Robert Alexander Collection

Collection

Identifier: AR 3030 / MF 940

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

The bulk of the collection consists of music scores with Robert Alexander’s compositions. Also included are a short biographical abstract and a list of his compositions in the collection’s first folder.

Dates

Creation: 1897-1963

Creator

Alexander, Robert, 1883-1966 (Person)

Language of Materials

This collection is in German and English.

Access Restrictions

Open to researchers.

Access Information

Collection is digitized. Follow the links in the Container List to access the digitized materials.

Collection is microfilmed, please use MF 940.

Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Request" button.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:

Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org

Biographical Note

Robert Alexander was born 1883 in Vienna, Austria. He began his formal musical education at age nine and wrote his first composition at age 14 in 1897. In 1898 he began studying the organ at the Vienna Cäcilienverein. After fighting World War I in Russia, his musical career took off in 1919, when he gave a concert with his own compositions. In 1935 he was appointed choirmaster at St. Salvator in Vienna, and he served as an organist at the Vienna Augustinian church. He 1939 he immigrated to New York, where he continued his career as an organist and a composer. Robert Alexander died 1966 in New York.