THIS AUCTION IS FOR AN USED  VINTAGE LOT OF SEVERAL LETTERS WITH ENVELOPES "FROM COMPOSER RICHARD HOFFMAN (OBERLIN COLLEGE, THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC) TO ANN BASART (UC BERKELEY MUSIC LIBRARIAN) FROM THE YEAR 1955 (ALL LETTERS ARE FROM 1955)"  

A CLEAN LOT . SIX OF THE LETTERS ARE SENT FROM OBERLIN COLLEGE. TWO LETTERS SENT FROM HUNTINGTON HARTFORD FOUNDATION, PACIFIC PALISADES, CAL. ONE LETTER HAS THE HEADER MRS. GERTRUD SCHOENBERG.

ALL THE LETTERS ARE SENT TO ANN BASART. I AM A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED AS TWO LETTERS ARE SENT TO ANN PEARCE BUT THE ADRESS ON THE ENVELOPE AT ONE OF THE LETTERS CHANGED TO ANN BASART'S ADDRESS. WERE THEY THE SAME PERSON? ALSO ONE OF THE TWO LETTERS TO ANN PEARCE IS LIKE A LOVE LETTER.

ALSO THERE IS A FLYER ABOUT A FACULTY RECITAL AT OBERLIN COLLEGE. SEVERAL LETTERS ARE HAND WRITTEN BY HOFFMAN.

 From internet:

Richard Hoffmann (composer)

Richard Hoffmann (20 April 1925 – 24 June 2021) was an American composer, musicologist and educator. He served many years as a professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Early life

Hoffmann was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Richard and Emanuela Hoffmann. In 1935, the family emigrated to New Zealand, where Hoffmann subsequently received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Zealand in 1945.

Hoffmann went on to the USA in 1947, primarily to study composition with his cousin, Arnold Schoenberg (1948–1951). At the same time he also became Schoenberg's secretary and amanuensis.

Musical style

About the String Trio, which was begun in 1961 (Altmünster, Austria) and, after approximately a year's interruption, completed in 1963 (Los Angeles, California) the composer wrote:

The piece is in a single movement (approximately 15 minutes). The kaleidoscopic treatment of the musical substance in detail (fragmentation, juxtaposition, rotation); the confluence of a number of coequal contrasting sections (elision, dovetailing); the interaction of disparate elements; rhythmic dissonance; conflicting dynamics (even with sustained sonorities); the notation of each instrument on three staves (upper: sul ponticello or sul tasto, the middle: arco, the lower: pizzicato or col legno), and localized accelerandi and ritardandi – all are designed to create the maximum possible illusion of multidimensional movement and to emulate in sound the inherently unstable characteristics of a mobile. This is done without recourse to the arbitrariness and forced spontaneity of improvisation, but rather, within the paradoxical framework of rigid control and matrix-like construction.

Teaching career

Hoffmann began his career as a professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1954, where he worked until 2004. He was a visiting professor at the University of California in Berkeley from 1965 to 1966, at Victoria University in 1968, at Harvard University in 1970, at the University of Iowa in 1976 and at Vienna University in 1984.

Achievements

Hoffmann received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation Commission in 1960 (Orchestral Piece No. 2, 1961, Universal Edition, London (1963), UE13635LW) and National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1966. Also he was given a grant from National Education Association in 1976, 1978–1979 and Fulbright Foundation in 1984–1985.

Personal life

On December 21, 1957, Hoffmann married Joan Alfhild Flint. They have 3 children. Hoffman died in Oberlin, Ohio, on June 24, 2021, aged 96.

DETAILED BIO OF ANN BASART IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON INTERNET.

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