Administrative Information
Provenance
Gifts by multiple members of the Korngold family, 1980-2013
Accruals
Future accruals are possible.
Processing History
The Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collection was processed in the early 1990s. Stephanie Akau processed additions to the collection, and revised and coded the finding aid in 2020. Stephanie Akau processed additions to the collection, and revised and coded the finding aid in 2022.
Transfers
Eleven 0.25 inch open reel magnetic tape sound recordings from the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collection have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collection (MAVIS collection no. 17497). An inventory of this material is available is in the Music Division's collection file.
Other Repositories
The Ӧsterreichische Nationalbibliothek and Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, and the New York Public Library archives contain other materials by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Related Material
Correspondence by Erich Wolfgang Korngold can be found in the Serge Koussevitzky Archive and Nicolas Slonimsky Collection. Several photocopied and printed scores and parts are located in the Jascha Heifetz Collection. The Julius Korngold Autograph Letters to Unidentified Recipients contains correspondence from Julis Korngold.
Microfilm
Music manuscripts from boxes 1-38 of the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collection are available on 17 reels of microfilm cataloged as Microfilm 2008/20,001 . These materials are described as part of the finding aid. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm .
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.