Historical Note
Rose Marie Grentzer Spivacke (1914-1985) was a music educator who helped raise awareness about and fostered scholarship on audio-visual aids, international music education, and American music. After leading and enhancing music education programs at Juilliard, the University of Michigan, and Oberlin, she developed the graduate program in music education at the University of Maryland. In 1982, she established the Rose Marie and Harold Spivacke Fund Collection in the Music Division at the Library of Congress in honor of her husband, Harold Spivacke (July 18, 1904 - May 19, 1977), who was a musicologist, music librarian, and head of the Music Division from 1937 to 1972. The fund's purpose is to assist the Library in expanding the Music Division collections through the acquisition of music manuscripts, books, papers, and other related materials.