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John Wolmut collection

ca. 1905-1945

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• Administrative information
• Key terms
• Using the collection

Creator

Wolmut, John

Call number

JPB 87-2

Physical description

.6 linear feet (2 boxes)

Language

Wolmut's writings chiefly in German with some in English. Operas in German and Italian, German and English, and German with some English text handwritten in ink

Preferred Citation

John Wolmut collection, Music Division, The New York Public Library

Repository

Music Division

Access to materials

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Under the name of his birth Hans Wohlmuth, John Wolmut was a stage director for City Center Opera ca. 1945. He emigrated from Austria in 1938 and taught at Mannes and Curtis Institute before going to the Midwest in 1947. Four published piano-vocal scores of operas with Wolmut's holograph stage directions interleaved and with mounted typescript notes and markings by Wolmut.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

4 vocal scores: Gift to New York City Opera sent to NYPL by Lucy B. Farnsworth, Wolmut, Felice

Key terms

Names

• [Wolmut, John](/controlaccess/36762?term=Wolmut, John)
• [Albert, Eugen d', 1864-1932](/controlaccess/9463?term=Albert, Eugen d', 1864-1932)
• [Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918](/controlaccess/8677?term=Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918)
• [Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868](/controlaccess/18555?term=Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868)
• [Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893](/controlaccess/22501?term=Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893)
• [American Music Collection](/controlaccess/3425?term=American Music Collection)
• [City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)](/controlaccess/18680?term=City Center of Music and Drama %28New York, N. Y.%29)

Subjects

• [Opera -- Production and direction](/controlaccess/7260?term=Opera -- Production and direction)
• [Stage directions](/controlaccess/22499?term=Stage directions)
• [Wohlmuth, Hans](/controlaccess/22500?term=Wohlmuth, Hans)

Material types

• [Musical scores](/controlaccess/5611?term=Musical scores)

Using the collection

Location

Music Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor