Stolen Manuscripts Donated to Juilliard
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A collection of manuscripts and musical scores stolen from Arthur Rubinstein’s Paris apartment by the Nazis has been donated to the Juilliard School by the pianist’s family.
The Nazis stole the material from Rubinstein’s music library in 1940, and took it to Berlin. The Soviets took control of the collection in 1945, returning some of the material to Germany in the late 1950s. Experts began going through the items in recent years to figure out where it belonged, and returned it to Rubinstein’s heirs last year.
Rubinstein died in 1982.
The collection, featuring 71 items including original scores from other composers autographed for Rubinstein, will be kept at Juilliard as The Arthur Rubinstein Music Collection and available to scholars.
A ceremony was planned for tonight to mark the collection’s arrival at the school.
