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Pedrotti, Carlo, 1817-1893. Autograph letter signed, dated : Turin, 16 March 1870, to a named but unidentified recipient, 1870 Mar. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Turin, 16 March 1870, to a named but unidentified recipient, 1870 Mar. 16.

Reporting on the great success of [the première of] his opera Il favorito the night before, mentioning the singers Stoltz, Cotogni, Contarini , Carpi, Vecchi, also mentioning Martinet, Constantin, Boieldieu, etc.

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

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (15), dated : Paris [and n.p.], [1854]-1864 [and n.d.], to [Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein], 1854 Dec. 16, [1854]-1864 [and n.d.].

Title: Autograph letters signed (15), dated : Paris [and n.p.], [1854]-1864 [and n.d.], to [Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein], 1854 Dec. 16, [1854]-1864 [and n.d.].

Largely of a personal and social nature, mentioning his Troyens (with a muiscal example), L'enfance du Christ, [Benvenuto] Cellini, Les grotesques de la musique, David's Hurculanum, Gounod's Faust, "l'opéra innomé de Meyerbeer" [i.e. Dinorah], [Massé's] La reine Topaze (in which the prima donna sings Paganini's variations on the Carnival of Venice), Bellini's Les Capuletti [i.e. I Capuleti e i Montecchi] with Vaccai's Act III, expressing his dislike of Haydn's Creation, mentioning Liszt, Mme Patersi, Mme Milde, Mme Stoltz, Scudo, Littolf [i.e. Litolff], Paul Delaroche, Delacroix, Scheffer, Ponsard, Shakespeare (whom Berlioz quotes in several letters), Richault, Oulibischef, Weber's Oberon, Bertin, Molière, Mlle Artôt, Viardot, Borghi-Mammo [i.e. Adelaide Borghi], Pasdeloup, Beethoven, Dessauer, Michelet, Balzac, the duchesse d'Abrantès [i.e. Laure Junot], [Delphine] de Girardin, Adolphe Nourrit, Rachel, [Joseph] Strau, ̀ Bénazet, Vestvali [i.e. Felicja Vestfali], Hugo, Edouard Plouvier, Bulow, Mme Charton-Demeur, Jules Lefort, Dingelstedt, Flottow [sic], Verdi, and Conti (who have been nominated for the Institut de France)--"C'est flatteur pour Verdi n'est-ce pas? ... Verdi est un galant homme, très fier, très inflexible, et qui sait on ne peut mieux remettre à leur place les petits chiens et les gros ânes qui s'émancipent trop"--, Rossini, Palestrina, Gewaert [sic], Monjauze, [Léon] Carvalho, [Gustave-Hippolyte] Roger, Mmes Erard, Spontini, and Scheffer, etc.

ArchivalResource: 15 items (73 p.) ; (8vo)

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Stoltz, Rosine, 1815-1903. Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 3 March [1845?], to an unidentified recipient, [1845?] Mar. 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 3 March [1845?], to an unidentified recipient, [1845?] Mar. 3.

Saying how much she enjoys chatting about the recipient with people who admire her talent as much as they like her character, that she would like for all the world for her to come and share with Stoltz the bravos of the Parisian public, adding that she leaves in two days for Bologna, where she will be staying with Mme. Rossini [presumably Isabella Colbran, Rossini's first wife], mentioning Léon Pillet, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (12mo)

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Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912. Autograph letters signed (25) and autograph postal card signed, dated : Paris, Milan [and other places, and n.p.], 1868-1892 [and n.d.], to Armand Gouzien, 1868-1892 [and n.d.].

Title: Autograph letters signed (25) and autograph postal card signed, dated : Paris, Milan [and other places, and n.p.], 1868-1892 [and n.d.], to Armand Gouzien, 1868-1892 [and n.d.].

Asking that the title of some music read "Fantaisie-Valse par Renaud de Vilbac," mentioning his Marie-Magdeleine, Suites (Hungarian and others), Hérodiade, [Le] Cid, N[otre] D[ame] de Paris, Werther, a review of his Suite d'orchestre [1868], Mme Charles Moulton, Vieuxtemps, [Teresa] Carreño, Hartmann, Denis Pazmandy, Fréderic de Harkányi, Lassalle, Milliet, Fachbach, Taborsky, Rosine Stoltz, Tamagno, Ricordi, Paul Martin, [Edouard] Blau, Paul Meurice, Delibes, Gille, Jules Barbier, Ambroise Thomas, and others, etc.

ArchivalResource: 26 items (42 p.) ; various sizes.

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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Autograph letters signed (14), dated : Paris [and n.p.], 1850-1865, to his brother-in-law Camille Pal, 1850-1865.

Title: Autograph letters signed (14), dated : Paris [and n.p.], 1850-1865, to his brother-in-law Camille Pal, 1850-1865.

Of a social, familial, financial, and musical nature, metioning his Te Deum, Benvenuto [Cellini] in Weimar, Requiem, Roméo et Juliette, [Damnation de] Faust, Les grotesques de la musique, Les troyens, Béatrice et Bénédict, L'enfance du Christ, [Gluck's] Alceste, his son, Louis, Admiral Cécile, Henriette [i.e. Harriet Smithson], his sister Adèle, Charles Dupin, [T. Frederick] Beale, the Pion family, grand operas by Gounot [i.e. Gounod] and Gewaert [i.e. Gevaert], Benazet, Mme Charton-Demeur, Carvalho, Viardot, Stoltz, Titjens [i.e. Therese Tietjens], [Caroline Carvalho], etc.

ArchivalResource: 14 items (40 p.) ; various sizes.

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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

Stoltz, Rosine, 1815-1903. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, [n.d.].

Saying she hears that the recipient is "fort souffrante," putting herself entirely at her disposal, asking if there is any way she can be of service to her, etc.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270670172 View