Stefan Bardas Collection, 1961-1981

By Maristella Feustle

Collection Overview

Title:	Stefan Bardas Collection, 1961-1981
ID:	06/ 096
Primary Creator:	Bardas, Stefan (1915-2008)
Extent:	1.0 Boxes
Date Acquired:	04/27/2015
Subjects:	Piano. University of North Texas. College of Music
Languages:	English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection consists of reel-to-reel recordings of Stefan Bardas' performances as a concert pianist.

Biographical Note

Stefan Bardas was born in Berlin, Germany on June 27, 1914. Bardas was from a musical family; his father was pianist Willi Bardas, and his mother, Therese, was a singer. Stefan Bardas studied piano with Edwin Fischer, Artur Schnabel, and Ignaz Friedman, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Alfredo Casella. His studies in Italy allowed him to exit Germany and survive the Holocaust. He then relocated to the United States in 1938, and was director of the music department at Carroll College in Helena, Montana from 1939 until 1942, when he became head of the piano department at Illinois Wesleyan University. He was appointed as professor of music at Northwestern University in 1944, and from 1947 until 1950, he was the official pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, serving as soloist in premiere performances under conductors including Artur Rodziński, Ernest Ansermet, and Rafael Kubelík. He made his debut at Town Hall in New York in 1949, and in 1952 became artist in residence at the University of Tulsa.

Bardas joined the faculty of what is now the University of North Texas in 1954, and retired in 1980. He was renowned for his performance of the entire set of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas. After retiring from North Texas, he also taught at El Paso Community College and New Mexico State University at Las Cruces. Stefan Bardas died in El Paso, Texas, on April 29, 2008.

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Collection is housed in the UNT Music Library. Advance notice for use is required. Please contact the Music Library for further information.

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Administrative Information

Repository:	Music Library
Acquisition Source:	Nicholas Isaacs
Acquisition Method:	Gift.

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Box 1: 1961-1981 All

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Box 1: 1961-1981 Request Reading Room Access

Barcode: 697647
- Item 1: Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 14, No. 2; Op. 90, 1961 October 5 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Labeled "#5," "F61-3p1, "C II p1." "Good recording."
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 2: Beethoven Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3 in E-flat major, 1961 October 5 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  "This portion of the tape was unusable because of its small size." Marked "#6," "F61-3p2," "C II p2."
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 3: Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 54; Op. 101, 1961 October 26 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  "Good recording." Marked "#8," recorded at the NTSU School of Music. "F61-5p2" on container spine.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 4: Lecture recital, Beethoven Sonata Op. 110, 1965 July 27 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
- Item 5: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 1 of 4. Mozart Sonata in D, K. 576.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 6: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 2 of 4. Franz Schubert, Impromptu; Karl Maria von Weber, Rondo; Felix Mendelssohn, Song without Words; Robert Schumann, Toccata.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 7: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 3 of 4. Franz Liszt, Three Transcendental Etudes.
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 8: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Frederic Chopin, Sonata in B minor, Op. 58.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 9: Frederic Chopin, Twelve Etudes, Op. 10, 1967 April 13 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Marked "III."
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 10: 1968 October 6 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 1. From "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 11: 1968 October 13 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 3. From "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 14, No. 2, and Op. 53.
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 12: 1968 October 27 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 1. From "'North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 13: 1968 November 3 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 1 of 2. From "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 2, No. 3, and Op. 54.
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 14: 1968 November 3 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 2 of 2. "From 'North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 110, Op. 79, and Op. 27, No. 2.
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 15: 1968 November 24 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 2. From "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 49, No. 2, and Op. 31, No. 3.
  Program at UNT Digital Library.
- Item 16: 1971 June 17 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 17: 1973 September 16 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Contents: Beethoven Sonata, B-flat major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier; Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, Rubenstein Etudes; Chopin Op. 25, No. 2; Op. 10 No. 12; end of Op. 106.
- Item 18: University of Texas at Dallas, Recital #3, 1973 October 21 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Contents: Beethoven Sonatas Op. 27, No. 1; Op. 10, No. 3; Op. 101; Op. 49, No. 1; Op. 13.
- Item 19: 1974 April 17 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Program in container differs from date on box.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 20: 1975 February 9 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Tape 1. Additional performance of "'North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 10, No. 1.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 21: 1975 February 16 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Tape 2. Additional performance of 'North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 79, Op. 13.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 22: 1975 February 23 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Tape 2 of 3. (Tape 1 not present.) Additional performance of 'North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 49, No. 1; Op. 13.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 23: 1975 February 23 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Tape 3 of 3. Additional performance of "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 110.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 24: 1975 March 2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Additional performance of "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 14, No. 1.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 25: 1975 March 9 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Tape 2. Additional performance of "North Texas State University Presents Stefan Bardas, Resident Pianist, Performing the 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven."
  Contains Beethoven Op. 109, Op. 28.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 26: Mendelssohn Trio, 1975 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
- Item 27: 1976 October 19 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 28: Music from North Texas Program No. 12, 1977 March 19 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Contains Beethoven Concert No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra, first movement. With NTSU Symphony, Anshel Brusilow, conductor.
- Item 29: 1978 January 24 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Part 1 of 2.
  Program in UNT Digital Library.
- Item 30: Guest artist recital, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981 October 22 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 2 of 3. Franz Schubert, Sonata in A major, opus posthumous.
- Item 31: Guest artist recital, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981 October 22 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Reel 3 of 3. Claude Debussy, Six Etudes (Book II); Franz Liszt, Reminiscences de Norma (Fantasy on themes from the Opera by Bellini).
- Item 32: Rubenstein etudes, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  "Tape ruined."
- Item 34: Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5., undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Marked "#30" and "II" on container, recorded at NTSU School of Music. Same packaging as previous item. "F61-8p2" on container spine.
- Item 35: "Singing," "Hogan's Heroes", undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Container spine labeled F61-7p1.
- Item 36: No content information, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  "191" on container spine.
- Item 37: No content information, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Blue container spine, Scotch brand.
- Item 38: Beethoven Op. 2, Op. 81a, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services
  
  Container spine marked "A-140," "III," and "2-9."
- Item 39: Chamber recital Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Stefan Bardas Collection, 1961-1981

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Box 1: 1961-1981 Request Reading Room Access

Item 1: Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 14, No. 2; Op. 90, 1961 October 5 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 2: Beethoven Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3 in E-flat major, 1961 October 5 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 3: Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 54; Op. 101, 1961 October 26 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 4: Lecture recital, Beethoven Sonata Op. 110, 1965 July 27 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 5: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 6: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 7: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 8: Faculty recital, 1966 February 15 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 9: Frederic Chopin, Twelve Etudes, Op. 10, 1967 April 13 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 10: 1968 October 6 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 11: 1968 October 13 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 12: 1968 October 27 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 13: 1968 November 3 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 14: 1968 November 3 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 15: 1968 November 24 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 16: 1971 June 17 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 17: 1973 September 16 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 18: University of Texas at Dallas, Recital #3, 1973 October 21 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 19: 1974 April 17 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 20: 1975 February 9 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 21: 1975 February 16 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 22: 1975 February 23 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 23: 1975 February 23 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 24: 1975 March 2 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 25: 1975 March 9 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 26: Mendelssohn Trio, 1975 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 27: 1976 October 19 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 28: Music from North Texas Program No. 12, 1977 March 19 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 29: 1978 January 24 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 30: Guest artist recital, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981 October 22 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 31: Guest artist recital, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981 October 22 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 32: Rubenstein etudes, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 34: Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5., undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 35: "Singing," "Hogan's Heroes", undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 36: No content information, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 37: No content information, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 38: Beethoven Op. 2, Op. 81a, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

Item 39: Chamber recital Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

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