Scope and Content Note
Materials in the Rose Marie and Harold Spivacke Fund Collection span the years 1615 through 1994, with the majority of the items dating between 1880 and 1978. The Music Manuscripts and Printed Music series consist of both popular and classical works, including holograph and copyist manuscripts for the works of Irving Berlin, Samuel Barber, Hugo Felix, Franz Liszt, Richard Rodgers, Victor Herbert, and Fats Waller. The Papers series is comprised of correspondence, clippings, and programs related to composers and other musicians represented in other Music Division collections. Alban Berg, Leonard Bernstein, Johannes Brahms, George and Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein, Victor Herbert, Franz Liszt, Cole Porter, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky are some of the prominent figures represented in this series. The Iconography series includes portraits and photographs of Alban Berg, Billie Burke, Victor Herbert, and Mary Martin.