Hunt-Berol Sheet Music Collection, Sheet music, 18th cent.-20th cent.

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Hunt-Berol Sheet Music Collection, Sheet music, 18th cent.-20th cent.

Sheet music from the 18th-20th centuries, primarily 19th century American.

240 linear ft (ca. 25,000 items in 570 boxes & 1 oversize folder).

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Berol, Alfred C., 1892-

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Alfred C. Berol (1892-1974), who assembled this collection, was the president of the Eagle Pencil Company (later renamed Berol Corp.) of Danbury, Connecticut. Though an avid collector of a wide array of rare books and manuscripts, Berol was a particularly ardent collector of Lewis Carroll materials. Lewis Carroll, the pseudonym used by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England in 1832. He was a writer, teacher, photography enthusiast, mathematician and Oxford don. While ...

Foster, Stephen Collins

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Stephen Collins foster was born in Pittsburgh in 1826. He wasnaturally inclined to music and he wrote over one hundred and seventy songs in his short life. He traveled to New Orleans and New York to compose music but still came back to Pittsburgh, where he died in 1864. From the description of Stephen Foster Collins collection 1931-1932 [typescripts]. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48010401 Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchest...

Hunt, Arthur Billings, 1890-1971,

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Baritone, musical director, broadcaster. From the description of Arthur Billings Hunt records, [ca. 1750]-1947. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102563 ...

Carr, Benjamin

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Philadelphia composer, organist, and music publisher. From the description of Letters to John Rowe Parker, 1818-1822. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63615083 Composed 1799 on the death of George Washington. This arrangement 1975. First performance of this arrangement Richmond, Virginia, 1 December 1975, Richmond Sinfonia, Jacques Houtmann conductor, Sandra Ruggles soprano.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dead march &am...