Aaron Copland's paternal grandparents, 1899
front row: grandmother Frieda kaplan; grandfather Sussman Alexander Kaplan; Copland's aunt Fanny. Back row: Copland's aunts Lillian and Rose.
Aaron Copland at the age of 9 with his sister Josephine, 1910-1911
Copland/Perlis dates this photograph as "1909," when Copland would have been seven going on eight. Copland's own note on the back of the photo reads "Copland at the age of nine, with his sister Josephine."
Aaron Copland and his landlady, Fountainebleau, early 1920s
Copland's note on the back of the photo reads: "Me and my landlady in front of our doorstep -- 196 Rue St. Merry. Fountainebleau -- July 1921"
Aaron Copland's dwelling in Fountainebleau, early 1920s.
Copland's note on the back of the photo reads "Picture of the Rue Saint Merry. The cross marks my house, and the circle is under my windows. This was taken at 12 noon, not what you'd call a business street, is it?"
Aaron Copland's parents Harris and Sarah Copland, 1922
Copland's note on verso of photograph: "Ma & Pa -- at retirement age before store on Wash. Av. B[roo]klyn (ca. 1921)" Copland/Perlis identifies the photo as being taken "during the final sale before their retir... More
Nadia Boulanger and her class, Paris, 1923
from left to right: Eyvind Hesselberg; unidentified; Robert Delaney; unidentified; Nadia Boulanger; Aaron Copland; Mario Braggiotti; Melville Smith; unidentified; Armand Marquint. [note for editor: Copland/Perl... More
Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, and Herbert Elwell at Na...
from left to right: Thomson, Piston, Elwell, Copland.
Aaron Copland with landlady and dog, Königstein, Germany, 1927
Copland's ink note on back reads "This is me with the hausfrau and the dog." Later he adds in pencil "Konigstein [no umlaut], 1927 Germany"
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nicolas Slonimsky, May 13, 1928
[Copland-Sessions Concerts stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 5, 1936.
[Hotel Lafayette [N.Y.] stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, May 24, 1948
[River Road/Palisades, New York stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, April 30, 1944.
[Harvard University / Department of Music stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Natalie Koussevitzky, undated.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Introducing Shostakovitch at Dinner
[lecture/speech]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, December 1, 1944.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, undated.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Harold Spivacke, February 24, 1945.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, June 15, 1954.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, December 16, 1957.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, November 22, 1961.
[Rock Hill stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to William Strickland, undated.
[Berkshire Music Center stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, July 10, 1964.
[Rock Hill stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, July 11, 1944.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Sergei Koussevitzky, March 5, 1942.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, May 23, 1937
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving and Verna Fine, March 19, 1954.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Verna Fine, March 5, 1963.
[Rock Hill stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, November 12, 1957.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to William Strickland, January 10, 1943.
[Hotel Empire stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland, 1978.
statement on the death of Carlos Chávez
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, December 18, 1962.
[Rock Hill stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, December 11, 1962.
[Rock Hill stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Harold Spivacke, June 8, 1943
[Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Nadia Boulanger, December 6, 1978.
[1538 L. Washington Street stationery]
![Special Fondness for B.B. [Benjamin Britten]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvc3BlY2lhbC1mb25kbmVzcy1mb3ItYmItYmVuamFtaW4tYnJpdHRlbi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/52/webp "Special Fondness for B.B. [Benjamin Britten]")
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, October 27, 1954.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, September 17, 1953.
[Hotel de Cortes, Mexico City stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, November 14, 1930.
[Hotel Montclair stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Louis Kaufman, July 17, 1946.
[Heaton Hall, Stockbridge stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Mary Lescaze, 1954.
[Shady Lane Farm stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, September 27, 1947.
[Instituto Brasil -- Estados Unidos (Rio de Janeiro) stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Serge Koussevitzky, October 4, 1930
[Yaddo stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Irving Fine, July 1954.
[Berkshire music Center stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Benjamin Britten, September 23, 1959.
Shady Lane stationery
Letter from Aaron Copland to Olga Naoumoff, undated.
[Copland-Sessions Concerts stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, October 25, 1944
[Hotel Montejo / Mexico stationery]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Natalie Koussevitzky, April 25, 1930.
[Copland-Sessions Concerts stationery]
Appalachian Spring
[lecture/speech]
Letter from Aaron Copland to Carlos Chávez, June 13, 1955.
[Pont-Royal-Hotel, Paris stationery]