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Found in 10 Collections and/or records:

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Found in: Music Division

Leonard Bernstein Collection

Identifier: ML31.B49
Abstract Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, writer, lecturer, and pianist. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, personal business papers, the archives from his corporate identity, Amberson Inc., scrapbooks, clippings and press materials, programs, datebooks and schedules, iconography, address books, and fan mail. In addition, it contains music manuscripts for many of his compositions, including The Age of Anxiety (Symphony no....
Dates circa 1900-1995; Majority of material found within ( 1933-1990)
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Found in: Music Division

Oliver Daniel Papers

Identifier: ML31.D36
Abstract

Oliver Daniel was an American arts administrator, musicologist, radio director and producer, and composer. The collection includes correspondence, manuscript and printed scores, photographs, programs, clippings, scrapbooks and periodicals.

Dates 1759-1997; Majority of material found within ( 1943-1985)
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Found in: Music Division

Irving Fine Collection

Identifier: ML31.F5
Abstract

Irving Fine was an American conductor, teacher, and composer whose works assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. The bulk of the materials in the collection are musical scores and sketches which represent nearly his entire musical output. In addition, there are photographs, clippings, programs, and scrapbooks, as well as correspondence from twentieth-century musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Alberto Ginastera, Ned Rorem, and William Schuman.

Dates 1930-1993; Majority of material found within ( 1950-1962)
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Found in: Music Division

Andre Kostelanetz Collection

Identifier: ML31.K65
Abstract Andre Kostelanetz was a conductor, arranger, and pianist known for juxtaposing popular and classical repertoire in radio broadcasts and concert performances with some of the world's leading orchestras. He also commissioned several compositions which have since become staples in the orchestral repertoire, including works by Aaron Copland, William Schuman, and Jerome Kern. The collection consists of his musical arrangements, correspondence, business papers, programs, photographs, clippings,...
Dates 1922-1984
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Found in: Music Division

Boris Koutzen Collection

Identifier: ML31.K68
Abstract Violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. The collection contains printed and photocopied manuscript music scores, negative photostats and microfilm of holograph music, correspondence, clippings, writings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, programs, photographs, manuscript articles, typewritten journals, printed biographical sketches, bound and unbound scrapbooks, and a printed catalog of Koutzen's compositions. It also includes correspondence and music belonging to his daughter, Nadia...
Dates 1889-2005; Majority of material found within ( 1954-1965)
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Found in: Music Division

Dorothy Slepian Packer Correspondence

Identifier: ML31.P33
Abstract

Dorothy Slepian Packer (1923-2014) was a musicologist, educator, and violinist from Boston, Massachusetts. The collection consists of Packer’s correspondence with prominent composers between 1945 and 1948. Significant writers and recipients include Samuel Barber, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Deems Taylor, Darius Milhaud, Morton Gould, William Grant Still, and Virgil Thomson.

Dates 1945-1948
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Found in: Music Division

Max Rudolf Papers

Identifier: ML31.R85
Abstract

Max Rudolf was a German-born American conductor and music educator. He is best known for his work with the Metropolitan Opera, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Curtis Institute of Music. The collection contains Rudolf's extensive correspondence with prominent 20th century musical figures, Metropolitan Opera annual files documenting his years with that organization, and a few photographs.

Dates 1922-1993; Majority of material found within ( 1945-1992)
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Found in: Music Division

A. P. Schmidt Company Archives

Identifier: ML31.A2
Abstract Arthur Paul Schmidt (1846-1921) was a German-born music publisher who pioneered the development and dissemination of American music. The A.P. Schmidt Company Archives documents his firm's publishing activites in Boston, Leipzig and New York, beginning with his tenure, through his successors, and until the firm was absorbed by Summy-Birchard in 1960. The Archives consists of the original manuscripts from which the music was printed, printed music, personal and corporate correspondence,...
Dates 1869-1958; Majority of material found within ( 1891-1951)
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Found in: Music Division

Louise Talma Papers

Identifier: ML31.T34
Abstract

Louise Talma was an American composer, pianist, and teacher. She was a student of Nadia Boulanger and a long-time resident of Fontainebleau and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The collection consists of music manuscripts, harmony and teaching materials, correspondence, photographs, business papers, clippings, programs, publicity materials, writings, awards and other materials related to her career and her family's history.

Dates 1861-1998; Majority of material found within 1906-1994
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Found in: Music Division

Roman Totenberg Papers

Identifier: ML31.T65
Abstract

Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and teacher. The collection contains annotated music scores, correspondence, business files, biographical materials, photographs, programs, clippings and other materials that document his life and career as a twentieth-century master of the violin.

Dates 1846-2011; Majority of material found within ( 1930s-2000s)