Oral history interview with Sigmund Spaeth, 1958.

Biographical Note

Music editor, writer, teacher

Scope and Contents

Education and musical background; career as editor, lecturer, writer and promoter: G.Schirmer, the American Piano Company; piano playing as an historical phenomenon, piano rolls, player pianos; views on ragtime, musical theater, rock and roll, barbershop quartets, patriotic songs

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Music--Editing.
• Music--United States.
• Music critics--Interviews.
• Music editors--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Piano--Performance.
• Popular music.
• Spaeth, Sigmund, 1885-1965--Interviews.

Access Conditions

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