Hans and Rosaleen Moldenhauer, Vienna. 1979 About this image
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The ardent music collector and mountain climber Hans Moldenhauer was born in Mainz, Germany, in 1906, and died in 1987. Over the course of forty years he established the Moldenhauer Archives, a rich resource of musical documents that encompasses music history from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. The collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, and many others. Also included is historically important correspondence, such as letters of Metastasio and Handel. Some composers (Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, for example) are represented by numerous manuscripts. A sample of other composers, musicians, and literary figures that are represented by both music and nonmusical materials includes George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner, Charles Burney, Feruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Hermann Hesse, György Ligeti, Federico Garcia Lorca, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino.
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General
- Span Dates
- 1000-1987
- Bulk Dates
- 1600-1950
- Major Language(s)
- German, Italian, Latin, English, French, Spanish
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 3600
- Number of Containers
- 131
- Linear Feet
- 206
- Contents
- Music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings.
- Processing History
- Processed
- Provenance
- Gift, Hans Moldenhauer. Bequest, Hans Moldenhauer, 1987. Gift, Mary Moldenhauer, 1988
Access/Copyright
- Access Permissions
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
- Copyright Info
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Preferred Citation
- Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress
Subject(s)
- Chamber Music
- Choral Music
- Instruments: Piano
- Instruments: Strings
- Opera
- Orchestra
- Sacred Music
- Song
- Women in the Performing Arts