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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 The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin,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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Schmidt, Franz, 1874 Dec. 22-1939. Concert für Klavier mit Orchesterbegleitung : 1934 [microform] / componiert vonFranz Schmidt.

Title: Concert für Klavier mit Orchesterbegleitung : 1934 [microform] / componiert vonFranz Schmidt. [1934]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (126 p.)

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Schmidt, Franz, 1874 Dec. 22-1939. Wiegenlied, op. 20 / F. Schmidt.

Title: Wiegenlied, op. 20 / F. Schmidt. [19--]

ArchivalResource: ms. score (7 p.) + printed parts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54819058 View

Schmidt, Franz, 1874 Dec. 22-1939. Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1915.

Title: Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1915.

Schmidt's initial letter reflects that Alma Mahler had written to him expressing admiration for his music and a desire to study with him; in responding to her, he expresses his recognition of her as a composer. The subsequent letters concern the rescheduling of missed appointments.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

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Schmidt, Franz, 1874 Dec. 22-1939. Quintett für Klavier, Clarinette in A, Violine, Viola und Violoncell : 1938 [microform] / componirt von Franz Schmidt.

Title: Quintett für Klavier, Clarinette in A, Violine, Viola und Violoncell : 1938 [microform] / componirt von Franz Schmidt. [1938]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (127 p.) + 4 ms. parts

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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Autograph letters signed (20), autograph postcards signed (8), and typewritten letters signed (3), dated : Vienna, Garmisch, La Plata (Argentina), Paris, Amsterdam, Athens, [and other places], 1919-1939, to Max Graf, 1919 Jan. 25, 1919 Aug. 22, 1923 Aug. 8, 1925, 15 February, 1926 Nov. 22, 1926 June 20.

Title: Autograph letters signed (20), autograph postcards signed (8), and typewritten letters signed (3), dated : Vienna, Garmisch, La Plata (Argentina), Paris, Amsterdam, Athens, [and other places], 1919-1939, to Max Graf, 1919 Jan. 25, 1919 Aug. 22, 1923 Aug. 8, 1925, 15 February, 1926 Nov. 22, 1926 June 20.

Discussing his various activities as composer and conductor, criticizing Schalk's direction of the Vienna Court Opera, mentioning his Schlagobers, [Ägyptische] Helena, Intermezzo, Elektra, Schweigsame Frau, [Symphonia] Domestica, [Julius] Korngold, Frau Martner, Hofmannsthal, Albert Noelte, Heinz Tiessen, Bülow, Klaus Pringsheim, Karl Salomon, Gustav Brecher, [Ernst?] Decsey, Hartmann, Mahler, Schillings, Fr[anz] Schmidt, Bruckner, Reger, Pfitzner, Renkin, Vetter, Kralik, Karpath, Turnau, Kossak, Fritz Busch, Wilhelm Bauer, Bruno Walter, Clemens Krauss, Schneider, Knappertsbusch, Beethoven, [Gertrude] Kappel, Roselle, Elisabeth Bischoff, [Carl?] Flesch, [Mozart's] Idomeneo, Wagner's Tristan, Schubert, Alwin, Léhar, Krenek, and other persons; with one musical example.

ArchivalResource: 31 items (60 p., with 3 envelopes.) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270670232 View

Brandmann, Isr. (Israel), 1901-1992. Music scores and papers, 1918-1964.

Title: Music scores and papers, 1918-1964.

The Israel Brandmann Collection contains the papers of musician Israel Brandmann (1901-1992), who was active in Jewish musical circles in Vienna between 1924 and 1935. The papers include over ninety concert programs and announcements, 1922-1936; six professional photographs, ca. 1930-1938; and a blue velvet portfolio with an inscribed silver harp of David, 1920, that contains congratulatory letters and certificates praising Brandmann's musical ensemble Kadimah, 1918-1922. Also within the papers are some of Brandmann's unpublished manuscripts, including student compositions, ca. 1925-1927; his symphonic poem Hechalutz = Der Pionier, 1930; three Hebrew language pieces, ca. 1938; and one of his father's compositions, ca. 1919. The Collection includes Brandmann's published scores from the J.T.S. Library's circulating collection, 1930-1935; photocopies of his published and unpublished scores held by other libraries, 1930-1935; and photocopies of several additional concert programs, 1919-1964.

ArchivalResource: 24 items (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436945907 View