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    Irving Fine collection, 1930-1993 Irving Fine was an American conductor, teacher, and composer whose works assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. The bulk of the materials in the collection are musical scores and sketches which represent nearly his entire musical output. In addition, there are photographs, clippings, programs, and scrapbooks, as well as correspondence from twentieth-century musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Alberto Ginastera, Ned...
    • Contributor: Fine, Irving
    • Date: 1930
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    Glenn Dillard Gunn papers, 1802-1961 Glenn Dillard Gunn was an American pianist, conductor, music critic, and teacher. The collection contains correspondence from notable musical figures such as Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Careño, Percy Grainger, and Moriz Rosenthal, as well as writings by and about Gunn, photographs, annotated printed scores, scrapbooks, and other items that document Gunn's life and career.
    • Contributor: Gunn, Glenn Dillard - Carreño, Teresa - Grainger, Percy - Rosenthal, Moriz - Busoni, Ferruccio
    • Date: 1802
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    Jerome Kern collection, 1905-1951 The collection consists primarily of Kern's show music and holograph sketches, most of which are manuscript full and vocal scores of Kern's orchestrators and arrangers, especially Frank Saddler and Robert Russell Bennett. Film and other music is also represented, as well as a small amount of correspondence.
    • Contributor: Bennett, Robert Russell - Kern, Jerome - Saddler, Frank - Bordman, Gerald Martin
    • Date: 1905
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    Aaron Copland collection, 1841-1991 The Aaron Copland Collection consists of published and unpublished music by Copland and other composers, correspondence, writings, biographical material, datebooks, journals, professional papers including legal and financial material, photographs, awards, art work, and books. Of particular interest is the correspondence with Nadia Boulanger, which extent over 50 years, and with his long-time friend, Harold Clurman. Other significant correspondents are Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Benjamin...
    • Contributor: Kraft, Victor - Copland, Aaron
    • Date: 1841
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    Serge Koussevitzky archive, 1880-1978 Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian-born conductor, composer, and double bassist. The archive includes correspondence, personal and business papers, photographs, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, programs, and other materials which serve as a record of Koussevitzky's life and career, and document some of the most significant aspects of twentieth-century music. Through his work as a conductor and publisher, and his efforts to commission new musical works, Koussevitzky...
    • Contributor: Koussevitzky, Olga - Koussevitzky, Serge
    • Date: 1880
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    Samuel P. Warren collection, 1849-1915 Samuel P. Warren (1841-1915) was an American organist, choral director, music editor, teacher, and composer. The collection consists of correspondence; concert, recital, and church service programs; and related materials documenting his performance career and, to a lesser extent, that of others.
    • Contributor: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Wagner, Richard - Strauss, Richard - Schubert, Franz - Saint-Saëns, Camille - Verdi, Giuseppe - Warren, Samuel P. (Samuel Prowse)
    • Date: 1849
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    Nicolas Slonimsky collection, 1873-1997 Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with...
    • Contributor: Slonimsky, Nicolas
    • Date: 1873
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    John Alden Carpenter collection, 1891-1961 John Alden Carpenter was an American composer. The collection contains music materials, primarily holograph manuscripts of Carpenter's songs, chamber and orchestral pieces, and dramatic works; correspondence; writings; photographs and artwork; biographical materials; certificates and honors; programs; clippings; and scrapbooks.
    • Contributor: Carpenter, John Alden
    • Date: 1891
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    Fritz Kreisler collection, 1845-1969 Fritz Kreisler was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. The collection contains Kreisler's original compositions in sketch, manuscript (including holographs), and printed form. In addition, it contains manuscript and heavily annotated printed copies of Kreisler's transcriptions of other composers' music. It also contains correspondence, financial and legal documents, programs, clippings, writings, photographs, awards and honors. The collection includes the papers of Kreisler's biographer Louis...
    • Contributor: Lochner, Louis Paul - Kreisler, Fritz
    • Date: 1845
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    Alberto Nepomuceno collection, 1887-1988 Alberto Nepomuceno was a Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher. The collection consists primarily of scores, most of which are photocopies of holographs, including two operas, nine orchestral, and twelve chamber and solo works, as well as approximately forty songs and other vocal works. In addition, the collection contains several photographs of the composer and his wife and other printed materials.
    • Contributor: Nepomuceno, Alberto
    • Date: 1887
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    Jacobo Ficher collection, 1864-1997 The collection comprises practically all the composer's works, mainly holograph manuscript scores in all major categories of composition. It also includes documents, correspondence (to and from Leonard Bernstein, Carlos Chávez, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Vivian Fine, Alberto Ginastera, Paul Kletzki, Nicolai Malko, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Rubinstein, Nicolas Slonimsky, Leopold Stokowski, and others), writings, programs, and scrapbooks.
    • Contributor: Ficher, Jacobo
    • Date: 1864
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    Ernst Bacon collection, 1898-1990 Ernst Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. Largely a self-taught composer, Bacon also became an esteemed administrator and educator, serving as director of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Music Project in 1935 and later as composer-in-residence at Syracuse University from 1947-1963. The collection contains music, writings, correspondence, iconography, programs, clippings, publicity materials, and other miscellaneous items.
    • Contributor: Bacon, Ernst
    • Date: 1898
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    Margaret ("Peggie") Dwight collection on Luigi Dallapiccola, 1936-1995 Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) was an Italian composer known for his twelve-tone compossitions. The collection contains Dallapiccola's correspondence with Margaret (Peggie) Dwight, including more than 300 letters (written mostly in French) as well as postcards and telegrams. In addition, there are more than 200 articles and programs relating to Dallapiccola's career, most of them collected during those years. The collection also includes a few of...
    • Contributor: Dallapiccola, Luigi - Dwight, Margaret
    • Date: 1936
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    Jascha Heifetz papers, 1786-1991 Russian-American musician Jascha Heifetz was a virtuosic violinist who became a dedicated teacher. The collection includes his personal music library of original compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions. Concert programs document his performances from 1911 to 1974, and photographs, photo albums, and scrapbooks span the violinist's entire life. The correspondence contains letters from significant twentieth-century musical figures such as Leopold Auer, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofiev, George...
    • Contributor: Heifetz, Jascha
    • Date: 1786
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    Ernest Bloch collection, 1888-1981 Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born composer, violinist, conductor, and photographer. The collection, which documents his life and work, includes manuscripts (music and lecture material), correspondence, business and financial papers, photographs, programs, promotional material, clippings, writings about Ernest Bloch, personal papers, and printed matter.
    • Contributor: Bloch, Ernest
    • Date: 1888
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    George and Böske Antheil papers, circa 1875-1984 George Antheil was a composer, pianist, author and inventor. The collection consists of materials related to the professional and personal activities of George Antheil and his wife, Elizabeth (Böske) Antheil. It contains holograph music manuscripts, printed scores, published and unpublished writings, business and personal correspondence, subject files, photographs, programs and promotional materials, scrapbooks, artwork, biographical materials, and memorabilia which document the life of this...
    • Contributor: Antheil, George - Antheil, Böske
    • Date: 1875
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    Serge Lifar collection on Serge Diaghilev, 1750-1950 This collection is comprised in large part of printed music, widely representing 18th century Italian and 19th century Russian operatic music. Includes rare pre-revolutionary editions of Russian folk songs, annotated performance scores of Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gounod, Cimarosa. Non-musical materials include three letters from S. Prokofiev to S. Diaghilev, rare edition of books on music, literature and theater, libretti and synopses, souvenir books and...
    • Contributor: Diaghilev, Serge - Prokofiev, Sergey - Lifar, Serge
    • Date: 1750
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    Moldenhauer archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-circa 1990 The Moldenhauer Archives consist of manuscript and printed music, correspondence, photographs, books, clippings, programs, and artwork dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century. The music includes holograph scores and sketches, as well as a number of copyist and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements. Represented musical and literary figures include, among many others, George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector...
    • Contributor: Moldenhauer, Hans
    • Date: 1000
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    Randolph S. Rothschild collection, 1942-1992 The Randolph S. Rothschild Collection consists primarily of music and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music in the collection is facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from American composers such as Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Ernst Krenek, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, and...
    • Contributor: Schuller, Gunther - Weisgall, Hugo - Foss, Lukas - Moss, Lawrence - Wuorinen, Charles - Babbitt, Milton - Lewis, Robert Hall - Cowell, Henry - Argento, Dominick - Shapey, Ralph ... Schuller, Gunther - Weisgall, Hugo - Foss, Lukas - Moss, Lawrence - Wuorinen, Charles - Babbitt, Milton - Lewis, Robert Hall - Cowell, Henry - Argento, Dominick - Shapey, Ralph - Kirchner, Leon - Reynolds, Roger - Rothschild, Randolph S. - Finney, Ross Lee - Druckman, Jacob - Rouse, Christopher - Krenek, Ernst
    • Date: 1942
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    Amateur Hour collection, 1934-1950s The Original Amateur Hour was a popular radio talent show hosted by Edward Bowes (stagename, Major Bowes) from 1935-1952. The collection primarily consists of more than 7,000 applications from contestants who appeared on the program between 1934 and 1948. A small amount of administrative papers dating from the late 1940s and 1950s, as well as materials relating to the Mexican version of the program,...
    • Contributor: Bowes, Edward, Major - Sinatra, Frank - Sills, Beverly - Brewer, Teresa - Kaye, Stubby - Merrill, Robert - Mack, Ted - Graham, Lewis
    • Date: 1934
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    Harold Bauer collection, 1886-1951 Harold Bauer was an English violinist and pianist, teacher, and music editor who corresponded with many musical luminaries of his day, including Ernest Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Pablo Casals, Gabriel Fauré, Percy Grainger, Jascha Heifetz, Josef Hofmann, Gustav Holst, Vincent d'Indy, Fritz Kreisler, Charles Martin Loeffler, Pierre Monteux, Moritz Moszkowski, Vladimir de Pachmann, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Isidore Philipp, Henry Prunières, Carl Ruggles, Carlos Salzedo, Gustave...
    • Contributor: Bauer, Harold
    • Date: 1886
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    William B. Bradbury collection, 1846-1928 Bradbury's secular music is represented by published vocal scores, some in photocopy, and probable holograph of Song of the South. Contains an album compiled by Bradbury in Europe (1847-1849) of autograph musical sketches by Franz Abt, Niels Gade, Joseph Joachim, Jenny Lind, Albert Lortzing, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Louis Spohr, Richard Wagner, and others; sketches by Felix Mendelssohn, Walter Damrosch,...
    • Contributor: Bradbury, William B. (William Batchelder)
    • Date: 1846
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    Julius Gold collection, 1858-1964 Manuscripts of Gold's theoretical writings, including unpublished translations of and commentaries on the writings of Bernhard Ziehn. Includes correspondence with colleagues Hans Joachim Moser, Lloyd Hibberd, and John Alden Carpenter; and students Winthrop Sargent, Frank Fragale, Meredith Willson, and Isaac Stern. The collection also contains programs, printed music, finanancial and legal papers, and photographs.
    • Contributor: Gold, Julius - Ziehn, Bernhard
    • Date: 1858
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    Carrie Jacobs-Bond collection, circa 1896-circa 1944 The Carrie Jacobs-Bond Collection consists of music manuscripts, papers, photographs, and other materials relating to the personal and professional life of American sentimental song composer Carrie Jacobs-Bond. The collection contains 37 music manuscripts (18 holographs), poetic and prose sketches, and typescripts of children's books and scripts. It includes correspondence, principally in the form of greeting cards, including one from the publisher Gustave Schirmer, a...
    • Contributor: Jacobs-Bond, Carrie
    • Date: 1896
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    Edward and Clara Steuermann collection, 1922-1981 Edward Steuermann (1892-1964) was a pianist, composer, and teacher; his wife Clara Steuermann (1922-1982) was a pianist and music librarian. The collection includes music manuscripts (holograph scores and sketches) and printed music, writings of Edward Steuermann, and correspondence of Edward and Clara Steuermann. The music includes most of Steuermann's compositions, his arrangements of works by Busoni, Poulenc, Schoenberg, Webern, and various 18th- and 19th-century...
    • Contributor: Eisler, Hanns - Schoenberg, Arnold - Kahn, Erich Itor - Leibowitz, René - Steuermann, Clara - Busoni, Ferruccio - Webern, Anton - Adorno, Theodor W. - Poulenc, Francis - Steuermann, Edward - Kim, Earl - Kolisch, Rudolf - Kolisch, Lorna
    • Date: 1922