UCSB Special Collections: Performing Arts: Emma Lou Diemer Papers

Diemer (Emma Lou) Papers. 1940s-2001.
(PA Mss 41)

Emma Lou Diemer

Personal papers of composer, organist and emeritus professor of composition at UCSB. Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1927, she began composing at an early age and later studied composition at Yale and the Eastman School. Her teachers included Hindemith, Bernard Rogers, Hanson, Toch and Sessions.

The collection includes many of her manuscript scores, business correspondence and royalty statements, programs, review and clippings. Many of Diemer's published scores are available at the UCSB Arts Library. The inventory for the collection is available on the Online Archive of California

Diemer taught composition at UCSB from 1971-1991 and founded the school's electronic music studio. A prolific and virtuosic composer, she is the recipient of both NEA and Fullbright fellowships, ASCAP Standard Awards, a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, and the 1995 AGO Composer of the Year Award. She continues to receive numerous commissions as well as give recitals.

The following web site on Emma Lou Diemer may be of interest:

Sigma Alpha Iota Composers Bureau

Diemer (Emma Lou) Papers. 1940s-2001. (PA Mss 41)

Diemer (Emma Lou) Papers. 1940s-2001.
(PA Mss 41)