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 The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin,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

The John Kirkpatrick Papers, 1836-1993 (inclusive)

Title: The John Kirkpatrick Papers 1836-1993 (inclusive)

Correspondence and other writings, music, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American pianist and scholar John Kirkpatrick (1905-1991)

ArchivalResource: 95 boxes (40 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0056 View

UNCSA Chamber Music Society. Ménage à trios [sound recording]

Title: Ménage à trios [sound recording] 2009.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound disc (77:55) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/526381090 View

Nin, Joaquín, 1879-1949. [Collection of songs / arr. or composed by Joaquin Nin].

Title: [Collection of songs / arr. or composed by Joaquin Nin]. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([20] p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63552116 View

Kirkpatrick, John, 1905-1991. The John Kirkpatrick papers, 1836-1993 (inclusive).

Title: The John Kirkpatrick papers, 1836-1993 (inclusive).

The John Kirkpatrick Papers document the life and career of American pianist John Kirkpatrick through his correspondence with composers, performers, music educators, and family members. The Papers also hold an extensive collection of music, including sketches, manuscripts, and published versions of Kirkpatrick's many editions of music by composers such as Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles. Kirkpatrick's life and work are further documented with photographs, programs, reviews, writings, teaching materials, and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear ft. (95 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150415 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

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. [Musical sketch for an unknown song].

Title: [Musical sketch for an unknown song]. [ca. 1903]

Holograph sketch for medium voice (without text) and piano, written in ink on lined music paper. At bottom of leaf is ms. authenticity statement by Joaquín Nin, indicating that the manuscript was given to him by Madame Debussy three years before her death [in 1934]. Accompanied by two printed tickets inviting Nin to attend the unveiling of the Debussy monument in Paris on June 17, 1932.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([1] leaf) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681653831 View

Nin, Joaquín, 1879-1949. [Collection of songs / arr. by Joaquin Nin].

Title: [Collection of songs / arr. by Joaquin Nin]. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (11 p.) ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63552115 View

Harding, Charles Alvar, 1915-. Autograph Book.

Title: Autograph Book.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270566304 View

Starkweather, David. David Starkweather, violoncello ; Liana Embovica-Rivkin, piano [videorecording] : in recital.

Title: David Starkweather, violoncello ; Liana Embovica-Rivkin, piano [videorecording] : in recital. 1998.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40427355 View

Nin, Joaquín, 1879-1949. Minué cantado / la partie de chant par José Bassa ; la partie de piano par Joaquin Nin.

Title: Minué cantado / la partie de chant par José Bassa ; la partie de piano par Joaquin Nin. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([4] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63552113 View

Sperry, Paul. Great composers love folksongs, too [sound recording]

Title: Great composers love folksongs, too [sound recording] 1989.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound cassette : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76942454 View

LETTERS TO EDWARD CLARK. Vol. II (ff. 193). L-W, including letters of:-(a) Arnold Schoenberg, mainly relating to arrangements for a performance of the 'Gurrelieder', 27 Jan. 1928; 1921-1933. Includes (f. 71) a postcard from Paris, saying that he had..., 1921-1933

Title: LETTERS TO EDWARD CLARK. Vol. II (ff. 193). L-W, including letters of:- (a) Arnold Schoenberg, mainly relating to arrangements for a performance of the 'Gurrelieder', 27 Jan. 1928; 1921-1933. Includes (f. 71) a postcard from Paris, saying that he had... 1921-1933

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=040-002001695&fn=search&vid=IAMS_VU2 View

Salazar, Adolfo, 1890-1958. Autograph letter signed, dated : Toledo June 26 1916, to G[eorges] Jean-Aubry, 1916 June 26.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Toledo June 26 1916, to G[eorges] Jean-Aubry, 1916 June 26.

Saying that he received from their friend R[ogelio del] Villar the news concerning the Spanish translation of Jean-Aubry's book La musique française d'ajourd'hui, that Nin's collaboration would have been invaluable but asking how they can accept his work without pay, discussing other aspects of Salazar's proposed translation, saying that Falla has agreed to write the preface--he is at present in Granada with Serge Diaghilev getting ideas for the performance by the Bailes Rusos [i.e. Ballets Russes] of his Noches en los jardines de España and that he will return in two or three days and begin writing the preface--, asking if Jean-Aubry wishes the dedication to the Guérit[t]es and Fauré's preface included in the translation, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270668670 View

Nin, Joaquín, 1879-1949. Granadina : cello and harp / Joaquín Nin ; transcribed by Carlos Salzedo (1932).

Title: Granadina : cello and harp / Joaquín Nin ; transcribed by Carlos Salzedo (1932). 1932.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (5 p.) ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/501813848 View

Harding, Charles Alvar, 1915-. Charles Alvar Harding collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1970.

Title: Charles Alvar Harding collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1970.

The collection comprises autograph letters of musicians and literary figures, a few musical album leaves, some printed books, and many photographs. Most of the letters are written to Mr. Harding's great-uncle Richard Peyton, his grandfather Charles Harding, or his parents, Charles Copeley and Louise Alvar Harding (using the name Louise Alvar for her singing career). Some of the letters are written to Charles Alvar Harding himself. Among the musician letters in the Harding Collection are those of Georges Auric, Granville Bantock, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Alfredo Casella, Alfred Cortot, Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Louis Durey, Edward Elgar, Manuel de Falla, Louis Fleury, Eugene Goossens, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Ernesto Halffter, George Henschel, Constant Lambert, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Joaquín Nin, Adelina Patti, Maurice Ravel, Carl Rosa, Albert Roussel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Adolfo Salazar, Florent Schmitt, Andrés Segovia, Arthur Sullivan, Germaine Tailleferre, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Georgina Weldon, and Henry J. Wood. Letters of non-musicians include those of Arnold Bennett, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, G. Jean-Aubry, Salvador de Madariaga, André Maurois, Nancy Mitford, George Moore, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Freya Stark, and Paul Valéry.

ArchivalResource: ca. 750 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270107179 View

Nin, Joaquín, 1879-1949. Autograph letters signed (4), typewritten letters signed (3), telegram, and autograph postcard signed (also signed by G. Jean-Aubry), dated : Paris, 1921, 1927, and 1930, to Louise Alvar, 1921, 1927, and 1930.

Title: Autograph letters signed (4), typewritten letters signed (3), telegram, and autograph postcard signed (also signed by G. Jean-Aubry), dated : Paris, 1921, 1927, and 1930, to Louise Alvar, 1921, 1927, and 1930.

Concerning concert and travel plans, recalling at length his visit with her in London, mentioning Alicita Felici, [Georges] Jean-Aubry, Ernesto Halffter, Falla, the Anglo Spanish Music Society, Mrs. Sieff ("une riche juive" who has organized an "at home" with Spanish music sung by "notre 'diva' nationale Conchita Supervia" and accompanied by Nin), Sigrid and Charlie [Harding], and other persons, etc.; with a telegram from Alvar to Nin.

ArchivalResource: 9 items (24 p., with 7 envelopes.) ; (4to and obl. 24mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270582973 View