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Otto Joachim fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[1912?]-2002.

Reference:

R15428-0-2-E, MUS 270

Type of material:

Photographs, Sound recordings, Textual material, Art, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

616769

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Otto Joachim fonds
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Date(s):

[1912?]-2002.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.72 m of textual records.
283 photographs.
2 slides.
76 audio reels.
76 audio cassettes.
4 digital audio cassettes.
1 videocassette.
1 watercolour.

Language of material:

English

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The fonds includes records concerning the life and musical activities of Otto Joachim. Several records also illustrate the many years spent by the composer in Asia. It contains, among other items, biographical and official records (passport, visas); correspondence (Michel Podolski, Hermann Zitzmann, Claude Champagne, Samuel Dolin, John Weinzweig, Paul McIntyre, Kelsey Jones, Helmut Blume, Otto Erdesz, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Julius Pfeiffer, Angela Genger, Robin Elliott, Guy Fouquet, François Morel, Jean Boivin, Udo Kasemets, Glenn Gould, Maureen Forrester, etc.); postcard from Alban Berg to Julius Schloss; writings; musical works including Asia, L'Éclosion, Illumination I, Uraufführung and Mobile für Johann Sebastian Bach; files pertaining to works; concert programmes; promotional material; records related to various activities of Joachim including those of the Montreal Consort of Ancient Instruments; contracts; certificates; diploma; invitation cards; watercolour of Otto Joachim by Carol Goozey; press clippings; photographs of Joachim, family members and other artists; sound recordings of concerts conducted by Joachim and of his works, including Kinderspiel, Paean and Katimavi; and a videocassette of a documentary about Otto Joachim.

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Joachim, Otto, 1910-2010

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Joachim, Otto, 1910-2010 : Born in Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1910, Otto Joachim studied music at the Buths-Neitzel Conservatorium Düsseldorf (1917-1928) and at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne (1928-1931) with Hermann Zitzmann. In 1934, he left Germany and settled in Asia (Singapore, Shanghaï), where he pursued a career as both instrumentalist and teacher. In 1949, the artist obtained an immigrant visa to Brazil and, following a trip to Canada, decided to live in Montreal. He became a member of and solo viola player for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the McGill Chamber Orchestra. Along with his brother Walter (violoncello), Hyman Bress (violin) and Mildred Goodman (violin), he founded the Montreal String Quartet (1955-1963). The ensemble was very successful and its repertoire, consisting of primarily Canadian music, contributed to the dissemination of works of Canadian composers such as François Morel, Clermont Pépin, Violet Archer and Jean Papineau-Couture. In 1956, he pursued a teaching career at the McGill Conservatorium and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where, until 1977, he taught, among other things, chamber music classes.

A period instrument enthusiast, Joachim founded the Montreal Consort of Ancient Instruments in 1958 and even manufactured replicas of certain period instruments. In the 1950s, he established an electroacoustic music studio and opened himself up to a world of sound still little known to his contemporaries. A composer of many moods, he has produced several works including Asia, Concertante No. 1, Contrastes, Divertimento, Night Music, Kinderspiel and Uraufführung. He was also responsible for the electroacoustic music piece called Katimavik, composed for the Expo '67 Canada Pavilion. He received many awards throughout his career including the Prix Paul-Gilson for his work Illumination II in 1969 and the Prix de musique Calixa-Lavallée in 1990.

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(Electronic) Stéphane Jean. The Otto Joachim Fonds: Numerical List. Ottawa: National Library of Canada. 1999. 56 p. (90: Open)
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/028021/f2/06-e.pdf
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/028021/f6/06-e.rtf

Textual record and soundrecording (Electronic) Provisional description (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002118.pdf

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101 : DAT
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10 : 2002-6
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1 : 1997-8
2 : 1997-8

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MUS 270
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MUS 270] 26--28

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MUS 270 2002-6] 14--18

[Consultation 90 Open]

Sound recordings

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Sound recording [DAT] 101--102

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Sound recording [T5] 1031

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Sound recording [C]

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1303--1318;

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2425--2428;

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Sound recording [T10]

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2987--3045;

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3801--3802;

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Sound recording [T7] 3613--3626

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Sound recording [CDR] 45

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Textual records

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Volume [MUS 270] 1--25

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Box [MUS 270 2002-6] 1--13

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Box [MUS 270 1997-8] 1--2

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Graphic (art)

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Moving images (video)

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Video [VVHS]

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191;

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279;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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