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Arthur Gottschalk Academic and Professional Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0091
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586. Box 12 is stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains copies of autograph scores, lecture notes, articles, and programs from composer Arthur Gottschalk's academic and professional files. The materials in the collection date from 1964 through 2019.

Dates

  • 1964 - 2019

Access Restrictions

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586. Box 12 is stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Conditions Governing Access

These materials are open for research except for one folder of professional papers. Access to this folder requires written permission from Professor Gottschalk. Contact Woodson staff for instructions at woodson@rice.edu or 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from the Arthur Gottschalk Academic and Professional papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical / Historical

Arthur Gottschalk attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition, a Master of Arts degree in Music Composition and English Literature, and his Doctorate in Music Composition, studying with William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett. He is currently a Professor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he served as Chair of the Department of Music Theory and Composition until 2009. He founded the university’s electronic and computer music laboratories, and was the Director of the laboratories until 2002.

“Rapturous, argumentative, and prickly” (Gramophone Magazine), and “fascinatingly strange” (BBC Music Magazine), composer Arthur Gottschalk accepted an invitation as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016, and The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with its Meritorious Service Award, the highest honor for a non-graduate of Rice University. Among many other awards, his Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds won First Prize in the XXV Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Italy), and in 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for further work in Italy. Other awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2014 Gold Medal for his Sonata for Cello: In Memoriam and the 2015 Gold Medal, Best of Show, and Recording of the Year from the Global Music Awards for his Requiem: For The Living. Residencies include the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

(Biography taken from Gottschalk's Shepherd School of Music website)

Extent

14.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Overview

This collection contains copies of autograph scores, lecture notes, articles, and programs from composer Arthur Gottschalk's academic and professional files. The materials in the collection date from 1964 through 2019.
Title
Guide to the Arthur Gottschalk Academic and Professional papers, 1964-2019
Status
Completed
Author
Dara Flinn
Date
2016
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA