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    American Conservatory at Fontainebleau records, 1922-2022 The American Conservatory at Fontainebleau was originally established in 1919 to improve the quality of United States military bands mobilized in France at the end of World War I. In 1921, the school opened to American civilians, welcoming music students for summer classes in the Louis XV wing of the Château de Fontainebleau. The School of Fine Arts was established in 1923, and architecture...
    • Contributor: Rawson, Thérèse Casadesus - Glass, Philip - Raposo, Joe - Tailleferre, Germaine - Grantham, Donald - Casadesus, Robert - Conservatoire Américain De Fontainebleau - Milhaud, Darius - Boulanger, Nadia - Hindemith, Paul ... Rawson, Thérèse Casadesus - Glass, Philip - Raposo, Joe - Tailleferre, Germaine - Grantham, Donald - Casadesus, Robert - Conservatoire Américain De Fontainebleau - Milhaud, Darius - Boulanger, Nadia - Hindemith, Paul - Makris, Andreas - Talma, Louise - Hailstork, Adolphus C. - Widor, Charles-Marie - Copland, Aaron - Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1922
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    Arne Oldberg collection, circa 1887-1962 American composer, musician, and music professor at Northwestern University. The collection contains music scores, parts, and sketches, including holograph and copyist manuscripts, published copies, and photocopies, of Oldberg's works; a considerable amount of correspondence; programs; and biographical materials.
    • Contributor: Oldberg, Arne
    • Date: 1887
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    Morton Gould papers, 1920-1996 American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. The collection contains music, including holograph and copyist manuscripts, printed scores, orchestral parts, lyric sheets, and sketches of Gould's compositions and arrangements; correspondence; business papers; writings; photographs; scrapbooks; programs and promotional materials related to his career; and financial and legal documents.
    • Contributor: Gould, Morton
    • Date: 1920
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    Alex North music for documentary film, theater, dance, and concert, 1910-1984 Alex North (1910-1991) was an American composer of music for feature films, dance, theater productions, and the concert hall. He brought a new and uniquely "American" sound to his works. The collection contains performance materials for dance works, incidental music for theater productions, songs, musical comedies and revues, and concert works. A small amount of scripts, promotional materials, and clippings are also included.
    • Contributor: Sokolow, Anna - North, Alex
    • Date: 1910
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    Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt papers, 1918-1942 Musician, inventor, and author. Correspondence, speeches, legal and financial records, draft of a book, biographical data, printed matter, and annotated photographs primarily relating to Greenewalt's invention of an art form called Nourathar (also Sarabet, Light-Score) that harmonized projected patterns of colored light with concert music.
    • Contributor: Greenewalt, Mary Elizabeth Hallock
    • Date: 1918
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    Laurindo Almeida papers, 1912-1995 Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian-American guitarist and composer. Often credited for contributions to the development of jazz samba, Almeida was a prolific composer and arranger of music for both classical Spanish guitar and popular guitar. He was an acclaimed recording artist and became the first person to win Grammy Awards for both classical and jazz performances. The collection contains manuscript and printed music, correspondence,...
    • Contributor: Fischer, Clare - Castro-Neves, Oscar - Almeida, Laurindo - De Azevedo, Lex - King, Pete
    • Date: 1912
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    John Herbert McDowell papers, 1908-1983 John Herbert McDowell was an avant-garde dance, theater, film, and concert music composer. The collection contains his holograph scores and sketches, as well as programs, scripts, correspondence, photographs, and an Ampex 620 suitcase amp and speaker.
    • Contributor: McDowell, John Herbert
    • Date: 1908
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    Vernon Duke collection, 1918-1968 Vernon Duke (born Vladimir Dukelsky) was an American composer and songwriter. He rose to success in the 1930s with hit songs such as "April in Paris" and "Autumn in New York" and later collaborated with many leading composers and lyricists of the period, including George and Ira Gershwin, Serge Prokofiev, and Serge Koussevitzky. The collection contains manuscript and printed music, correspondence, subject files, photographs,...
    • Contributor: Duke, Vernon
    • Date: 1918
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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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    Andre Kostelanetz collection, 1922-1984 Andre Kostelanetz was a conductor, arranger, and pianist known for juxtaposing popular and classical repertoire in radio broadcasts and concert performances with some of the world's leading orchestras. He also commissioned several compositions which have since become staples in the orchestral repertoire, including works by Aaron Copland, William Schuman, and Jerome Kern. The collection consists of his musical arrangements, correspondence, business papers, programs, photographs,...
    • Contributor: Kostelanetz, Andre
    • Date: 1922
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    German national music collection, 1846-1974 The German National Music Collection primarily contains manuscript and published sheet music, songbooks, and lyric sheets related to and written for the German armed forces, with the largest majority of this material having been published during the period of the Third Reich (1933-1945).
    • Contributor: Hill, Richard S. (Richard Synyer)
    • Date: 1846
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    Otto Klemperer archive, 1792-1988 Conductor and composer. The archive documents Otto Klemperer's life and career. It contains manuscript and printed music, correspondence, family papers, writings by and about Klemperer, interviews, legal and financial documents, clippings, programs, photographic materials, materials related to the Kroll Opera, and books annotated by Klemperer and his daughter Lotte. The archive also contains production and resource materials, including scripts, interviews, background materials, and photographs,...
    • Contributor: Klemperer, Lotte - Bregstein, Philo - Klemperer, Otto
    • Date: 1792
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    Daniel Nagrin collection, circa 1920-2006 Daniel Nagrin (1917-2008) was an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer. The collection contains materials relating to his life and career, and includes holograph and published scores, choreographic and dance technique notes, photographs, correspondence, marketing and fundraising materials, clippings, programs, teaching and administrative materials, production elements, articles by Nagrin and others, drafts of his books, business papers, and personal and biographical files. In addition,...
    • Contributor: Nagrin, Daniel - Tamiris, Helen
    • Date: 1920
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    Max Rudolf papers, 1922-1993 Max Rudolf was a German-born American conductor and music educator. He is best known for his work with the Metropolitan Opera, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Curtis Institute of Music. The collection contains Rudolf's extensive correspondence with prominent 20th century musical figures, Metropolitan Opera annual files documenting his years with that organization, and a few photographs.
    • Contributor: Rudolf, Max
    • Date: 1922
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    Grace and Gustave Schirmer correspondence and other papers, 1845-1949 Gustave Schirmer (1864-1907) was the son of famed German-born music publisher Gustav Schirmer (1829-1893). Gustave is known for establishing Boston Music Co. in 1885 and for filling leadership roles in his father’s business, G. Schirmer Inc., from the early 1880s until his death in 1907. He and his wife Grace were very active within the music community and maintained relationships with prominent composers, musicians,...
    • Contributor: Schirmer, Grace - Schirmer, Gustave - Loeffler, Charles Martin - Fay, Gertrude H. Schirmer - Indy, Vincent D - Gilman, Lawrence
    • Date: 1845
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    Artur Schnabel collection, 1899-1950 Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-born American pianist, pedagogue, and composer. The collection chiefly consists of music manuscript scores of Schnabel’s compositions. The manuscripts are all, with the exception of a single copyist’s score, in Schnabel’s hand, and represent his compositional essays in a variety of genres, from solo song (voice and piano) to symphonic works. The collection also contains an early published edition of...
    • Contributor: Schnabel, Artur
    • Date: 1899
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    Minna Lederman Daniel collection, 1896-1993 Minna Lederman Daniel was an American writer and editor who specialized in music and dance. A major influence on 20th century music, she was a founding member of the League of Composers, a group of musicians and proponents of modern music. She helped launch the League’s magazine, The League of Composers’ Review (later called Modern Music), which was the first American journal to manifest...
    • Contributor: Cage, John - Lederman, Minna - Oja, Carol J. - Thomson, Virgil - Copland, Aaron
    • Date: 1896
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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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    Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation collection, 1894-1953 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was a composer, pianist, and patron of music. In 1925, she created the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation at the Library of Congress in support of chamber music. The collection contains Coolidge's correspondence to and from many of the prominent musical artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Extensive correspondence between Coolidge and Library of Congress librarians and administrators is...
    • Contributor: Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague
    • Date: 1894
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    [Moyshe der fidler : a shames un a klezmer, a idishe muzikalishe bild in eyn akt D53792 U.S. Copyright Office Enhanced description contained in: The Lawrence Marwick collection of copyrighted Yiddish plays at the Library of Congress : an annotated bibliography / by Zachary M. Baker with the assistance of Bonnie Sohn. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Record converted from American Memory pseudomarc.
    • Contributor: Cherniavsky, Joseph
    • Date: 1920-01-01

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    William Ralph Bennett papers, 1922-circa 1998 Physicist, inventor, educator, and author. Topical files, notebooks, records of scientific experiments, research material, correspondence, scientific papers, lecture files, drafts of books with related background and research material, printed matter, and miscellaneous material documenting Bennett's development of the gas laser and other inventions, his academic and professional career, and his authorship of scientific papers and books.
    • Contributor: Bennett, William Ralph
    • Date: 1922
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    Louise Talma papers, 1861-1998 Louise Talma was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. She was a student of Nadia Boulanger and a long-time resident of Fontainebleau and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The collection consists of music manuscripts, harmony and teaching materials, correspondence, photographs, business papers, clippings, programs, publicity materials, writings, awards and other materials related to her career and her family's history.
    • Contributor: Talma, Louise
    • Date: 1861
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    Joe Haymes big band arrangements, 1920-1960 Joe Haymes was an American arranger, pianist, composer, and bandleader. The collection consists mostly of manuscript scores, parts, lead sheets, piano-vocal scores, and sketches for works composed or arranged by Haymes. Also included are a small amount of clippings, photographs, correspondence, and a discography.
    • Contributor: Haymes, Joe
    • Date: 1920
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    Roman Totenberg papers, 1846-2011 Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and teacher. The collection contains annotated music scores, correspondence, business files, biographical materials, photographs, programs, clippings and other materials that document his life and career as a twentieth-century master of the violin.
    • Contributor: Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Paganini, Nicol - Kolsky, Ilka - Totenberg, Roman - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Brahms, Johannes - Schubert, Franz - Milhaud, Darius - Dvořák, Antonín
    • Date: 1846
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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