Scope and Content Note
The Robert Saladini Collection of Choral Music consists largely of printed choral works in octavo format collected by Saladini, a former staff member of the Library of Congress Music Division. These materials were compiled in the course of his work as an organist and choirmaster at churches in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., areas from the early 1970s until 2000. The materials span from the 1860s through 1999, with the bulk dating from 1960 to 1975. Although most of the works have sacred themes, a significant number of secular pieces are represented as well.
Many of these titles were published in the United States or United Kingdom. Composers with significant quantities of material represented include Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Dietrich Buxtehude, William Byrd, George Frideric Handel, Gustav Holst, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, among others.