Alma Gluck Scrapbooks and Other Materials
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Alma Gluck Scrapbooks and Other Materials 1902-1940 (bulk 1909-1918)
Gluck, Alma, 1884-1938
Biographical History for: Alma Gluck Scrapbooks and Other Materials 1902-1940 (bulk 1909-1918)
Biographical Note Date Event 1884 May 11 Born Reba Fiersohn in Romania 1886 Father Israel Fiersohn dies 1890 Moves to New York with mother Anna Fiersohn 1902 Marries insurance agent Bernard Gluck 1903 Daughter Abigail (Marcia Davenport) born 1906-1909 Studies voice with Arturo Buzzi-Peccia 1909 November 16 Debut performance with Metropolitan Opera Company as Sophie in Werther 1909 November 28 Debut performance at Metropolitan Opera House stage 1910 October 18 First song recital at Mendelssohn Hall 1912 Divorces Bernard Gluck 1912-1913 Studies voice with Marcella Sembrich 1913 Begins recording for Victor Records 1913 June 15 First song recital in London 1914 July 15 Marries violinist Efrem Zimbalist 1916 summer Daughter Marie Virginia born 1916 August 6 Mother Anna Fiersohn dies 1919 Son Efrem Zimbalist Jr. born 1925 May 25 Last recital at Manhattan Opera House 1938 October 27 Dies from cirrhosis of the liver at the Rockefeller Institute, New York
Scope and Content Note The Alma Gluck Scrapbooks and Other Materials span the period 1902-1940, with the majority of the materials dating from 1909-1917. Gluck's distinguished career as an operatic singer is chronicled in eleven scrapbooks filled with clippings of performance reviews and other musical activities, including recording releases with Victor Records and voice studies with Marcella Sembrich. Interspersed are articles pertaining to personal matters such as her divorce from Bernard Gluck, marriage to Efrem Zimbalist, and other subjects. The "Photographs" series consists of fifty-nine black and white images of family portraits, concert tours, and assorted publicity shots. Included are photographs of Efrem Zimbalist with Walter Damrosch and an album from Gluck's World War I performances at Camp Lewis, Washington. The "Music" series is comprised almost entirely of annotated and unannotated printed piano-vocal scores, the exception being a tunebook with melodic lines scrawled in the singer's hand. The remaining materials include several letters, articles, obituaries and sympathy cards, and reviews of Marcia Davenport's biography on Mozart.
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Scrapbooks, 1909-1917
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1909 November 16 - 1910 September 8
1910 September 9 - 1911 October 20
1911 October 4 - 1912 January 29
1912 January 31 - 1912 June 9
1912 March 21 - 1912 December 8
1913 January 22 - 1914 July 31
1913 June 10 - 1914 March 28
1915 April 24 - 1916 June 30
1914 July 10 - 1915 January 17
1916 July 28 - 1916 December 6
1916 November 25 - 1917 April 4
Photographs, 1902-1928
Music, 1900s-1920s
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Adelaide
Loin de ma tombe obscure
Brahms, Johannes
Dort in den Weiden
O liebliche Wagen
Vorschneller Schwur
Haydn, Joseph
La vie
Lehmann, Liza
In a Persian garden
Lully, Jean Baptiste
Amadis. Bois apais redouble ton ombre
Martini, Jean Paul Egide
Plaisir d'amour
Méhul, Etienne Nicolas
Joseph. Air de Joseph
Monsigny, Pierre-Alexandre
O ma tendre musette
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Alleluia
Cosi fan tutte
Idomeneo. Zeffiretti lusinghieri
Lieder
My favorite songs: Alma Gluck
Rosa, Salvator
Only smile, I will ask nothing more
Schubert, Franz
Die Forelle
Heidenröslein
Der Lindenbaum
Die Post
An Sylvia
Schumann, Robert
Auftrage
Er ist's
Frühlingsnacht
Intermezzo
Der Nussbaum
Strauss, Richard
Du meines Herzens Krönelein
Tunebook
Miscellany, 1913-1940
Alma Gluck Zimbalist Memorial performance, 1940 November 23
Articles about AG, 1913, 1938-1939, undated
Letter from AG to Marcia Davenport, undated
Letter from [Uncle] Dan Froham to AG, April 15
Marcia Davenport materials, 1932, undated
Obituaries, 1939, undated
Sympathy notes and cards regarding death of AG
Davenport, Marcia. Mozart. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932