Radie Britain musical compositions, 1936-1948

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Summary

Creators:
Britain, Radie
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet (1 flat box )
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Radie Britain Musical Compositions (Collection PASC-M 89). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of published editions and reproductions of musical works for harp, piano, violin and piano, voice and piano, and for chorus.

Biographical / historical:

Composer Radie Britain was born March 17, 1899 in Silverton, Texas. She studied piano at the American Conservatory, Chicago, graduating in 1921. She then traveled to Europe, studying composition, theory, and organ in France and Germany, and returned to the United States in 1926. Britain taught at the Girvin Institute of Music and the Chicago Conservatory in the 1920s and 1930s. She moved to California in 1939, eventually settling in Los Angeles, where she continued to compose and also taught composition.

A number of Britain's compositions received awards and her Heroic Poem won the Julliard National Publication Prize in 1945. She died May 23, 1994 in Riverside, California.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Radie Britain, 1948.
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Physical location:
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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Radie Britain Musical Compositions (Collection PASC-M 89). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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