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Léner Quartet papers, 1920-1947.

Title: Léner Quartet papers, 1920-1947.

The collection includes clippings of articles about concerts, fliers, brochures, programs, correspondence, and other papers. A small percentage of the material deals with the early years ; the major portion deals with the years 1942-1947.

ArchivalResource: .28 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122598222 View

Kolisch Quartet scrapbook.

Title: Kolisch Quartet scrapbook. [19--]

This scrapbook contains photocopies of materials owned by the Arnold Schoenberg Institute Archives in Los Angeles (now the Arnold Schoenberg Center Archives in Vienna). These include programs and announcements primarily relating to performances of Schoenberg's string quartets by the Kolisch Quartet. There are also a number of photographs, mainly of a personal nature, picturing members of the Kolisch quartet with Arnold Schoenberg and their family members. Detailed descriptions are included with almost all of the photographs.

ArchivalResource: 114 p. : ports. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/619028845 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 The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin,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