
59 : 1976-5
64 : 1976-5
67 : 1976-5
78 : 1976-5
79 : 1976-5
80 : 1976-5
96 : 1976-5
97 : 1976-5
103 : 1976-5
109 : 1976-5
130 : 1976-5
131 : 1976-5
12 : 1976-5
13 : 1976-5
16 : 1976-5
17 : 1976-5
18 : 1976-5
25 : 1976-5
42 : 1976-5
45 : 1976-5
49 : 1976-5
53 : 1976-5
72 : 1976-5
87 : 1976-5
94 : 1976-5
111 : 1976-5
121 : 1976-5
10 : 1976-5
32 : 1976-5
33 : 1976-5
40 : 1976-5
55 : 1976-5
63 : 1976-5
70 : 1976-5
89 : 1976-5
91 : 1976-5
98 : 1976-5
100 : 1976-5
101 : 1976-5
105 : 1976-5
110 : 1976-5
113 : 1976-5
127 : 1976-5
136 : 1976-5
138 : 1976-5
140 : 1976-5
1 : 1976-5
5 : 1976-5
8 : 1976-5
28 : 1976-5
29 : 1976-5
30 : 1976-5
46 : 1976-5
47 : 1976-5
65 : 1976-5
68 : 1976-5
76 : 1976-5
77 : 1976-5
86 : 1976-5
93 : 1976-5
114 : 1976-5
119 : 1976-5
135 : 1976-5
2 : 1992-36
1 : 1992-36
2 : 1993-34
1 : 1993-34
2 : 1995-52
1 : 1995-52
314 : D12 MUS 71
315 : D12 MUS 71
316 : D12 MUS 71
39 : D16 MUS 71
40 : D16 MUS 71
41 : D16 MUS 71
42 : D16 MUS 71

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MUS 71
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1976-5] 142--143

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1992-36] 3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1995-52] 3--4

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 2000-19] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1976-5] 1--141

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1992-36] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1993-34] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 71 1995-52] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recording [D12] 314--316

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recording [D16] 39--42

[Consultation 90 Open]

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