Hans Moldenhauer Collection 1961-1979

This collection contains material pertaining to books that Hans Moldenhauer wrote about the composer Anton Webern. There are clippings from the New York Times with a review of this book and Webern music festivals; followed by correspondence between Moldenhauer and Martin Heiman regarding his book. Accompanying this materials is a copy of the cover and inside flap of Moldenhauer's book "The Death of Anton Weber".The musicologist Hans Moldenhauer (1906-1987) was born in Germany. He studied in Mainz before immigrating to the USA in 1939. After further studies he became director and then president of the Spokane Conservatory (WA) and lecturer at the University of Washington. Moldenhauer's most important contribution to scholarship was his work about the Austrian composer and conductor Anton Webern (1883-1945).Processed for digitizatio