Frederick Loewe Collection
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Frederick Loewe Collection 1923-1988 (bulk 1945-1975)
Frederick Loewe, 1901-1988
Biographical History for: Frederick Loewe Collection 1923-1988 (bulk 1945-1975)
Biographical Note Date Event 1901, June 10 Born, Berlin, Germany, to Edmund Loewe, a well-known Viennese tenor who originated the role of Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow (1906) and Rosa (Rose) Stagl Loewe, an actress. Loewe occasionally claimed that he was born in Vienna, Austria, which could have been due to his fear of anti-German sentiment after World War II 1906 Began piano lessons 1906-1914 Attended Berlin Military Academy circa 1908 Began composing Contributed several numbers to his father's variety act circa 1910-circa 1920 Studied music at Stern Conservatory in Berlin Studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni and Eugen d'Albert Studied composition and orchestrations with Emil Nikolaus von Rezniček 1914 Became the youngest piano soloist to appear with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra 1916 Composed hit song "Katrina" 1923 Awarded the Hollander Medal for piano 1924 Accompanied parents on a trip to the United States Gave a concert at New York’s Town Hall circa 1925-circa 1929 Worked odd jobs in New York such as, busboy in a cafeteria, bantam weight boxer at a Brooklyn athletic club circa 1929-circa 1930 Worked out West as itinerant cowboy, gold prospector, cowpuncher in Montana, mail carrier on horseback circa 1930-circa 1939 Played piano in Greenwich Village nightclub and at the Rivoli Theatre, a movie house on Broadway; taught horseback riding at a New Hampshire resort; played piano on cruise ships and in Yorkville beerhalls 1931 Married Ernestine “Tina” Zwerleine, manager of the Hattie Carnegie fashion enterprises (divorced 1957) 1933 Played piano in pit orchestra for operetta Champagne, Sec Befriended cast member Kitty Carlisle 1935, Mar. 4 Operetta Petticoat Fever opened (Loewe song interpolated into its score) 1935 Joined the Lambs Club in New York 1935-1940 Worked on two unproduced musicals: Saints and Sinners in collaboration with Harold Rome, and The Milkman’s Serenade in collaboration with James Tranter 1936, Jan. 22 The Illustrator’s Show opened (Loewe song interpolated into its score) 1937, June 12 Salute to Spring, with Loewe score, opened in St. Louis, Missouri 1938, Dec. 1 Great Lady, with Loewe score, opened 1942, Mar. 27 Gave recital at Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, including excerpts from his own Insect Suite 1942 Met Alan Jay Lerner at the Lambs Club Lerner and Loewe composed the score for the show The Life of the Party 1943, Nov. 11 What’s Up?, with Lerner and Loewe score, opened 1945, Nov. 22 The Day Before Spring, with Lerner and Loewe score, opened 1947, Mar. 13 Brigadoon, with Lerner and Loewe score, opened 1951, Nov. 12 Paint Your Wagon, with Lerner and Loewe score, opened 1956, Mar. 15 My Fair Lady, with Lerner and Loewe score, opened 1958, Feb. 26 Suffered heart attack 1958 Gigi (film), with Lerner and Loewe score, released 1960, Dec. 3 Camelot, with Lerner and Loewe score, opened 1960-1969 Lived in Palm Springs, California in the winter, the Riviera in the spring, the Tyrol in the summer, and occasionally in New York 1962 Travelled to Japan with Burgess Meredith to research a musical 1967, Oct. 24 Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary degree), New York University 1973, Nov. 13 Stage version of Gigi opened, with four new Lerner and Loewe songs 1974 The Little Prince (film), with Lerner and Loewe score, released 1979, May 14 Gala tribute for Lerner and Loewe at the Winter Garden Theater 1985 Received Kennedy Center Honor 1986, June 14 Alan Jay Lerner died 1988, Feb. 14 Loewe died from a heart attack at his home, Palm Springs, California
Scope and Content Note The Frederick Loewe Collection spans 1923-1988, with the bulk of the materials dating between 1945-1975. The Music series contains manuscripts from Loewe's stage and screen musicals, including songs cut from shows. It also contains individual songs not associated with a particular show and songs from less well-known shows. Of particular interest are autograph manuscripts from Loewe's most famous musicals, Brigadoon, Camelot, Gigi, My Fair Lady and Paint Your Wagon. The Miscellaneous Personal Papers series includes correspondence, various writings, programs, and clippings. The Photographs series contains over 500 photographs of Frederick Loewe, his family, friends, and home. The Business Papers series includes manuscript appraisals, records of charitable giving, and correspondence.
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Brigadoon , 1947
Almost like being in love
Piano-vocal score; 8 p.
Piano-vocal score; 5 p.
Ballad of Jamie MacLean
Lead sheet; [1] p.
Brigadoon
Piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Piano-choral score; 2 p.
The chase
Piano-vocal score; p. 1-4, 6-10, 10A, 11
Come to me-bend to me
Piano-vocal score; 2 p.
Come to me-bend to me ballet
Piano score; 6 p.
Dancin' day
Down on MacConnachy square
Piano-vocal score; [7] p.
Choral arrangement; [1] p.
Duty of a woman see Sketches
End of Lundie scene
Piano score; [1] p.
Choral sketch; [1] p.
Short score/sketch; 2 p.
Choral score; [1] p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-choral score; 2 p.
Finale I
From this day on
Piano-vocal score; 1 p.
Gavotte
Piano score; 4 p.
Have a morning see Sketches
The heather on the hill
Piano-vocal score; 4 p.
2 piano-vocal scores; 5 p.
I insist see Sketches
I'll go home with Bonnie Jean
Piano-vocal score; 3 p.
Vocal arrangement sketch; [1] p.
I'll go home with Bonnie Jean ballet
Piano score; 7 p.
Jeannie's packin' up
Jeannie's wedding day
The love of my life
The miracle
My mother's weddin' day
Piano-vocal score; [1] p.
Nothin' like a man
Prologue
She doesn't hear me see also Sketches
Sword dance
Piano score/piano-vocal score; [9] p.
Copyist's manuscript piano score/piano-vocal score; 6 p.
There but for you go I
True love see Sketches
Vendors' calls
Piano-choral score; 5 p.
Waitin' for my Dearie
Piano-choral score; 4 p.
We're very lucky see Sketches
Wooin' in the highlands
Sketches; [4] p.
Sketches; [7] p.
Piano-vocal selections; [15] p.
Original manuscript folder
Camelot , 1960
Before I gaze at you again
Camelot
Piano-vocal score; 9 p.
Sheet music
C'est moi
Piano-vocal score; 7 p.
Finale ultimo
Piano-vocal score; 6 p.
Follow me (Nimue's call)
Guenevere
Piano-vocal score; 16 p.
How to handle a woman
I loved you once in silence
I wonder what the king is doing tonight
If ever I would leave you
The jousts
The lusty month of May
March
Piano score; 3 p.
Overture
The persuasion
The seven deadly virtues
The simple joys of maidenhood
Piano-vocal score; 10 p.
Lead sheet; 2 p.
What do the simple folk do? see also Please don’t marry me from My Fair Lady
Piano-vocal score; 15 p.
Vocal selections; 27 p.
The day before spring , 1945
Anyone else
Ballet I (Eternal youth)
Lead sheet/condensed score; 3 p.
Copyist's manuscript piano score/piano-choral score; 14 p.
Book ballet see Peter reads the book
Bridge
Copyist's manuscript piano score; 8 p.
The day before spring
Copyist's manuscript short score/piano-vocal score; 4 p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 3 p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 4 p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 9 p.
Friends to the end
For anyone else see Anyone else and My love is a married man
God's green world
I love you this morning
The invitation
Piano-vocal score; [9] p.
A jug of wine
Love bower see Where's my wife
My love is a married man
Peter reads the book
Piano-vocal score; 13 p.
This is my holiday
Piano-vocal score; p. 4-8
Where's my wife
Lead sheet; 4 p.
Piano-vocal score; [15] p.
The woman who falls
You haven't changed at all
Piano-vocal score;5 p.
Choral arrangement; 7 p.
Miscellaneous music
Copyist's manuscript piano score; [1] p.
Song lists and title pages
Souvenir program
Gigi , 1958 film, 1973 stage adaptation
Gigi see also Where's my wife from The day before spring
I never want to go home again
I remember it well
I'm glad I'm not young anymore
The night they invented champagne
Piano-vocal score; cover and p. 5 only
Waltz at Maxim's (she is not thinking of me)
Great lady , 1938
And so will you
Copyist's manuscript piano part; [2] p.
Ballad of the streetsinger
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 6 p.
Change into past
Cinderella see Vocal selections
Goodnight madame see also Vocal selections
2 copyist's manuscript piano-vocal scores; [3], 3 p.
I can see myself in the theatre see Miscellaneous
I have room in my heart
I'll take my love see also Vocal selections and Fragments
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; [4] p.
The little corporal see Vocal selections
Madame is at home see Vocal selections, Miscellaneous and Fragments
May I suggest
Copyist's manuscript piano part/short score; 5 p.
The night can be blind see Vocal selections
One little pilgrim's progress (Silhouette ballet)
Once in every lifetime see Vocal selections
Promenade see also Vocal selections
Road to Paris see Vocal selections
There had to be a waltz see Vocal selections
To whom it may concern see Vocal selections
Tongues may wag see also Vocal selections
2 copyist's manuscript piano-vocal scores; 7 p.
Transition Act I and Transition Act II see Vocal selections
Transition scene 6
Copyist's manuscript piano part; 15 p.
Transition scene 6-7 Act I see Miscellaneous
Transition to "Just a stitch in time"
Why can't this night last forever see Vocal selections
Vocal selections
Lead sheets; [38] p.
Lead sheets; [5] p.
Miscellaneous
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; [15] p.
Unidentified
Piano score; p. 5-7
Fragments
"Madame at home" piano-vocal score; p. 18
"I'll take my love" piano-vocal score; [2] p.
The life of the party , 1942
Here we go again
Life of the party
One robin doesn't make a spring
Lead sheet/piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Wearin' the grin
The little prince , 1974 film
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score
My fair lady , 1956
Ascot gavotte
Come to the ball
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 11 p.
Dear little fool
Embassy waltz
Piano score; 8 p.
Entr’acte
Flower market
Piano score/piano-vocal score; 5 p.
Get me to the church on time
Piano-vocal score; [5] p.
A hymn to him
I could have danced all night
I'm an ordinary man
I've grown accustomed to her face
Just you wait
Lady Liza
Lead sheet; 1 p.
Liza-counter
On the street where she lives
Piano score; [2] p.
Please don't marry me
Lead sheet; 3 p.
The Pygmalion waltzes
Holograph piano score; 4 p.
The rain in Spain
The servants chorus
Show me
Shy
There's a thing called love
What is a woman?
Why can't the English? see also covers for I could have danced all night, On the street where she lives and Show me
With a little bit of luck
Without you
Wouldn't it be loverly see also Flower market
You did it: opening act II
Piano-vocal score; 23 p.
Synopsis of musical numbers
Piano-vocal score; [4] p.
Vocal selections; 30 p.
Paint your wagon , 1951
Growing pains see Muchee good world
Hand me down that can o' beans
Piano-vocal score; 12 p.
How can I wait?
I still see Eliza see also A pebble in a stream
I talk to the trees
I'm on my way
Lead sheet; 12 p.
Choral arrangement; 2 p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 16 p.
In between
Julio's song see Sh!
Mormon's prayer see Trio
Movin'
Muchee good world
Piano-vocal score; p. 1, 2A, 2B, 3-9
Lyric sheet; [1] p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; p. 4-8
A pebble in a stream see I still see Eliza and A pebble in a stream
Say hello for me
Sh!
The strike
Piano score/lead sheet; 10 p.
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; 7 p.
Take the wheels off the wagon
There's a coach comin' in!
Choral score; 14 p.
They call the wind Maria
Choral score; 3 p.
Trio
Wait for me see I'm on my way
Whoop-ti-ay!
Folders which contained above scores, titled in Loewe’s hand
Piano-vocal score; 260 p.
Petticoat fever , 1934
Love tiptoed through my heart
Salute to spring , 1937
April day
2 piano-vocal scores; 5 p. each
It's extraordinary
Lead sheet; [2] p.
One robin
Salute to spring
Set to music
Lead sheets and sketches; [28] p.
Songlist; [1] p.
What's up , 1943
A girl is like a book
How fly times
The ill-tempered clavichord
Holograph piano-vocal score
Three girls in a boat
You wash and I'll dry
Sketch; [1] p.
You're easy to get along with
You've got a hold on me
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Unidentified Show
Piano-vocal score; p. 1-9, 12, 14-23, 26-29, 33-36
One-two-three
Untitled
Piano score; p. 12-13
Walking theme and chorus
Condensed score/piano-vocal score and sketch; p. 8-9
Dance specialty
Piano score; p. 33
The best of Lerner and Loewe
Non-Show and Unidentified Music
Barcarolle see Multiple titles
Ballad
Lead sheet 2 p.
The barrendero, 1942
Piano-vocal; p. 3-10
Piano-vocal; 7 p.
Bedrooms
Piano-choral/short score; 6 p.
Blues in 3/4 time see also item in Unmatched numbered pages
Capriccio
Cath’rine!, 1925
A chair at the table
The clever worm
Every time see Multiple titles
Finale
Piano score/piano-vocal score; 3 p.
First I act ballet
Gaily I sin
Gallop
Growin' pains see also Muchee good world from Paint your wagon
Sketches; [1] p.
Lyric sheet; 2 p.
Heidi
Hollywood/51
Sketches; [3] p.
Hour glass waltz see Untitled pieces
I wish I were your wife
If we could have met in 1929
Piano-vocal score; [3] p.
Just then
Kitchen song see Gaily I sin
Let no man say that the Lord does wrong
Limehouse
Little rendezvous
Love bower see also Where's my wife from The day before spring
Love is blind, 1924
Piano-vocal score
Piano accompaniment arrangement; p. [1] only
The mosquito see Two concert etudes
My family interferes with me
Night after night
The night can be blind
Over your head
The party of the second part
A pebble in a stream
Piano score; 9 p.
Piano concerto for the left hand
Quartette
Piano-choral score; p. 1-3, versos p. 11-13
Rhumba see Multiple titles
Riviera
Sag’ ja..., 1923
Say hello for me see What's to become of me?
Sehr wichtig!!
Someone will love you
The son of a wooden soldier, 1941
The spider and the fly see Two concert etudes
The streetsweeper see The barrendero
There's always one you can't forget see also What's to become of me?
To whom it may concern, 1942
Two see Multiple titles
Two concert etudes for the piano: The spider and the fly; The Mosquito, 1943
The undeserving poor
Valse
Vienna will sing again
Short score; 5 p.
Wait for me
What's to become of me?
Who is the lady?
Ya, ya, ya, they never go home
Multiple titles
Untitled pieces
Piano score; p. 10-17
Piano score; p. 2-4
Lead sheet; p. 2-3
Piano score; p. 4-6
Piano score; p. 2-6
Condensed score/sketch; [1] p.
String quartet/4 part arrangement; [2] p.
Violin part(?); [2] p.
3 lead sheets; [4] p.
Unmatched numbered pages
Piano score; p. 1, 3
Lead sheet; p. 2
Piano score/short score; p. 2
Piano score; p. 3
Piano-vocal score; p. 3
Piano score; p. 4 see also Blues in 3/4 time
Piano score; p. 4
Piano score; p. 5
Piano-vocal score; p. 6
Piano score; p. 6
Piano score; p. 10-11
Miscellaneous sketches and fragments; 14 leaves
Miscellaneous Personal Papers
Personal correspondence
Notes in Loewe's hand
ASCAP certificate, signed by Morton Gould and Stanley Green, 1970 Sept. 17
Eulogy by Red Skelton
Various programs, invitations and tickets for Loewe related events; 7 items
Admissions information for Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
“A time of social transfusion”; odd writing, may be in Loewe’s hand; [1] p.
Kennedy Center Honors 1985: bound item including: calendar, photographs, bios
“Kennen Sie den?”; typed anecdote in German
On the street where I live; proof copy of Alan Jay Lerner’s autobiography
Loewe’s New York office telephone book, disbound, approximately 330 p.
Clippings
Photographs
FL portraits, 7"x9" (2)e
FL standing with basket, 5"x10", right half torn off
Photocopy of FL at piano
FL with Alan Jay Lerner, 8"x10"
Photos of portraits of FL by James Montgomery Flagg (2), 1 of unidentified woman (1946), possibly wife Ernestine Zwerleine
FL shaking hands with unidentified man, 8"x10"
FL horseback riding, 8"x10" (3), 2 with unidentified woman
Snapshots ca. 1963-1965, including FL on horse (3)
FL with unidentified at formal party, 8"x10" (2)
FL receiving plaque and smashing target, 8"x10" (2)
Snapshots of FL with unidentified (2)
FL with cast of German production of My fair lady, 7"x8" (2)
FL receiving honorary degree, 8"x10" (6)
Snapshots on the Riviera and yacht (53)
Snapshots, many with FL, various locales (65)
Snapshots, FL and Palms Springs home (72)
Snapshots, FL and Palms Springs home (210)
Snapshots, last known photos of FL (33) with negatives
Palm Springs home exterior, 8"x10" in color
Aerial photos (2)
Slides of exterior (2)
Business Papers
Appraisal of manuscript score of My fair lady, 1965 Apr. 23
Draft of affidavit of Frederick Loewe re Greater Palm Springs Development Co., 1965 Oct. 21
Tamarisk Country Club correspondence, 1966
Deposition of Frederick Loewe, 1969 Apr. 25
Agreements with Franklin Mint Corporation, 1984 Mar. 30 and July 3
Camelot tour schedule, 1986
Copy codicil of Frederick Loewe (will), 1986 June 19
Copy codicil of Frederick Loewe (will), 1987 Oct. 5
Appraisal report of the Loewe estate, 1988 Apr. 27
Bound typescript, photographs; approximately [100] p.
Deductible Charities
Desert Hospital
Instrument of irrevocable gift, 1969 Dec. 15
Correspondence, notes, brochures, 1965-1986, undated
Eisenhower Medical Center
Correspondence, 1969-1971
Palm Springs Desert Museum
Correspondence, 1969-1976
University of Redlands
Correspondence, 1966-1975
Correspondence and other papers, 1964-1985, undated
Appraisals/valuations of portfolio, 1981-1987
Contracts, bills, proposals re house modeling, 1963
Correspondence with attorney Benjamin Aslan, 1965-1987