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A.P. Schmidt Company. A.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958 (bulk 1895-1920).

Title: A.P. Schmidt Company archives, 1869-1958 (bulk 1895-1920).

The A.P. Schmidt Company archives contains music, correspondence, business and financial records, and related documents. These materials provide a detailed look at the management, daily operations, and history of the Schmidt firm. In the music series, which contains manuscripts and some printed music and is the largest part of the collection, are examples of music composed by Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and selected for publication by Schmidt. The majority of the music in the collection is in autograph form; some are holographs in the hand of the composer and many are the work of Schmidt company editors and arrangers. It is from these manuscripts that the Schmidt company prepared its publications. The music in the collection is principally for voice, chorus or piano, with some examples of large-scale orchestral music as well. It should be noted that none of the manuscripts of Edward MacDowell, one of Schmidt's most important composers, accompanied the collection to the Library of Congress. It may be assumed that after MacDowell's death, most of his manuscripts were returned to his widow, Marian MacDowell (see the Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection). Among the major correspondents in the collection are Edward Ballantine, Florence Newell Barbour, Floy Bartlett, Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, Robert Braine, Gena Branscombe, F. Leslie Calver,Rosseter G. Cole, Mabel Daniels, Roland Diggle, G. A. Grant-Schaefer, Cora W. Jenkins, Boris Levenson, Marian MacDowell, John W. Metcalf, T. Tertius Noble, Mari Paldi, Anna Priscilla Risher, Thomas Tapper, and George Woodhouse. Other notable correspondents include Paul Ambrose, Willi Apel, J. Stuart Archer, Parker Bailey, Edward Shippen Barnes, Marion Bauer, Richard Key Biggs, Arthur Bird, David Bispham, Carl Bohm, Joseph Bonnet, Franz Bornschein, Felix Borowski, John Hyatt Brewer, Radie Britain, Rayner Brown, Ignaz Brüll, Annabel Morris Buchanan, Charles Wakefield Cadman, William C. Carl, Pablo Casals, George Whitefield Chadwick,Norman Coke-Jephcott, Rossetter G. Cole, Frederick S. Converse, Henry Cowell, Bainbridge Crist, Frank Damrosch, Charles F. Dennée, Robert Nathaniel Dett, David Diamond, Clarence Dickinson, Olin Downes, Marcel Dupré, Clarence Eddy, Carl Engel, Geraldine Farrar, H. T. Finck, Ross Lee Finney, Arthur Foote, Rudolf Friml, Henry S. Fry, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Rudolph Ganz, W. W. Gilchrist, Leopold Godowsky, Percy Grainger, Donald J. Grout, Alexandre Guilmant, Cornelius Gurlitt, Henry K. Hadley, Hermann Hagedorn, Philip Hale, Howard Hanson, F. Flaxington Harker, Charles Haubiel, George Henschel, Edward Burlingame Hill, John Tasker Howard, Mary Howe, Rupert Hughes, Henry Holden Huss, Philip James, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Bruno Oscar Klein, Ernest R. Kroeger, Gail Kubik, Edwin H. Lemare, Ellen Jane Lorenz, Otto Leuning, Eduardo Marzo, Daniel Gregory Mason, William H. Neidlinger, Arthur Nevin, Geoffrey O'Hara, John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Daniel Pinkham, Florence B. Price, Richard Purvis, Carl Reinecke, Hugo Reinhold, Josef Rheinberger, Wallingford Riegger, Artur Schnabel, Percy A. Scholes, William Howard Schuman, Ludwig Schytte, R. Deane Shure, Ernest M. Skinner, Templeton Strong, Paolo Tosti, William Treat Upton, Edgar Varese, Clarence Cameron White, Thornton Wilder, John Wesley Work and many others. Some composers whose works are represented in the collection include Charles R. Adams, William F. Apthorp, Frederick Archer, Florence Newell Barbour, Edward S. Barnes, Floy L. Bartlett, Marion Bauer, Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, W. Berwald, Arthur Bird, J. W. Bischoff, W. L. Blumenschein, Carl Bohm, George Whitefield Chadwick, Arthur Foote, Rudolf Friml, Leopold Godowsky, Helen Hopekirk, Edward A. Macdowell, F. A. Porter, H. J. Stewart, G. D. Wilson, Alfred Wooler, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 212 linear ft. (514 boxes)

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Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951. Serge Koussevitzky Archive, 1920-1976 (bulk: 1924-1951)

Title: Serge Koussevitzky Archive 1920-1976 (bulk 1924-1951)

The archive is a collection of correspondence, personal and business papers, photographs, and other materials which 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 maintained deep ties with many of the finest composers and musicians of the day. These figures are represented in their personal and professional affiliations with the conductor. In addition to serving as a record of Koussevitzky's life and career, the collection extensively chronicles periods in the history of organizations such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berkshire Music Center, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and the American International Music Fund. Material in the collection dates from Koussevitzky's years in his native Russia. The bulk of the collection dates from 1924 to 1951; it also contains material created after Koussevitzky's death, reflecting his widow's continuing work with various organizations and projects. Musical compositions commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky are part of the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Collection, and are shelved in ML30.3c, ML30.3c2, ML30.3c3, and ML30.3e2.

ArchivalResource: circa 13,000 items; 138 boxes; 100 linear feet

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Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

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 Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

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