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Scope and Content Note
The Leopold Stokowski Materials span the years 1910 through 1959, with of the majority of the items dating between 1936 and 1959. The Music series consists of Stokowski’s transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Modest Mussorgsky, including two transcriptions Stokowski created for Walt Disney’s motion picture Fantasia (1940). The Correspondence series includes signed typescript letters that composers Reinhold Glière, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Jean Sibelius wrote to Stokowski, as well as a signed holograph letter from Carl Orff. Arnold Schoenberg’s self-portrait, Vision (1910), comprises the Artwork series.