Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift; Mary Virginia Foreman Le Garrec; 1997.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Mary Virginia Foreman Le Garrec Collection on Artur Schnabel was processed by Kevin LaVine in 2006. The finding aid was coded for EAD format by Nancy Seeger in 2011.
Transfers
One acetate disc of Schnabel speaking, recorded at HMV Studios in London on June 6, 1950, was transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division in March 2001.
Related Material
The Library of Congress Music Division also holds the Artur Schnabel Collection which primarily consists of music manuscript scores of Schnabel’s compositions. The manuscripts are all, with the exception of a single copyist’s score, in Schnabel’s hand, and represent his compositional essays in a variety of genres, from solo song (voice and piano) to symphonic works. The collection also contains an early published edition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s sonatas for solo piano, containing copious annotations in Schnabel’s hand, and on which he apparently based his 1935 edition of these works.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Mary Virginia Foreman Le Garrec Collection on Artur Schnabel, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.