Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift, Leopold Stokowski, 1954-1966
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Jane Cross processed the Leopold Stokowski Materials, and Jane Cross and Rachel McNellis coded the finding aid, in 2020.
Other Repositories
The University of Pennsylvania holds several collections related to Leopold Stokowski that contain his correspondence, financial records, other personal papers, conducting scores, orchestral transcriptions, a scrapbook, and sound recordings. The Leopold Stokowski Collection at the University of Maryland, College Park, houses correspondence, programs, clippings, a scrapbook, orchestral parts, and other memorabilia related to Stokowski.
Related Material
The Music Division contains many collections with correspondence, photographs, biographical materials, and writings that document Leopold Stokowski’s relationships with other prominent composers, conductors, and institutions. These are especially valuable because many of his personal papers were lost after falling off the deck of a ship during their transport from the United Kingdom to the United States. The Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection includes several articles and clippings on Stokowski’s All-American Youth Orchestra’s tour of South America, the Serge Koussevitzky Archive contains business papers related to Stokowski’s involvement with the American Music Festival, and the Boris Koutzen Collection includes papers pertaining to Stokowski’s involvement with the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
Additional notable collections containing papers related to Stokowski include the Leonard Bernstein Collection, George Antheil correspondence with Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection, Andre Kostelanetz Collection, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, Nicholas Slonimsky Collection, Music Division Old Correspondence, Leonard B. Smith Papers, and the correspondence classed in ML95.S94, among many others.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Leopold Stokowski Materials, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.