Scope and Content Note
The Moldenhauer Archives consist of manuscript and printed music, correspondence, photographs, books, newspaper clippings, programs, drawings, and engravings. The items date from the twelfth to the twentieth century, and include documents of and related to composers, musicians, and literary figures, among others.
The music in the collection includes holograph scores or sketches, both published and unpublished, as well as a number of copyist and printed scores, transcriptions, and arrangements by composers and musicians, such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Ernst Bloch, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, César Franck, Felix Mendelssohn, Giacomo Puccini, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern.
Other composers, musicians, and literary figures that are represented by music and non-musical materials include Georges Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner, Charles Burney, Feruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, George Frideric Handel, Hermann Hesse, György Ligeti, Federico García Lorca, Pietro Metastasio, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino, among others.