Robert Alexander (1883-1966)

[SV340450843]

Robert Alexander was an jewish-austrian composed born in Vienna in 1883, 2nd of May and died in New York in 1966, the 7th of may, 5 days after his birthday No.83.
Apart from having a long life, he also had a long compositional output, mostly unknown to most of the musicians of the 21 century. His pieces were written for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet, organ, harmoniu, choir, orchestra, voice, etc. Comprising genres as sonatas, concertos, études, préludes, religious music, chamber music, dance music, salon music, songs, operas, dramatic genres, etc.
I really appreciate this composer because his style remained romantic for his whole life and apparently never composed with impressionistic neither avant-garde tendencies. Being a guy over there in the New York of 1962 that was composing his last and 60th (!!!) piano sonata possibly in the style of Chopin, Schumann or Grieg when Elvis Presley was making his most sucesful songs is very rare and absolutely astonishing. He wasn't ahead to his time but neither he was wasting his time: he left us a prolific legacy of more than 400 pieces that want to be heared someday...

Btw, it's m first time posting. I haven't asked anything since I joined a year ago I think and I want to salute all guys here and to ask if anyone has more info about Alexander as my only souces of info are Internet Archive (where are his manuscripts), the Leo Baeck Institue collection that has his name, IMSLP, VIAF (2 items there don't help much...) and Geni. Thanks for reading!

[John Boyer]

The Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History has 4 boxes of papers stored on six reels of microfilm, more than what you indicated.  You'd probably need to examine this in person.

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/19269

[Gareth Vaughan]

The entire MS collection at the Institute has been digitised and the scores can be viewed online. Just follow the links in the Folders. What a wonderful resource!

[SV340450843]

Yeah, I absolutely downloaded the 6 files from IArchive and I'm in the process of uploading his works to IMSLP. The number of works is now 75, you can check here: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Alexander,_Robert
Definitively I think that there are some missing works but I'm also in the process of making an inveraty of the scores in every file. I have only 2 files left to process.