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Edward Johnson Collection. Correspondence from various agents to Edward Johnson, as well as singing contracts.

Title: Correspondence from various agents to Edward Johnson, as well as singing contracts. 1902- 1952.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 22 files, 487 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/625825848 View

Gabrieli, Giovanni, 1557-1612. [University Choir, Chamber Choir concert] [sound recording] : [Monday, April 27, 1981, 8:00 p.m., Mitchell Hall].

Title: [University Choir, Chamber Choir concert] [sound recording] : [Monday, April 27, 1981, 8:00 p.m., Mitchell Hall]. [1981]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in. + program (1 folded sheet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61208548 View

General Collection manuscript music miscellany, [ca. 1600-ongoing]

Title: General Collection manuscript music miscellany [ca. 1600-ongoing]

Single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts relating to music. Materials are grouped under name headings. Within each name heading, materials are organized in three subgroups: Music, Correspondence, and Other Papers.

ArchivalResource: Linear Feet: ongoing; Total Boxes: ongoing; Other storage formats: oversize, bound volumes

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.genmusmisc View

Jascha Heifetz Collection, 1802-1987, (bulk 1911-1974)

Title: Jascha Heifetz Collection 1802-1987 (bulk 1911-1974)

The collection includes Heifetz's personal music library of original compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions (some of which are unpublished), his annotated parts and scores, holographs and manuscripts of many of his contemporaries, and hundreds of printed scores. Concert programs document his performances from 1911 to 1974, and photographs, photo albums, and scrapbooks, encompassing the violinist's entire life. The correspondence, constituting a small part of the collection, contains letters from such important musical figures of the 20th century as Leopold Auer, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofiev, George Bernard Shaw, and Sir William Walton; correspondence from Heifetz is also housed in other Music Division collections.

ArchivalResource: circa 17,500 items; 280 boxes; 52 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003008 View

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Papers, 1822-1998, (bulk 1920-1968)

Title: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Papers 1822-1998 (bulk 1920-1968)

This collection consists of materials related to the professional and personal activities of composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. It contains holograph music manuscripts, printed scores, libretti, writings, correspondence, business files, photographs, programs, clippings, and other items that document the life of this influential composer.

ArchivalResource: approximately 7,900 items; 161 containers; 71.0 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010012 View

Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, 1895-1968. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco papers, 1822-1998 (bulk 1920-1968).

Title: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco papers, 1822-1998 (bulk 1920-1968).

This collection consists of materials related to Castelnuovo-Tedesco's professional and personal activities. It includes holograph and copyist music manuscripts, printed music, and libretti for operas, ballets, and other dramatic pieces; orchestral compositions; chamber music; choral and vocal works; and piano and guitar works. The collection also contains writings by and about the composer; correspondence with family members and various notables, including Ernest Bloch, Luigi Dallapiccola, Jascha Heifetz, Hans Moldenhauer, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Nick Rossi, Nino Rota, Andrés Segovia, Memmi Strozzi, and Arturo Toscanini; business papers; photographs; programs; reviews; biographical materials; film music materials; publicity materials; news clippings; and an assortment of books owned by the composer. In addition, the collection includes an annotated copy by the author of Nick Rossi's Catalogue of works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

ArchivalResource: approximately 7,900 items (161 boxes, 71.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71130022 View

Yehudi Menuhin Collection, 1938-1950

Title: Yehudi Menuhin Collection 1938-1950

The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Yehudi Menuhin as violin soloist, with piano accompaniment by Hephzibah Menuhin, or with orchestral accompaniment. Most of the recordings are test pressings made between 1938 and 1950. The first box also contains one folder with three record labels that were removed from three Menuhin discs which are not included in this collection.

ArchivalResource: 1.1 linear feet,; 2 boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8m3nf77w View

Correspondence from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection, 1894-1953, (bulk 1920-1953)

Title: Correspondence from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection 1894-1953 (bulk 1920-1953)

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was a composer, pianist, and patron of music. In 1925, she created the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation at the Library of Congress in support of chamber music. The collection contains Coolidge's correspondence to and from many of the prominent musical artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Extensive correspondence between Coolidge and Library of Congress librarians and administrators is also included. The remaining materials in the collection, including photographs, scrapbooks, business papers, programs, publicity materials, iconography, realia, and clippings, are available for research and will be incorporated into the finding aid at a later date. Music manuscripts of works commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge or the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress comprise a substantial portion of the collection and are cataloged individually.

ArchivalResource: around 56,680 items; 109 containers; 48.50 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012012 View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. Lo straniero : dramma in 2 atti / di Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Title: Lo straniero : dramma in 2 atti / di Ildebrando Pizzetti. 1924 Sept. 7.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (331, 236 p.) ; 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50911412 View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. Musica strumentale e corale per il film "I promessi sposi" / Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Title: Musica strumentale e corale per il film "I promessi sposi" / Ildebrando Pizzetti. [1941]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (various pagings) ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57601209 View

Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983.

The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures. Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.

ArchivalResource: 64.12 linear feet (362 boxes) + 4 broadside folders.

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.frkoch View

Horowitz, Vladimir, 1903-1989. The papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, 1784-1991 (inclusive).

Title: The papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, 1784-1991 (inclusive).

The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz document the lives of the legendary pianist and his wife through the Horowitzes' correspondence with family members, performers, composers, agents, and recording companies. The Papers also contain a large number of photographs, as well as many musical scores from Horowitz's library. In addition, the Papers contain clippings, scrapbooks, financial records, miscellaneous materials, and a number of items related to Horowitz's father-in-law, Arturo Toscanini.

ArchivalResource: 69 linear ft. (164 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150358 View

Sheet music featuring European composers, 1890-1942.

Title: Sheet music featuring European composers, 1890-1942.

Sheet music composed by European composers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02234/catalog View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. Autograph letter signed, dated : Florence, 29 January 1917, to an unidentified recipient, 1917 Jan. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Florence, 29 January 1917, to an unidentified recipient, 1917 Jan. 29.

Apologizing for not having answered sooner concerning Signorina Tacchinardi, and expressing the hope of finding time to speak with the recipient about a matter of some importance.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270675024 View

Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957. Telegram and printed invitation, dated and undated : New York, February 1928, and [n.d.], to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1928 Feb. and n.d.

Title: Telegram and printed invitation, dated and undated : New York, February 1928, and [n.d.], to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1928 Feb. and n.d.

Expressing regret that he and his wife cannot be present at the commemorative concert of the Symphony Society for Walter Damrosch, and inviting the Flaglers to a concert of music by Ildebrando Pizzetti, played by the Busch Quartet, under the auspices of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.) ; (obl. 8vo and 24mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270677778 View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. Autograph letter signed, dated : Rome, 2 May 1955, to Calusio, Buenos Aires.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Rome, 2 May 1955, to Calusio, Buenos Aires.

Pizzetti writes to Argentine conductor [Ferruccio] Calusio regarding his pleasure that Calusio will be presenting Pizzetti's opera La figlia di lorio in Buenos Aires and his regrets that the director helming the production, [Carlo] Moresco, was not able to attend performances in Italy, and advising Calusio on elements of performance practice.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769139933 View

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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 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

Sheet music featuring European composers, 1890-1942.

Title: Sheet music featuring European composers, 1890-1942.

Sheet music composed by European composers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02234/catalog View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. Musiche strumentali basati sur il film Scipione l'Africano / Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Title: Musiche strumentali basati sur il film Scipione l'Africano / Ildebrando Pizzetti. [1936-1937]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (various pagings) ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57601199 View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. La Pisanella. I. Sire Huguet[. Harp] / Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Title: La Pisanella. I. Sire Huguet[. Harp] / Ildebrando Pizzetti. [19--?]

ArchivalResource: [1] p. of music ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26529438 View

Olga Rudge Papers, 1887-1989

Title: Olga Rudge Papers 1887-1989

The Olga Rudge Papers document many aspects of Rudge's personal life and professional activities. There are 32 boxes of letters between Ezra Pound and Rudge. Other major correspondents include Mary de Rachewiltz, James Laughlin, George Antheil, Renata Borgatti, conte Guido Chigi Saracini, Cyril Connolly, T. S. Eliot, Egerton Grey, Desmond O'Grady, D. D. Paige, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Dorothy Pound, and Adrian Stokes. The papers also contain daily notebooks kept by Rudge from 1966 on; a variety of personal and financial papers; printed material collected by Rudge; and documentation of her musical career, including autograph scores by George Antheil, Tibor Serly, and Julia Perry.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 163; Linear Feet: 87.5

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.olga View

Musicians and composers : letters, 1937-1981.

Title: Musicians and composers : letters, 1937-1981.

A somewhat unrelated mix of letters, including two from Varese (about Toscanini, Barbirolli and other conductors working in New York, 1937); two from Ildebrando Pizzetti (to Piero Coppola), 1954; and one each from the following: Jacques Ibert (to Piero Coppola), 1947; Francisco DeLeone (to Fortune Gallo), 1942; Antonio Ciampi (to Ildebrando Pizzetti) 1954; Lutoslawski, 1967; Dallapiccola (discussing how to conduct the premiere of his THREE QUESTIONS FOR TWO ANSWERS), 1963; and Krenek, 1981 (with an autograph musical quotation and photograph signed).

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754863167 View

Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983.

The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures. Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.

ArchivalResource: 64.12 linear feet (362 boxes) + 4 broadside folders.

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.frkoch View

Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 1880-1968. Musiche strumentali per il film tratto dal Mulino del Po / di Riccardo Bacchelli ; [musica di] Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Title: Musiche strumentali per il film tratto dal Mulino del Po / di Riccardo Bacchelli ; [musica di] Ildebrando Pizzetti. [1948]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57601196 View

Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959. [Correspondence, 1919-1957] / Ernest Bloch.

Title: [Correspondence, 1919-1957] / Ernest Bloch.

ArchivalResource: [72] p. ; 28 x 22 cm. or smaller + 13 envelopes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57443416 View

Labiner, Sarah, 1987-. Cantata Singers [sound recording]

Title: Cantata Singers [sound recording] 2008.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound disc (68:37) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/259101890 View

The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz., 1784-1991

Title: The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz. 1784-1991

Correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) and his wife Wanda Toscanini Horowitz (1907-1998)

ArchivalResource: 164 boxes (69 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0055 View