Collection 86-M

Nina Koshetz Collection of Song and Aria Arrangements

Koshetz was born on Dec. 30, 1894 in Kiev; studied piano as a child, then began to study singing; toured Russia with Sergei Rachmaninoff, singing his songs; came to the U.S. after the Bolshevik Revolution; appeared as a soloist with major American orchestras, and sang recitals of Russian songs; came to Calif. in 1941 and devoted herself to teaching; she died on May 14, 1965 in Santa Ana, Calif.

Collection consists of manuscripts scores, or scores and parts, of arrangements of songs and arias, primarily from Russian operas, arranged by Leonid Raab, including selections from Rimsky-Korsakov's The tsar's bride, Tchaikovsky's Pique dame, Borodin's Prince Igor, Rachmaninoff's Glory to God, Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla, Mussorgsky's The fair at Sorotchinsk, Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and his songs "The rose has charmed the nightingale" and "Au printemps."

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