Damrosch - Tee Van collection, 1856-1969 (bulk 1870-1939).

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Damrosch - Tee Van collection, 1856-1969 (bulk 1870-1939).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71129925

The collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, writings, manuscript and printed music, financial and legal papers, programs, scrapbooks, artwork and photographs. The papers of L. Damrosch consist of correspondence (including a copy of a letter from Liszt), a few examples of writings, four scores (including his piano vocal score of Berlioz Requiem), and biographical materials. A large portion of the Damrosch family papers that included the bulk of their correspondence with Liszt, Wagner, von Bülow and others was destroyed in a fire in 1887. F. Damrosch and other Damrosch family members were in correspondence with Harold Bauer, Andrew Carnegie, Edward Elgar, Percy Grainger, Josef Hofmann, Gustav Mahler, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

around 600 items (10 boxes, 8 linear feet).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8076565

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