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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 The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin,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

Yale University. Music Library. [Organ manuscript [microform].

Title: [Organ manuscript [microform]. 17--?]

ArchivalResource: 70 p. of ms. music.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214969857 View

Sechter, Simon, 1788-1867. Die richtige Folge der Grundharmonien oder Fundamentalbass und dessen Umkehrungen und Stellvertretern. [microform].

Title: Die richtige Folge der Grundharmonien oder Fundamentalbass und dessen Umkehrungen und Stellvertretern. [microform].

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43735891 View

Thalberg, Sigismond, 1812-1871. Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna, 16 October 1838, to N[icolas] Mori in London, 1838 Oct. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna, 16 October 1838, to N[icolas] Mori in London, 1838 Oct. 16.

Saying that he does not think it is in the interest of Mori fils to accompany Thalberg, that he has changed his itinerary somewhat and that he will go to Berlin, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Bremen, and Hamburg, saying he would have little time to devote to Frank and could not introduce him in houses where he himself is a stranger, reminding him of the cold weather to be endured, suggesting that Frank remain in Vienna for some time and study counterpoint with Sechter, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p., with integral address leaf) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270676656 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

MICHAEL HAYDN Adagio and Fugue in D major for orchestra (K Anh. A52). [Viennese?] copy; n.d. [before 1837] . Arrangement by Simon Sechter from Mozart’s partial transcription of the finale of a symphony by Michael Haydn, published in reduction for pia...

Title: MICHAEL HAYDN Adagio and Fugue in D major for orchestra (K Anh. A52). [Viennese?] copy; n.d. [before 1837] . Arrangement by Simon Sechter from Mozart’s partial transcription of the finale of a symphony by Michael Haydn, published in reduction for pia... [before 1837]

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896. [Harmony exercises].

Title: [Harmony exercises]. [ca. 1855-1858]

ArchivalResource: p. 33-34 (i.e. [1] leaf of ms. music) ; 26 x 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31263795 View

Sechter, Simon, 1788-1867. Autograph manuscript signed : [n.p., Vienna?, [n.d., ca. 1843].

Title: Autograph manuscript signed : [n.p., Vienna?, [n.d., ca. 1843].

Being a brief, highly unfavorable review of Jan Jarmusiewicz's Nowy system muzyki mentioning Albrechtsberger, Förster, Reicha, and Schicht.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270669719 View

Sechter, Simon, 1788-1867. [Fugues].

Title: [Fugues]. [n.d.]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (4 p.) ; 26 x 32.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270569507 View