Administrative Information
Provenance
Acquired in 1953 as a gift from Anna Mikhaĭlovna Bratenskaya Medtner (widow of Nikolay Medtner), with additional gifts by Sofiia Aleksandrovna Satina, Olga Conus (Konius), and Dr. Alfred J. Swan.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Nikolay Karlovich Medtner Papers were processed by Patrick Domico and George Kipper in 2011. George Kipper coded the finding aid for EAD format in 2011.
Other Repositories
Institutions with significant Medtner holdings include: the Glinka Museum in Moscow (a large source of Medtner materials, especially pre-1921); British Library in London (six boxes of materials collected by Medtner pupil Edna Iles which includes manuscripts, correspondence, notes, and scores annotated in Medtner's hand); University of Leeds Special Collections Library in England (an unknown quantity of private papers, diaries, letters, photographs, ephemera and audio cassettes presumably related to Medtner's acquaintance with Richard Holt); University of Virginia Special Collections Library in Charlottesville, Va. (the Alfred Swan Papers includes correspondence, diaries, and other source materials for Swan's writings on Medtner); Library and Archives of Canada in Ottawa (the Alfred Laliberté fonds Collection contains significant correspondence, a few manuscripts, and other materials); and a privately owned archive recently acquired by Yevgeny Sudbin.
Related Material
The Library of Congress Music Division holds numerous special collections that contain correspondence, music, or publications related to Nikolay Medtner. These include: the Rachmaninoff Archives (documents); the Jascha Heifetz Collection (including holograph scores and printed scores of Heifetz's arrangement of Medtner's Skazka, op. 20/1); the Nicolas Slonimsky Collection (printed scores that include Medtner's music; pamphlet on Medtner by Richard Holt); the Serge Koussevitzky Archive (two letters by Medtner to Koussevitzky); the Moldenhauer Archive (a holograph manuscript, including corrections/annotations of Medtner's Elegie, op. 52/3); and the Boris Koutzen Collection (printed scores of Medtner's Violin Sonata, op. 21 and Nocturne, op. 16/1, including performance annotations presumably by Koutzen).
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Nikolay Karlovich Medtner Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.