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Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. [Album leaf in the hand of Bernhard Cossmann], 1888 May 21.

Title: [Album leaf in the hand of Bernhard Cossmann], 1888 May 21.

ArchivalResource: 1 score (1 p.) ; 9 x 11 cm.

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Raff, Joachim, 1822-1882. Autograph letters signed (33), autograph postal card signed, and autograph document signed, dated : Wiesbaden, Weimar, Vienna, Leipzig, [and n.p.], 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], to Julius Schuberth in Leipzig (two are to a Herr Vogel, who was apparently connected with Schuberth), 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], including 1859 Sept. 3 and 1863 Feb. 23.

Title: Autograph letters signed (33), autograph postal card signed, and autograph document signed, dated : Wiesbaden, Weimar, Vienna, Leipzig, [and n.p.], 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], to Julius Schuberth in Leipzig (two are to a Herr Vogel, who was apparently connected with Schuberth), 1859-1863 and 1877, [and n.d.], including 1859 Sept. 3 and 1863 Feb. 23.

Discussing the publication and/or performance of a number of his works, including the Sonatas in A major and E minor, the Sonata op. 77 [sic], "Stücke für kleine Hände," Samson, König Alfred, the D-minor Quartet (discussed at length), his opp. 49, 50, 55 ("Frühlingsboten"), and 58, "Klavier-Soli," "Eglogue fantastique," 3 Sonatillen, Wachet auf!, "Sangesfrühling" [all 30 songs are listed], "Nabocoff Polka Mazurka," Symphony [no. 1] "An das Vaterland," and other works, mentioning Liszt, Draeseke, Schumann, Bülow, Kistner, Gurckhaus, Zellner, Rellstab, [Ludwig] Strauss, Pruckner, Hellmesberger, [Leopold] Damrosch, Singer, Beethoven, Hanslick, Müller String Quartet, Pohl, Laub, Strauss String Quartet, Thalberg, Keller, Wagner, Mozart, Spohr, Meyerbeer, Weber, Lortzing, Marschner, Flotow, [Anton] Rubinstein, Brahms, Lassen, Bronsart von Schellendorf, Brendel, Heinrichshofen, Klindworth, Laurencin d'Armond, Schott, Schreiber, Tausig, [Robert] Franz, Hiller, Hug, Voss, Bote & Bock, Glasbrenner's Berlin, Gumprecht, Joachim, Bachmann, Chevillard, Armingaud, Roeder, [Adolf Bernhard] Marx, Kühn, Jaell, [Ignaz] Moscheles, Heinze, Satter, Goldbeck, Wallace, Barth, Hasselt, Senff, Mendelssohn, Rietz, Breitkopf & Härtel, Handel, Stör, Walbrül, Cossmann, Mason Brothers, Hallberger, Rummel, Reinecke, [Gustav] Schumann, Jadassohn, Dustmann, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, [Julius?] Friedländer, Cotta, Rieter-Biedermann, Peters, Spina, Schubert, Lange, Riedel, Kücken, Grädener, Herbeck, Gade, Dessoff, Bruch, Kahnt, and other persons, etc.

ArchivalResource: 35 items (98 p., with 2 integral address leaves) ; various sizes.

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Cossmann, Bernhard, 1822-1910. "Melodie suisse" : autograph manuscript, 1850 Feb. 25.

Title: "Melodie suisse" : autograph manuscript, 1850 Feb. 25.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (1 p.) ; 30 x 23 cm.

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Lassen, Eduard, 1830-1904. Incoming correspondence, ca.1857-1890.

Title: Incoming correspondence, ca.1857-1890.

Letters stem from the time that Lassen was music director in Weimar. The correspondents are primarily musicians and others connected with the musical world. Several letters are requests for performances of Lassen's owncompositions, such as Oedipus Rex and the Symphony in D major. A letter from Franz Dingelstedt, impressario at the Weimar Opera, discusses a Wagner production. Other correspondents include Peter Cornelius (Danis tenor), Joseph Servais (Begian cellist), Albert Traeger, Wilhelm Taubert (German pianist, conductor and composer), Jules de Swert (Belgian cellist and composer), Bernhard Cossmann (German cellist), Leopold Damrosch (German-American violinist and conductor), Emil Scaria (Austrian singer), Desiree Artot (Belgian soprano), Louis Brassin (French pianist), Robert Franz (German composer), Izydor Lotto (Polish composer), Hubert Leonard (Belgian violinist and composer), Catulle Mendes (French author), Edouard Schure (Austrian writer on music), Ernest Heinrich Anton Pasque, Aloys Schmitt (German pianist and composer) and Ferdinand Pauvels.

ArchivalResource: 31 letters.

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Bülow, Hans von, 1830-1894. Autograph letters signed (33), autograph copy of a letter to Prince Hohenzollern-Hechingen, autograph document entitled "Conzertprogrammpläne für die Saison 1864-65 Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde," dated : Berlin, Munich, Breslau, Hanover, Wiesbaden, and [n.p.], 1858-1865 and 1868, [and n.d.], to Max Seifriz, 1858 Mar. 1, 1858-1865 and 1868, and n.d.

Title: Autograph letters signed (33), autograph copy of a letter to Prince Hohenzollern-Hechingen, autograph document entitled "Conzertprogrammpläne für die Saison 1864-65 Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde," dated : Berlin, Munich, Breslau, Hanover, Wiesbaden, and [n.p.], 1858-1865 and 1868, [and n.d.], to Max Seifriz, 1858 Mar. 1, 1858-1865 and 1868, and n.d.

On various musical and other professional matters, discussing concerts and programs, the great difficulty in preparing the piano score of Tristan ("zum Lohengrin verhält sich das Werk etwa wie der Fidelio zur Entführung"), commenting on a work of Seifriz's (it is primarily ear music, not eye music like Schumann's), mentioning his wife [Cosima], Tausig, Berlioz, Wagner, Liszt, Hauptmann, the Prince von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, [Leopold] Damrosch, Milde, Bechstein, Erard, Ludwig Strauss, Joachim, Laub, Singer, Schumann, Bargiel, Esser, Bach, Draeseke, Bronsart, Raff, Heinrich Gottwald, Henselt, Alexis Holländer, Pohl, Brendel, Popper, Grützmacher, Alfred Meissner, Mildner, Kittl, Apt, Weitzmann, Cornelius, Meyerbeer, Böckh, Fétis, Bote & Bock, Fürstner, Rubinstein, Devrient, von Hülsen, Harriers-Wippern, Köster, Gluck, Wieck, Lewenski, Oberthür, Cossmann, Servais, Alide Topp, Bagge, Simmel, Mendelssohn, Vogler, Weber, Glinka, Mozart, Stockhausen, Schnorr, and others, etc.

ArchivalResource: 35 items (90 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

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