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1. Alberto Nepomuceno collection, 1887-1988

   approximately 150 items. 6 boxes. 3 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Alberto Nepomuceno was a Brazilian composer, conductor, and teacher. The collection consists primarily of scores, most of which are photocopies of holographs, including two operas, nine orchestral, and twelve chamber and solo works, as well as approximately forty songs and other vocal works. In addition, the collection contains several photographs of the composer and his wife and other printed materials.

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2. Randolph S. Rothschild collection, 1942-1992

   approximately 225 items. 11 boxes. 6 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Randolph S. Rothschild Collection consists primarily of music and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music in the collection is facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from American composers such as Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Ernst Krenek, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, and Charles Wuorinen. Many of these scores are inscribed to Rothschild and signed by the composers, and a few include programs and reviews of the concerts at which they were performed.

3. Nikolai Lopatnikoff collection, 1916-1979

   around 1085 items. 27 boxes. 37 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection includes music, manuscript and printed, of Lopatnikoff, as well as of other composers; correspondence and personal papers; photographs, clippings, and programs; writings by and about Lopatnikoff; and offical documents. A significant amount of material is related to Lopatnikoff's opera Danton. Among the correspondents are Rudolf Bing, Aaron Copland, Serge Koussevitzky, Joseph Rosenstock, Julius Rudel, Nicolas Slonimsky, and William Steinberg.

4. Charles Tournemire collection, circa 1868-1962

   67 items. 9 containers. 5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Charles Tournemire was a French composer, organist, and teacher. The collection chiefly consists of holograph, manuscript and printed music by Tournemire and other composers. Also included are several libretti, one scrapbook, and other annotated or inscribed materials.

5. Christopher Dodrill collection on John Philip Sousa, 1876-1992

   approximately 300 items. 11 containers. 1 mapcase folder. 5.4 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   John Philip Sousa was an American composer, bandmaster, and arranger, known for his military and patriotic marches. Christopher Dodrill is an educator and noted Sousa researcher and collector. The collection includes many first editions of Sousa’s marches and concert works in mint condition, as well as many rare European editions of his works. It also contains published sheet music, photographs, promotional posters, advertisements, and posthumously produced commemorative mementoes.

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6. Leopold Stokowski materials, 1910-1959

   35 items. 1 container plus 3 bound scores. 1 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Leopold Stokowski was a British-born conductor and composer perhaps best known for his role as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Leopold Stokowski Materials consist of manuscript scores for his transcriptions of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Modest Mussorgsky, correspondence with prominent composers including Jean Sibelius and Carl Orff, and Arnold Schoenberg’s self-portrait Vision (1910).

7. Alexander Zemlinsky music manuscripts and other papers, 1887-1939

   approximately 350 items. 28 containers. 8 linear feet. 13 microfilm reels. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Alexander Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, pianist, and educator whose students included Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alma Mahler, and Anton Webern. The collection consists of holograph music manuscripts for nearly all of Zemlinsky’s repertoire, as well as some printed music. Other materials include manuscript and printed music by other composers, personal papers, correspondence, and writings by others.

8. McKim Fund collection, 1929-2021

   approximately 200 items. 14 containers plus bound items. 21 linear feet. 154 digital files (14.7 GB). -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Leonora Jackson and William Duncan McKim Fund at the Library of Congress was established in 1970 to commission works for violin and piano, sponsor a series of concerts at the Library of Congress, and to purchase letters by prominent composers. The collection includes scores for the commissioned musical works, programs from the sponsored concerts, and all purchased letters. Newly commissioned materials will be added to the finding aid as they are received.

9. Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson music and other papers, 1914-1970

   approximately 300 items. 5 containers. 1.25 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson comprised the piano duo Bartlett and Robertson, who were active in the first half of the twentieth century. They met as students at the Royal Academy of Music and married in 1921, forming their piano duo shortly thereafter. The collection includes primarily manuscript music, both newly composed works for piano duet and two-piano transcriptions and arrangements, as well as compositions written by Bartlett and Robertson. Of note are holograph scores of commissions for the duo by Benjamin Britten, Arnold Bax, and others. Also included are writings, programs, correspondence, and other papers pertaining to Bartlett and Robertson's careers and personal lives.

10. Music of the Sousa Band and Victor Grabel, 1861-1954

    approximately 2,600 items. 26 containers. 9 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Conductor, composer, and arranger John Philip Sousa shared a portion of his early music library with fellow band conductor, composer, and arranger Victor Grabel, a small section of which comprises this collection. The materials include arrangements and transcriptions of songs, arias, overtures, dances, and suites created for the Sousa Band, printed arrangements, and original compositions by Sousa and Grabel. The works are chiefly represented by printed and manuscript parts.