Scope and Contents
The collection contains original scores and published music of musical comedies, short operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and other songs, scrapbooks, and music recordings.
The collection contains forty five original scores. Most of the songs and orchestral pieces in the collection were written prior to 1938. A quintet for clarinet, piano, and strings, a cantata, and an overture were written later, in the United States.
The collection contains material in English and German.
The collection is arranged in four series:
Series I contains original compositions in manuscript form, alphabetized by title. Entries often contain notes, rehearsal marks, and other corrections.
Series II contains five scores of published music, organized by title of work.
Series III contains five volumes of scrapbooks (and also loose papers) that include programs, reviews, poems, letters, posters and a script.
Series IV contains recordings of two works, "Little Suite for Orchestra," and a quintet for clarinet, piano, and strings.
Dates
- 1913-1966
Creator
- Heller, Hans Ewald (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time. Collection includes sound recordings, moving images, and digital files to which access is restricted. Access to these materials is governed by repository policy and may require the production of listening or viewing copies. Researchers requiring access must notify Special Collections and University Archives in advance and pay fees for reproduction services as necessary.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Hans Ewald Heller (1894-1966) was a composer, pianist, writer, and music critic. He was born in Vienna and educated at the University of Vienna. He was a music critic for the journals Wiener Zeitung and Neues Wiener. He fled Vienna in 1938 and came to the United States, where he taught, edited, created film music and was music director for "Hearst Metrotone News," a newsreel series.
Extent
6 linear feet (5 containers)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Hans Ewald Heller (1894-1966) was a composer, pianist, writer, and music critic. The collection contains original scores and published music of musical comedies, short operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and other songs, scrapbooks, and music recordings.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series:
Series I: Original Compositions in Manuscript
Series II: Published Music
Series III: Scrapbooks and loose papers
Series IV: Tapes
Other Finding Aids
Paper finding aid with additional information is available in Special Collections & University Archives.
Physical Description
3 record storage boxes, 1 oversize flat box and 1 oversize folder
Processing Information
Collection processed by Edmund F. Soule, music librarian, University of Oregon, 1967.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection received a basic level of processing including minimal organization and rehousing.
Description information is drawn in part from information supplied with the collection and initial surveys of the contents.
- Composers -- Austria Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Composers -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.
- Heller, Hans Ewald
- Heller, Hans Ewald
- Music Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Music -- Manuscripts -- Austria Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Music -- Manuscripts -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Scores Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Hans Heller Papers
- Status
- Revise Description
- Author
- University of Oregon Libraries, Archivists' Toolkit Project Team and Tanya Parlet.
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
