Elizabeth Hunter Morrill, American soprano with a special interest in 18-th century Italian opera. She met her husband F. Gordon Morrill in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1930s while he was studying at Harvard University and she at Radcliffe College. Upon earning a Masters degree in Architecture in 1937, Mr. Morrill traveled with his wife to Florence, Italy, where they remained for most of their lives. In 1960, Mr. Morrill became a founding member of the Villa I Tatti Council, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Together with Mrs. Morrill, an accomplished musician, they established the Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill Music Library at Villa I Tatti, considered the finest collection on Italian Medieval and Renaissance musicology in Italy. They also maintained residences in Massachusetts and Florida, and during their visits in the United States Mrs. Morrill came to know the holdings of opera scores and librettos in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Mr. Morrill died in 2000, and Mrs. Morrill in 2003.
From the description of Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Collection 1951-2001 (bulk ). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71129938
