Papers and autographs, 1788-1891.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Cécile, 1817-1853

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Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy was the wife of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the mother of the historian Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy and of the chemist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdu....

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

David, Ferdinand, 1810-1873

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German violinist and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Uppingham, to Arthur Sullivan, 1868 Aug. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125551 German violinist, composer, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Leipzig, 8 June 1866, to Julius [Rietz?], 1866 June 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565399 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Leipzig, 5 May 1856, to Herr [Bartolf Wil...

Körner, Christian Gottfried, 1756-1831

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Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870

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Printed before 1826.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto no. 2 in E♭ für pianoforte, op. 56 / Moscheles. [18--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42677061 German pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Leipzig ; and Belgrade, to Arthur Sullivan, 1864 Mar. 26 to 1869 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125351 German pianist. From the description of [Allegro spir...

Cicero's

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Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907

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Hungarian-German violinist and composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : 13 Airlie Street, Campden Hill, W., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, [n.y.] Mar. 26 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125464 Canadian tenor and opera impresario of Welsh and Irish descent. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Salzburg, 18 July [n.y.], to an unidentified recipient, 1937 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578670 C...

Horsley, Charles Edward, 1822-1876

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Horsley was a minor composer who studied under Hauptmann in Germany, emigrated to Australia and ended up in New York. From the description of Impropmtu at leaving Melbourne, 1867 [manuscript]. 1867. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225267851 English composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London] June 29 1844, to [Felix] Mendelssohn, 1844 June 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666461 Composer and musician. ...

Hauptmann, Moritz, 1792-1868

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German composer, theorist, and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Leipzig June 28 1865, to [Moritz Fürstenau in Dresden?], 1865 June 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665476 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Leipzig Sept. 17 1861, to an unidentified Kammermusiker, 1861 Sept. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665480 From the description of "Canon für 8 Geigen" : autograph manuscript, 1861 May 26. (U...

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.

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Unitarian minister and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1850 Nov. 5, Boston, to Charles Mason. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 170925855 Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Unitarian minister, social reformer, and publicist, was born in Lexington, Mass., a grandson of Captain John Parker (1729-1775) of Revolutionary fame. Parker graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1836, became minister of West Roxbury, and proceeded to develop his theological and social ...

Schumann, Robert

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Originally composed for solo piano, 1833-1835. Collaborative orchestration of the score, 1908-1909, for the use of the Russian Imperial Ballet. No indication is given of each collaborator's contribution. First performance as a ballet St. Petersburg, 1910. First concert performance, Boston, 25 November 1938, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Carnival / Robert Schumann ; orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazounov, Li...

Klingemann, C.

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Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000162 ...

Auerbach, Berthold, 1812-1882

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Auerbach, German novelist. Charles W. Eliot, C.C. Felton, and Edward Everett, Presidents of Harvard College. From the description of Letters, 1847-1872. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41417354 Author, 1812-1882 From the guide to the Berthold Auerbach Collection, circa 1844-1992, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) ...

Louise Dresel

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Dresel, Otto, 1826-1890

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Dresel was a concert pianist and composer who was born in Germany and settled in Boston, Mass. From the guide to the Papers and autographs, 1788-1891., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Dresel was a German concert pianist and composer who emigrated to the U.S. From the description of Papers, ca. 1845-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122419388 From the guide to the Otto Dresel papers, 1845-1891., (Houghton Libr...

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896

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German pianist and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Düsseldorf, 20 December 1856, to an unidentified recipient in Leipzig, 1856 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270900002 From the description of Autograph letter signed Clara Wieck, dated : Liebenstein Aug. 23 1840, to Herr [Ernest?] Montag in Weimar, 1840 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270669575 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Baden-B...

Hiller, Ferdinand, 1811-1885

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German conductor, composer, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Cologne, 10 January 1876, to an unidentified baron, 1876 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899993 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Cologne, 2 April 1874, to Miss Goddard, 1874 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899972 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Hamburg], 12 July 1882, to [Ferdinand?] Breunung, ...

Otto Dresel

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Hallé, Charles, 1819-1895

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English pianist and composer of German birth. From the description of Clipped signature. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665302 German-English pianist and conductor. From the description of Autograph letters signed : 10 Grunheys, Manchester, to Arthur Sullivan, 1862 Nov. 30 to 1868 Ja. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125488 English pianist and conductor of German birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Manchest...

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886

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Note at end says "Original mss. in Weimar--date 1851. First published by Meyer in 1854--later by Litolff. Never been orchestrated--either by Liszt or anyone else."--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Scherzo and March / Franz Liszt ; orchestrated by Arthur Hartmann. [c1934]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 69683005 Composed originally for solo piano, 1849, on the deaths of Prince Felix Lichnowsky, Count Ladislaus Teleky and Count Lajos Ba...

Charles Edward Brown-Séquard

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Buddeus, Aurelio, b. 1819.

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German author. Died 1880. From the description of Papers of Aurelio Buddeus, 1872-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452136 ...

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

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Dramatist and poet. From the description of Friedrich Schiller collection, 1883-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980966 German poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed "Sch." : Weimar, to W.G. Becker, 1804 Feb. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634316 From the description of Wilhelm Tell. Act I, Scene 4 : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned, [ca. 1804]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270635377 From the des...