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Alexander Brott fonds [multiple media]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Fonds

Date :

c1851, [190-?]-2005.

Référence :

R12803-0-6-E

Genre de documents :

Art, Documents photographiques, Documents sonores, Documents textuels, Objets (incluant les médailles et épinglettes), Images en mouvement

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Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

3855415

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Alexander Brott fonds
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Fonds comprend :

13 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

c1851, [190-?]-2005.

Lieu de création :

Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminé

Étendue :

18.60 m of textual records.
2106 photographs : 1212 b&w and 520 col., 24 b&w and 1 col. contact sheets, 280 b&w and 35 col. negatives, 34 col. slides.
15 drawings.
3 watercolours.
1 painting.
1 serigraph.
1 print.
1 mold.
1 sculpture : plaster bust.
7 plaques.
2 medals.
164 audio cassettes (118 hrs 24 min. 21 sec.).
103 audio reels (64 hrs 12 min. 29 sec.).
31 audio discs (9 hrs 36 min.).
1 videocassette (4 min. 40 sec.).

Langue du document :

anglais

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The fonds comprises records concerning Alexander Brott's activities as a composer, violonist, conductor and teacher. It contains, among other items, biographical records; correspondence (Wilfrid Pelletier, Sir Thomas Beecham, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Charles Munch, Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland, Pierre Monteux, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Howard Hanson, Otto Klemperer, Jascha Heifetz, François D'Albert, Glenn Gould, Igor Markevitch, Leonard Rose, David Oistrakh, Janos Starker, Gary Karr, Antonio Janigro, Benny Goodman, Maureen Forrester, Mordecai Richler, Jan Simons, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alexandre Lagoya, Vlado Perlemuter, Maurice Gendron, Jörg Demus, Larry Adler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ravi Shankar, Pierre Fournier, Mstislav Rostropovich, James Galway, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anton Kuerti, Ernest Bloch, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Eugene Ormandy, Ralph Vaughan Williams, José Iturbi, Daniel Barenboim, Gregor Piatigorsky, etc.); musical works; contracts; minutes of meetings; schedules; itineraries; financial records; grant applications; audition results; concert programmes; promotional material; guest lists; writings; speeches; diplomas; certificates; student essays; notebooks; press clippings; photographs mainly of Alexander Brott, family members and musicians; representations of Alexander Brott by artists such as Harry Pollack, G. Prince and Elizabeth Harrison; sound recordings of works by Alexander Brott and others, of him conducting various orchestras, and of interviews.

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Brott, Alexander, 1915-2005

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Brott, Alexander, 1915-2005 : Conductor, composer, violinist and teacher born in Montreal, Alexander Brott received his first violin at age five, beginning studies on the instrument with Misha Kogan, and subsequently with Eugene Schneider and Alfred DeSève. The recipient of multiple bursaries from the McGill Conservatory (1929-1934), he pursued his training as a violinist with Maurice Onderet and as a composer with Douglas Clarke. In 1934, Brott was accepted to the Juilliard School, where he was the pupil of such renowned musicians as Sascha Jacobsen (violin), Bernard Wagenaar (composition) and Albert Stoessel (conducting). Following his studies in 1939, he became professor at McGill University, a position he maintained until his retirement in 1985.

A talented violinist, he performed in recital in various parts of Canada and was a member of numerous ensembles including the Montreal Trio, the CBC Trio, the Montreal Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the McGill String Quartet, which he founded in 1939 with Edwin Sherrard (second violin), Joseph Oriold (viola) and Jean Belland (cello). In 1942, Lotte Goetzel became cellist of the ensemble and the following year, the wife of Alexander Brott. The two undertook many musical projects, which they brought to fruition with undeniable passion, transmitting this same energy to their sons Boris (conductor) and Denis (cellist).

As a conductor, Alexander Brott led orchestras in Canada and around the world, including the Montreal Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kingston Symphony Association, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Northern Orchestra, Kol Israel Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de México, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Soviet State Radio and Television. With his spouse, he founded the McGill Chamber Orchestra, conducting the majority of its concerts. This ensemble quickly became famous and toured, among other places, Russia, Switzerland, Japan, Mexico, Bermuda and the Yukon. Each season, it was joined by internationally renowned guest soloists such as David Oïstrakh, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Yo-Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Glenn Gould, Isaac Stern and Maureen Forrester. In the spirit of Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops, Brott also established in Montreal popular concerts which became a summer tradition for several years.

During his career, Brott composed a number of commissioned works, notably From Sea to Sea (CBC), Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Little Symphony of Montreal), Spheres in Orbit (Montreal Symphony Orchestra), Three Astral Visions (Samuel Lapitsky Foundation), Songs of the Central Eskimos (Canada Council), Martlet's Muse (Graduates' Society of McGill University) and Shofar (Canadian Jewish Congress). He was the recipient of, among other awards, the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge prize (Two Symphonic Movements, 1938; Oracle, 1939) as well as bronze medals for composition at the time of the Olympiads in London (War and Peace, 1948) and in Helsinki (Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1952). Other distinctions include the Sir Arnold Bax Gold Medal (1961), Pro Mundi Beneficio Medal (1975), Order of Canada (1979) and the Ordre national du Québec (1987).

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(Électronique) Arrangement and description of textual records and photographs by Stéphane Jean; arrangement and description of sound and audiovisual recordings by Jeannine Barriault. (90: Ouvert)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002406.pdf

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