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Peter Lund Jr. Collection

|| About the Collection ||

Peter J. Lund, Jr. became interested in the history of the zither through his grandfather, who had taught the instrument in Germany in the late 1800s. As a youth in Ohio he studied the instrument and began acquiring music. While working for the U.S. government in the 1950s he went to Germany where he searched for zither players and music, often buying whole collections. He notes in his letter to the Library, “While the zither has always been played in Europe as a house-instrument for folk-music, there was a time known as the Golden Age of Zither when there thrived a number of great virtuosos who composed serious works for zither and improved the state of the art. . .a cross-section of this type of music can be found with this collection.”

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General

Span Dates: c1850-1950
Bulk Dates: 1900-1950
Major Language(s): German
Repository: Music Division, Library of Congress

Physical Collection

Number of Items: 350
Number of Containers: 7
Linear Feet: 3
Contents: 17 Zither Instructor books (Darr, Enslein, Lerche Umlauf and others), Zither Albums (Maurer, Spindler, Gratzl, Lerche, and others), 20 printed music books, including Albums of Zither duets, Music for Zither (Umlauf, 24 works, Kollmaneck, 8 works, Stattler, Schiffel, Huber, 20 works, Enslein, 26 and Haustein 23 works) and Zither opera arias. Monograph of Die Zither by Viktor Nikl.
Processing History: Unprocessed, but easy to use. Complete list of works given by author listed according to type and genre is included in collection
Provenance: Gift of Peter F. Lund, Jr., in 1981

Access/Copyright

Access Permissions: Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
Copyright Info: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
Preferred Citation: Peter Lund, Jr. Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

Subject(s)

Instruments: Other