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Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., n.d., 1874?], to [Choudens], [1874?].

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., n.d., 1874?], to [Choudens], [1874?].

Asking him to change the wording on the title page [of "Patrie"] from "ouverture" to "ouverture dramatique," mentioning "la jolie fille [de Perth]," Pasdeloup, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (16vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270977098 View

Duparc, Henri, 1848-1933. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 20 February [n.y., 1881?] to an unidentified friend, 1881? Feb. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 20 February [n.y., 1881?] to an unidentified friend, 1881? Feb. 20.

Saying that the package and this letter will only arrive Tuesday, too late for the recipient's "chahut," that he no longer has the two pianos and harmonium needed to play "les bêtises," mentioning Franck and Pasdeloup, saying the recipient may return the music when Duparc takes him the first act of Roussalka, reporting that he is working, but, like someone climbing in the snow, goes two steps back for each one forward, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270566028 View

Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912. Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 9 January 1885, to an unidentified recipient, 1885 Jan. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 9 January 1885, to an unidentified recipient, 1885 Jan. 9.

Saying how touched he was by her recollection, that he, too, has not forgotten the evening of the 50th performance of Manon--15 May 1884--, recalling the Pasdeloup festival on 31 May, expressing happiness at her success, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270581989 View

Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-circa 1990

Title: Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress circa 1000-circa 1990

The archives consist primarily of music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings. They span years from the Middle Ages to the present, and include documents of composers, musicians, and literary figures, among others. The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin,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 Garca Lorca, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 131 boxes; 206 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003012 View