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BOX 70-81 Books and Publications, 1886-1973
Includes primarily published books, journals, monographs and magazines held within the personal libraries of SR, Sophie Satin, and/or their family members. The contents of Boxes 70 through 76 represent publications that are either annotated or not otherwise held within LC's collections. The contents of Boxes 77 through 81 represent material that is either unannotated or duplicated within the LC's collections.
Arrangement is alphabetical by author or title.
BOX-FOLDER 74/1 Academy of Music (Philadelphia). Concert program, 18 May 1891
For a concert featuring Pëtr Il'ich Tchaikovsky conducting the Boston Festival Orchestra in a performance of his Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 23, with Adele aus der Ohe as piano soloist, as well as his Suite for string orchestra [sic: Serenade, op. 48?] for string orchestra.
Extremely fragile condition.
BOX 70 Alekseev, A. D. [Aleksandr Dmitrievich].
S. V. Rakhmaninov. ZHizn' i tvorcheskaia deiatel'nost' (=S. V. Rachmaninoff. Life and creative activities). Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1954.
BOX 77 Alekseev, A. D. [Aleksandr Dmitrievich].
S. V. Rakhmaninov. ZHizn' i tvorcheskaia deiatel'nost' (=S. V. Rachmaninoff. Life and creative activities). Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1954.
BOX 77 Alekseeva, E. N., Pribegina, G. A., and Tumanina, N. V., editors.
Vospominaniia oMoskovskoĭ konservatorii (=Reminiscences about the Moscow Conservatory). Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Muzyka," 1966.
BOX-FOLDER 74/2 Al'shvang, A. [Arnol'd].
"Kolokola" S. Rakhmaninova (="The Bells" by S. Rachmaninoff).
Published in two formats with identical text: as a one-page, single folio, and as a small program book by the Moscow State Philharmonic for the 1940-41 season.
BOX 77 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Biographical Dictionary. Third edition. New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1966.
BOX 70 American Record Guide, 33, no. 2 (October 1966)
Includes annotations by Sophie Satin.
BOX 72 Apetian, Z.
"Ostorozhno: poshlost'!" (=Caution: Vulgarity!) Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 5 (May 1964)
BOX 70, 77 Apetian, Zarui Apetovna, editor.
Vospominaniia o Rakhmaninove. Tom 1-2 (=Reminiscences about Rachmaninoff. Volume 1-2), first edition. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1957.
Three copies.
BOX 70, 77 Apetian, Z., editor.
Vospominaniia o Rakhmaninove. Tom 1-2 (=Reminiscences about Rachmaninoff. Volume 1-2), second edition. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1961.
Three copies of Volume 2.
BOX 70 Asaf'ev, B. V.
Akademik B. V. Asaf'ev. Izbrannye trudy. Tom II (=Selected works. Volume 2). Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1954.
BOX 79 Asaf'ev, B. [Boris].
"O russkoĭ prirode i russkoĭ muzyke" (=On the nature of Russians and Russian music), Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 5 (July 1948)
BOX 70 Auer, Leopold.
My long life in music. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925.
BOX 77 Av'erino, N. K.
Muzykal'nye razgovory. Raskol dirizher i orkestr (=Musical conversations. The division of conductor and orchestra). New York: Greenwich Printing, 1947.
BOX 70 Bazhanov, N. [Nikolai] .
Rakhmaninov. (ZHizn' zamechatel'nykh liudeĭ. Seriia biografii. Vypusk 19) (=Rachmaninoff. (Life of remarkable people), volume 19) Moskva: Izdatel'stvo TSK VLKSM [ЦК ВЛКСМ], MolodaiaGvardiia, 1966.
This volume contains corrections by Sophie Satin.
BOX 70 Bazhanov, N. [Nikolai] .
Rakhmaninov. (ZHizn' zamechatel'nykh liudeĭ. Seriia biografii. Vypusk 23) (=Rachmaninoff. (Life of remarkable people), volume 23)Moskva: Izdatel'stvo TSK VLKSM [ЦК ВЛКСМ], Molodaia Gvardiia, 1966.
BOX-FOLDER 75/10 Belousov, V.
"Restavratsiia doma S. V. Rakhmaninova v Ivanovke" (=Restoration of Rachmaninoff's house at Ivanovka). Muzykal'naia zhizn', No. 14 (June 1971)
BOX 70, 77 Belza, I. F. [Igor'], editor.
Rakhmaninov i russkaia opera. Sbornik stateĭ (=S. V. Rachmaninoff and Russian opera. A Collection of articles). Moskva: Vserossiĭskoe Teatral'noe Obshchestvo, 1947.
Three copies.
BOX 70 Belza, I. F. [Igor'].
S. V. Rakhmaninov. Populiarnyĭ ocherk (=S. V. Rachmaninoff. Popular study). Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1946.
Two copies.
BOX 77 Berlioz, Hector.
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. Translated from the French by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes and Eleanor Holmes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.
Annotated and edited by Ernest Newman.
BOX 80 Bertensson, Sergei.
"Rachmaninoff as I Knew Him." Etude, Vol. LXVI, no. 3 (March 1948)
BOX 70 Bertensson, Sergei, Leyda, Jay, and Satin, Sophia.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music. New York: New York University Press, 1956.
Two copies.
Both copies contain annotations by Satin.
BOX-FOLDER 76/10 Boelza, Igor [Igor' Belza].
"Sergei Rachmaninov." Soviet Literature, (January 1946)
BOX 70 Bogdanov-Berezovskiĭ, V., editor.
Molodye gody Sergeia Vasil'evicha Rakhmaninova. Pis'ma. Vospominaniia (=Sergei Vasil'evich Rachmaninoff's Youthful Years. Letters. Reminiscences). Leningrad/ Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1949
Two copies.
Both copies contain emendations by Sophie Satin.
BOX 77 Bowen, Catherine Drinker.
Free artist; The Story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein. New York: Random House, 1939.
BOX 70 Briantseva, V. N. [Vera Nikolaevna].
Detstvo i iunost' Sergeia Rakhmaninova (=The childhood and youth of Sergei Rachmaninoff). Moskva: Vsesoiuznoe Izdatel'stvo "Sovetskiĭ Kompozitor," 1970.
BOX-FOLDER 74/14 Bukinik, Michael.
"Reminiscences of Young Rachmaninoff," Local 802. Official journal of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York [American Federation of Musicians], Vol. XVII, no. 7 (May 1943)
BOX-FOLDER 74/3 Bulletin, April 1928. London: Ibbs & Tillett, 1928.
BOX 70 Bunin, Iv. [Ivan].
Izbrannye stikhi (=Selected poems). Parizh [Paris]: Izdatel'stvo "Sovremennyia Zapiski," 1929.
BOX 70, 77 Charton, J.-M. [Jean-Marie].
Les Années françaises de Serge Rachmaninoff (=The French years of Sergei Rachmaninoff). Paris: Éditions de la Revue Moderne, 1969.
Two copies.
BOX 81 Chasins, Abram.
"The Rachmaninoff Legacy – I." Saturday Review, 29 October 1955.
BOX 81 Chasins, Abram.
"The Rachmaninoff Legacy – II." Saturday Review, 26 November 1955.
BOX-FOLDER 74/4 Chekhov, A. P. [Anton Pavlovich].
Dama s sobachkoĭ (=The Lady with the dog). Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo KHudozhestvennoĭ Literatury, 1948.
BOX 77 Chertkov, V. G. [Vladimir Grigor'evich].
Ukhod Tolstogo (=Tolstoy's departure [Last days of Tolstoy]). Berlin: Izdatel'stvo I. P. Ladyzhnikova, 1922.
BOX 70 Cheshikhin, Vsevolod.
Istoriia russkoĭ opery (s 1674 po 1903 g.). Tom 1-ĭ (=History of Russian opera, from 1674 to 1903. Volume 1). Moskva: P. IUrgenson, 1905.
Laid in: Prokin, N. G. Kratkoe rukovodstvo k izucheniiu istorii muzyki (=Brief guide to the study of music history). Moskva: A. Gun, 1916.
BOX 70 Commarano, S.
Il Trovatore. A Grand opera in four acts. New York: Fred. Kullman, undated
Contains musical examples in score (melody with lyrics only) for the work's principal arias.
Libretto to Verdi's opera produced in conjunction with a production at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
BOX 77 Cooke, Charles.
Playing the piano for pleasure. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
Bears an inscription to Rachmaninoff from Cooke.
BOX 70 Cooke, James Francis.
Great pianists on piano playing. Philadelphia: Theo. Presser Co., 1917.
Contains article by SR, titled "Essentials of Artistic Playing."
BOX 71, 77 Culshaw, John.
Sergei Rachmaninov. London: Dennis Dobson, 1949.
Two copies.
BOX 77 Davies, Joseph E.
Mission to Moscow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
BOX-FOLDER 74/5 Den' russkago rebënka. Vypusk XI-yĭ (=Day of the Russian child. Eleventh issue. (April 1944). N. V. Borzov, editor. San Francisco, 1944.
BOX 71, 77 Dobuzhinskiĭ, M. V. [Mstislav Valerianovich], editor.
Pamiati Rakhmaninova (=Memories of Rachmaninoff). New York: S. A. Satina, 1946.
Three copies.
BOX 71 Emel'ianova, N. N..
S. V. Rakhmaninov v Ivanovke (=S. V. Rachmaninoff at Ivanovka). Voronezh: Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1971.
Two copies.
BOX-FOLDER 74/6 Etude. Vol. XXXVII, no. 10 (October 1919)
The cover page of this magazine designates it as the "Rachmaninoff Number."
BOX-FOLDER 74/7 Etude. Vol. LIX, no. 12 (December 1941)
Contains an article by SR titled "Music Should Speak from the Heart."
BOX 77 Fedin, Konst [Konstantin].
Pokhishchenie Evropy. Roman. Pervaia kniga (=The Abduction of Europe. Novel. First book). Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Pisatelei, 1934.
BOX 71 Galsworthy, John.
Memories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919.
BOX 71 Garin, F., editor.
Izgnanie Napoleona iz Moskva. Sbornik (=Exile of Napoleon from Moscow. Collection of articles). [Moskva:] Moskovskiĭ Rabochiĭ, 1938.
BOX 71 Gately, Francis Cabrini.
Musical mileage. Paterson, NJ: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1940.
Annotated by Sophie Satin.
BOX-FOLDER 74/9 Giĭl'iar, P'er [Gilliard, Pierre].
Tragicheskaia sud'ba rossiĭskoĭ imperatorskoĭ sem'i (=The Tragic fate of the Russian Imperial family). Konstantinopol' [Constantinople], 1921.
BOX 74/10 Glebov, Igor'.
Manfred (Baĭrona – SHumana) (=Manfred, of Byron and of Schumann), 1922.
Program book for a concert by the State Philharmonic.
Laid in: clipping describing contemporary cultural events in Moscow.
BOX 76/13 Glebov, Igor.
"Rachmaninoff." VOKS Bulletin, No. 5-6 (1943)
BOX 71 Gliebov [Glebov], Igor'.
CHaĭkovskiĭ [Tchaikovsky]. Peterburg/Berlin: Svietozar, 1923.
BOX 71 Goul, Roman.
Toukhatchevsky. Maréchal rouge. Translated from the Russian by J. Civel. Paris: Bibliothèque du Hérisson/Société Française d'Éditions Littéraires et Techniques, 1935?
BOX 77 Gronowicz, Antoni.
Sergei Rachmaninoff. Translated from the Polish by Samuel Sorgenstein and Edna Ruth Johnson. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946.
BOX 80 Henderson, A. M.
"Rachmaninoff as I Knew Him." Etude, Vol. 72, no. 4 (April 1954)
BOX 71 Hessen, Sergius.
"Tolstoj als Pädagoge." Die Erziehung, undated.
BOX-FOLDER 74/8 Hofmann, Josef.
"What is the Purpose of Music Study?" Etude, (November 1944)
BOX 81 Holcman, Jan.
"Hidden Treasures of Rachmaninoff." Saturday Review, (30 August 1958)
BOX 77 Holt, Richard, editor.
Nicolas Medtner (1879-1951). A Tribute to his art and personality. London: Dennis Dobson, 1955
BOX-FOLDER 76/4 Ilëshin, Boris.
"Svoboda i golubye nebesa" (=Freedom and blue skies) Ogonëk, No. 39 (2308) (25 September 1971)
BOX 71 Il'f, Il'ia and Petrov, Evgeniĭ.
Tonia. Rasskazy, stat'i (="Tonia." Stories, articles). Moskva: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1932.
BOX 71 Ipat'ev, V. N. ZHizn' odnogo khimika.
Vospominaniia. Tom 1: 1867-1917 (=Life of a chemist. Memoirs. Volume 1: 1867-1917). New York, 1945.
BOX 79 "Iz arkhiva K. N. Igumonova" (=From the archive of K. N. Igumonov). Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 1 (1946)
Contains published correspondence between Igumonov and SR.
BOX 79 "Iz perepiski S. V. Rakhmaninova (pis'ma k V. R. Vil'shau)" (=From the correspondence of S. V. Rachmaninoff: Letters to V. R. Vil'shau). Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 2 (March/April 1948)
BOX 81 Jacobson, Robert.
"The Vocal Rachmaninoff." Opera news, Vol. 38, no. 8 (22 December 1973)
BOX 71 Kalashnikov, Dmitriĭ.
SHkol'nikam o S. V. Rakhmaninove (=School years of S. V. Rachmaninoff). Voronezh: TSentral'no-CHernozemnoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1969.
Contains brief emendations by Sophie Satin.
BOX 80 Kastal'skiĭ, A.
Osobennosti narodno-russkoĭ muzykal'noĭ sistemy (=Features of Russian folksong's musical system). Moskva/Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Muzykal'nyĭ Sektor, 1923.
Two copies.
BOX 77 Keith, Agnes Newton.
Land below the wind. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939.
BOX 77 KHentova, S.
Emil' Gilel's (=Emil Gilels). Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1959.
BOX 71 Klimov, E. [Evgeniĭ].
Russkie zhenshchiny po izobrazheniiam russkikh khudozhnikov (=Russian women in the images of Russian artists). Washington, DC: Izdanie Russkogo Knizhnogo Dela v SSHA/Victor Kamkin, 1967.
BOX 72 Kogan, G.
"O Rakhmaninove" (=About Rachmaninoff). Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 4 (April 1958)
BOX 79 "Kompozitor kak interpretator" (=The Composer as interpreter). Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 2 (February 1955)
Interview with SR by Norman Cameron.
BOX-FOLDER 74/11 Korzukhin, I. A.
N. Rimskiĭ-Korsakov i Rikhard Vagner (=N. Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Wagner). Berlin: Tipografiia O. SHtol'berg i Ko., undated.
BOX-FOLDER 76/14 Kuznetsoff, Constantin [Konstantin Kuznetsov].
"Serge Rachmaninoff's Musical Life." VOKS Bulletin, No. 6 (1945)
Lachmund, Carl V.
Autographs of Great Musicians. A Souvenir
see Correspondence to SR: Lachmund, Carl V.
BOX 77 Langhans, Wilhelm.
The History of music in twelve lectures. Translated from the German by J. H. Cornell. Second edition. New York: G. Schirmer, 1886.
BOX 78 Leirens, Charles.
Belgian music. New York: Belgian Information Center, 1943.
BOX 71 Leonov, Leonid.
Izbrannye proizvedeniia (=Selected works). Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo KHudozhestvennoĭ Literatury, 1932.
BOX 71 Lermontov, M. IU.
[Mikhaĭl IUr'evich] Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Tom pervyĭ, vtoroĭ, tretiĭ, chetvertyĭ (=Complete collected works. Volume 1-4). Berlin: Izdatel'stvo Slovo, 1921.
BOX-FOLDER 74/12 The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. Vol. 9, no. 1 (November 1951)
Two copies.
Contains report of acquisition of the Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive by the Library of Congress.
BOX-FOLDER 74/13 Life, Vol. 14, no. 15 (12 April 1943)
Contains article titled "Speaking of pictures... these are last taken of Rachmaninoff before death."
BOX 71 Livanova, T., Pekelis, M., Popova, T.
Istoriia russkoĭ muzyki. Tom I-II (=History of Russian music. Volume 1-2). Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1940.
BOX 71 Lockspeiser, Edward.
Debussy. English text. xi, 291 pages. London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1936
BOX 71, 78 Lyle, Watson.
Rachmaninoff: A Biography. London: William Reeves, 1939.
Two copies.
Copy 1 contains annotations by Sophie Satin.
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