Remy Muller scrapbook
Scope and Contents
The collection includes typescript letters to Muller's wife Elizabeth Bodie ("Bee") as well as postcards, photographs, and memorabilia.
Dates
- Creation: 1931
Creator
- Muller, Remy, 1894-1978 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research
Biographical / Historical
Remy Muller, a World War II veteran who worked at the John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia (1917-1959), was admitted as a student of the Curtis Institute of Music to study campanology in the 1931-32 schoolyear. Part of the curriculum from 1929 to 1933, the subject was taught by Anton Brees, carillonneur of the Bok Singing Tower in the Mountain Lake Sanctuary, Florida. Remy Muller was the carillonneur of Trinity Reformed Church, Philadelphia (1929-1949) and of St. Vincent's Seminary (now the Miraculous Medal Shrine) in Germantown, Philadelphia (1947-1969), and performed at Valley Forge (Valley Forge, PA), the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception (Washington D.C.), the Netherlands Carillon (Arlington, VA), and at Trinity College (Hartford, CT).
Biographical / Historical
The scrapbook was compiled as a gift to Mary Louise Curtis Bok, whose husband Edward Bok had founded the Bok Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower.
Extent
0.2 Linear feet ((1) volume)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The scrapbook chronicles a six-week visit by Remy Muller to the Bok Singer Tower
Subject
- Muller, Remy, 1894-1978 (Person)
- Title
- Remy Muller scrapbook (MSS 44)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kristina Wilson
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Edition statement
- revised 2017
Repository Details
Part of the Curtis Institute of Music Archives Repository