Roman Totenberg, 1911-2012
Roman Totenberg’s career as a world renowned virtuoso violinist and revered teacher spanned nine decades and four continents. His extraordinary life is documented in thousands of pages of music, correspondence, photographs, programs, videos and other material now in the Library of Congress Music Division.
An Introduction to Papers of Violinists at the Library of Congress
Totenberg playing violin / Ilka Kolsky The Music Division has amassed some 600 archival collections containing music, correspondence, programs, photographs, publicity materials, and business papers from a wide variety of individuals and organizations in music, theater, and dance. These usually contain whatever was retained by the individual or organization up to the time a collection is acquired by the Library of Congress. In addition,…