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Re: Wesley Kuhnle

🔗Daniel Wolf <djwolf@snafu.de>

3/18/2000 1:35:08 AM

I was very pleased to discover the following:

http://www.csulb.edu/~parayner/OralHistory.html

The Wesley Kuhnle Repository has been reported in the Music Library
Association NOTES (September, 1976, pp. 16-26). Briefly, it documents the
career of Wesley Kuhnle (1898-1962), a Southern California performing
musician who turned to research in early keyboard music. The Repository
shows three specific concentrations: 1) his career as a performing musician
and private music teacher; 2) his research on historic tunings and
temperaments for keyboard music from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth
centuries; and 3) his work on performance practices for early keyboard
music. The Repository has been cited by Owen Jorgensen in his book, Tuning
the Historical Temperaments by Ear, (No. Michigan University Press, 1977).
The Repository contains fifty-six magnetic tapes relating to items 1 and 2
above; correspondence including a complete set of letters from Kuhnle's
study-tour to Berlin in 1923; 3) concert announcements, programs and
reviews, 1921-1962; 4) musical arrangements and original compositions; 5)
biographical records; 6) photographs, both personal of Kuhnle and his
colleagues, particularly Henry Cowell and Richard Buhlig, as well as
photographs of his mustcal instruments; 7) Kuhnle's personal llbrary; and 8)
miscellaneous materials.