Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, 1872-1992

Collection Summary

Title	Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, 1872-1992
Span Dates	1872-1992
Bulk Dates	(bulk 1919-1943)
Call No.	ML31.R33
Creator	Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943
Extent	17,668 items
Extent	89 containers
Extent	68.6 linear feet
Extent	6 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in Russian, English, French, and German
Location	Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu015003
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2014571125
Summary	Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. The Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive contains material related to his life and career after he and his family left Russia in 1917 to establish themselves in the United States. The archive contains Rachmaninoff's holograph music manuscripts, correspondence, writings, biographical articles and clippings, awards and honors, concert programs, scrapbooks, financial papers, iconography, realia, and published books and other materials held within the personal library of Rachmaninoff and his family. A section is also devoted to the papers of Sophie Satin, the composer's sister-in-law and biographer. This section contains Satin's writings, as well as the results of her lifelong research on Rachmaninoff.
Online Content	Digital versions of the materials in boxes 13-21 are available onsite in Stacks. Please note that restrictions may apply to the reproduction of the images contained within these digital files.