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Helmut Blume Fonds
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CA MUA MG1020
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3 cm of textual records.
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(1914-1998)
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Helmut Blume was born in Berlin, Germany on April 12th,1914. He was educated at the University of Berlin (1932-1933) and the Berlin Academy of Music (1933-1938). He immigrated to Canada and spent the early years of the War in the civilian internment camp in Sherbrooke. From 1942 to 1943 he studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and in 1946 he joined the staff of McGill's Faculty of Music as a piano instructor. As Dean (1963-1976), Blume presided over an exceptional period of expansion in the Faculty's history. He was also a regular contributor to CBC programs as a pianist, writer, composer and commentator, and is the author of numerous short stories and reviews. Blume passed away on October 16th, 1998.
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Fonds comprises photocopies of three works for the piano, which Blume described as "meine gesammelten Werke" ("my collected works"). Two of these – an arrangement of the "Emperor Waltz", and "Variations on an American Folk-Song" – were written in the Sherbrooke Internment Camp in 1942. The third, "Picture book for Veronika" was written later that year in Toronto.
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Material in English.