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Nikolai Lopatnikoff collection, 1916-1979

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Writings by Nikolai Lopatnikoff (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 22/23 Untitled. ("In my view..."); undated, 1 p. holograph draft. Subject: The status of music in modern society and speculations on its future.
BOX-FOLDER 22/23 Untitled. ("In my view..."); undated, 1 p., typed, with copy.
BOX-FOLDER 22/24 Untitled. ("It seems to me that the second half of this question..."); undated, 1 p. holograph draft. Subject: The role of harmony in aesthetic evaluation.
BOX-FOLDER 22/24 Untitled. ("It seems to me that the second half of this question..."); undated, 1 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 22/25 Untitled. ("Mr. Feldman mentioned discipline..."); undated, 6 p. holograph draft, and 1 p. typed, with annotations in NL's hand. Subject: Definitions of various musical terminology.
BOX-FOLDER 22/25 Untitled. ("Mr. Feldman mentioned discipline..."); undated, 1 p., typed, with copy.
BOX-FOLDER 22/26 Untitled. ("Music is a difficult art to explain..."); undated, 2 p., typed. Subject: Musical interpretation; the composer and his audience; music as a means of communication.
BOX-FOLDER 22/27 Untitled. ("My name is Nikolai Lopatnikoff..."); dated "circa 1965," 1 p. holograph draft. Subject: Biographical information.
BOX-FOLDER 22/28 Untitled. ("Triad up to 1700..."); undated, 1 p. holograph draft. Subject: An introduction to a lecture on creativity in contemporary music.
BOX-FOLDER 22/28 Untitled. ("Triad up to 1700..."); undated, 1 p., typed, with copy.
BOX-FOLDER 22/29 Untitled. ("We live in a predominantly..."); labelled "Carnegie Conference" in NL's hand, undated, 6 p., typed. Subject: A discussion of the status of the creative artist in contemporary culture.
BOX 22 Writings about Nikolai Lopatnikoff
The Writings about Nikolai Lopatnikoff series consists of monographs and articles.
Arrangement is alphabetical by author and title.
BOX-FOLDER 22/30 Diamond, David. "Nikolai Lopatnikoff, 1903-1976," published in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, second series, no. 28. New York: 1978, p. 97-99.
BOX-FOLDER 22/31 Gilman, Lawrence. "Notes on the Program": Program notes for a New York Philharmonic Symphony Society concert featuring a performance of NL's Introduction and Scherzo, op. 10; undated, 2 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 22/32 Hillyer, Raphael. Program notes (English text) for a concert program, dated 1952 Mar 29, on which NL's Concertino, op. 30, was included; one two-fold program, 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 22/33 Author unknown. Published in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, second series, no. 14. New York: 1964. NL's election to the Institute is noted on p. 323.
BOX-FOLDER 22/34 Author unknown. Program notes (English text) regarding NL's Introduction and Scherzo, op. 10; undated, 2 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 22/35 Author unknown. Program notes (German text) regarding NL and his Concerto no. 2, op. 15, for piano and orchestra; undated, 3 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 22/36 Author unknown. Program notes (English text) regarding NL's Concerto, op. 26, for violin and orchestra; undated, 1 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 22/37 Author unknown. Program notes for a Cleveland Orchestra concert program book regarding NL's life and work; undated, 1 p.
BOX-FOLDER 22/38 Author unknown (possibly NL). "Early Articles about Nikolai Lopatnikoff," undated, 1 p., typed, with copy. Subject: Bibliography.
BOX 23 Press Reviews and Articles Relating to Nikolai Lopatnikoff, 1920-1979
The Press Reviews and Articles Relating to Nikolai Lopatnikoff series consists of a scrapbook and clippings.
Arranged is by format and chronological by date.
BOX-FOLDER 23/1 Press clippings: 1920-1939 (17 items).
BOX-FOLDER 23/2 Press clippings: 1940-1949 (30 items).
BOX-FOLDER 23/3 Press clippings: 1950-1959 (22 items).
BOX-FOLDER 23/4 Press clippings: 1960-1979 (26 items).
BOX 23 Scrapbook, brass-covered, containing press reviews and articles regarding NL; inclusive dates: 1921 Apr 2 through 1950 Feb 15.
BOX 24 Biographical Data
The Biographical Data series consists of family geneology and brief histories of the Nikolai Lopatnikoff and family.
Arrangement is by format.
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 Document (in Sara Henderson Hay Lopatnikoff's hand?) in ink, 1 p. (2 sides), detailing names of Lopatnikoff family members.
BOX-FOLDER 24/2 Document, 5 p., typed, apparently written by Sara Henderson Hay Lopatnikoff after NL's death.
BOX-FOLDER 24/3 Document, 3 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 Document containing biographical information about Sara Henderson Hay Lopatnikoff (most likely written by SHHL herself), 2 p., typed.
BOX 24 Official Documents
The Official Documents series consists of personal and legal papers of Nikolai Lopatnikoff.
Arrangement is by format.
BOX-FOLDER 24/5 Student identification card; issued 1916 Sep 1 at Petrograd; in Russian.
BOX-FOLDER 24/6 NL's student enrollment form for the first semester at the Petrograd Conservatory; dated "1917-1918"; in Russian.
BOX-FOLDER 24/7 Graduation certificate and grade report from the Helsingfors-Aleksandrov High School, Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland; 1 document, dated 1919; in Russian.
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 Student grade reports from the Karlsruhe (Germany) Badische Technische Hochschüle: two documents, dated 1923 and 1927; in German.
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 Marriage certificate of NL and Eleanor Lashchinsky; issued 1926 Aug 17 at Strasbourg, France; in French.
BOX-FOLDER 24/10 Contract for a projected operetta, "Miss Universe"; dated 1932 Jun 7; in German. Also included: NL's English translation of this document, 1 p., typed.
BOX-FOLDER 24/11 Birth certificate (replacement) for Eleanor Lashchinsky Lopatnikoff; issued 1935 Jun 13 at Lausanne, Switzerland; in French.
BOX-FOLDER 24/12 Legal document regarding Eleanor Lashchinsky Lopatnikoff; issued 1936 Apr 29 at Viipuri, Finland; in Finnish.
BOX-FOLDER 24/13 Student grade reports from the Tallinn (Estonia) Jewish School; four documents, dated between 1934 and 1936; in Estonian.
BOX-FOLDER 24/14 Student activities card ("Liikmekaart"); dated 1936; in Estonian.
BOX-FOLDER 24/15 Certificate of membership in the British Performing Right Society; dated 1938 Apr 21.
BOX-FOLDER 24/16 NL's Estonian passport ("Eesti Vabariik"); issued 1938 Jun 30 at London.
BOX-FOLDER 24/17 NL's United States Certificate of Naturalization; issued 1944 Jun 6 at New York.
BOX-FOLDER 24/18 NL's American passport, issued 1971 Apr 27 at New York; slip of paper with handwritten number (holograph?), possibly NL's social security number.
BOX-FOLDER 24/19 Expense reports: documents detailing financial agreements between NL and his uncle, Max von Jung; for 1917: two documents, in German and in Russian; for 1930-36: seventeen documents, mostly slips of paper, in German.
BOX 5, 25-26, Map Case 3 Miscellaneous
The Miscellaneous series consists of various items not otherwise related to the collection materials.
Arrangement is by format.
BOX-FOLDER 25/1 Promotional brochures (13 items) from the following publishers: Broadcast Music, Inc. (one); Hug & Co. (three); Leeds Music Corp. (three); MCA Music (two); Russischer Musikverlag (one); B. Schott's Söhne (two, dated 1934).
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Catalogs (two) of works commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation: one is 12 p., with a 1 p. supplement; the other is 7 p., dated "1944" in script.
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Program from a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by the Cleveland Orchestra, dated 1935 Feb 5.
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Prescription label, dated 1934 Oct 23, from a Reval (Tallinn), Estonia, pharmacy; in Estonian (front), Russian (verso), and German (script).
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 [Akhmatova, Anna. Chëtki. [Rosary.] (Poems, Book 2). [St.] Petersburg: [unnamed publisher], 1923, 114 p.] A holograph musical sketch is included on verso of the frontispiece; the frontispiece itself bears a small reproduction of a painting (?) of Akhmatova.
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 [Körner, Theo A. and Rathke-Bernburger, Otto. Instrumentations-Tabelle. Leipzig: Verlag Anton J. Benjamin, 1927, 3 p. and 6 fold-out pages.]
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 Concert programs in which NL's works were included; includes related publicity: 1921-1929, 32 items.
BOX-FOLDER 25/8 Concert programs in which NL's works were included; includes related publicity: 1930-1939, 20 items.
BOX-FOLDER 25/9 Concert programs in which NL's works were included; includes related publicity: 1940-1949, 20 items.
BOX-FOLDER 25/10 Concert programs in which NL's works were included; includes related publicity: 1950-, 20 items.
BOX-FOLDER 5/11 Concert programs in which NL's works were included; includes related publicity: undated, 7 items.
BOX-FOLDER 25/12 Miscellaneous, 4 items.
BOX-FOLDER 26/1 Autograph book.
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 Large scrapbook containing newspaper clippings relating to NL's Festival Overture, op. 40, commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and premiered on 1960 Oct 12 in Detroit.
MAPCASE-DRAWER 3/2 Two large prints of Felix Mendelssohn.
BOX 26 Metal and wood printing plate bearing the likeness of Felix Mendelssohn.
BOX-FOLDER 26/3 Several large envelopes and folders used by NL to house sketches and copyists' scores of his works; some include publication information.
BOX 27 Iconography
The Iconography series consists of photographs of Nikolai Lopatnikoff, family, and others as well as a scrapbook album.
Arrangement is in two subseries and then by subject.
A. Photographs of NL, his family, and photographs including NL.
BOX-FOLDER 27/1 NL; photograph, ca. 1930.
BOX-FOLDER 27/2 NL; photograph, ca. 1930.
BOX-FOLDER 27/3 NL; postcard photograph of newspaper clippings and publicity material, ca. 1932.
BOX-FOLDER 27/4 NL; photograph of drawing by Swan, dated 1940s.
BOX-FOLDER 27/5 NL; photograph, dated 1950s. Photographer: Bernice B. Perry, Wilton, NH.
BOX-FOLDER 27/6 NL; photograph, dated 1951. Photographer: Ilsa Hofman, New York, NY.
BOX-FOLDER 27/7 NL; photograph, dated 8 December 1954.
BOX-FOLDER 27/8 NL; photograph, dated May 1963. Photographer: Pach Bros., New York, NY.
BOX-FOLDER 27/9 NL; photograph, ca. 1970.
BOX-FOLDER 27/10 NL; photograph, dated 1970 or 1971. Photograph: J.D. Yenick, Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Public Relations, Pittsburgh, PA.
BOX-FOLDER 27/11 NL; photograph, dated ca. 1970.
BOX-FOLDER 27/12 Lopatnikoff, Nora Lashchinsky; photograph, undated. Photographer: R. Vass, Strasbourg, France.
BOX-FOLDER 27/13 Lopatnikoff, Nora Lashchinsky; photograph, undated.
BOX-FOLDER 27/14 Lopatnikoff, Nora Lashchinsky; two photographs, undated.
BOX-FOLDER 27/15 Lopatnikoff, Sara Henderson Hay; photograph, dated 1951 (“5648 Northumberland Street”). Photographer: Charles C. Stuebgen.
BOX-FOLDER 27/16 Lopatnikoff, Sara Henderson Hay; photograph, dated 1980.
BOX-FOLDER 27/17 NL and Sara Henderson Hay Lopatnikoff; photograph, dated 1956 (“MacDowell Colony”). Photographer: Bernice B. Perry, Wilton, NH.
BOX-FOLDER 27/18 NL and Sara Henderson Hay Lopatnikoff; photograph, dated 1965 (“NL’s study / 5448 Bartlett St / Pittsburgh PA 15217”).
BOX-FOLDER 27/19 NL and Serge Koussevitzky; photograph, dated 1940s or 1950. Photographer: Associated Photographers, Pittsburgh, PA.
BOX-FOLDER 27/20 Lopatnikoff family (Ida Fectelberg Lopatnikoff; Lilli, Boris and Nikolai Lopatnikoff; “Elsa”; “Governess”; and “unidentified girl”); photograph, dated 1906.
BOX-FOLDER 27/21 Lopatnikoff family (Leo and Ida Fectelberg Lopatnikoff; Lilli and Boris Lopatnikoff); photograph, dated 1902 [ca. 1905?].
BOX-FOLDER 27/22 Lopatnikoff family (Leo and Ida Fectelberg Lopatnikoff; Lilli, Boris and Nikolai Lopatnikoff; unidentified child); photograph, ca. 1905 [1902?].
BOX-FOLDER 27/23 Lopatnikoff, Ida Fectelberg; photograph, undated. Photographer: F. Indursky, Vyborg, Finland.
BOX-FOLDER 27/24 Lopatnikoff, Ida Fectelberg; photograph, undated. Photographer: F. Indursky, Vyborg, Finland.
BOX-FOLDER 27/25 Lopatnikoff, Leo; photograph, undated. Photographer: F. Indursky, Vyborg, Finland.
BOX-FOLDER 27/26 Lopatnikoff, Leo; photograph, undated. Photographer: F. Indursky, Vyborg, Finland.
BOX-FOLDER 27/27 Lopatnikoff, Leo; photograph, undated. Photographer: Rausch & Pester, Karlsruhe, Germany.
BOX-FOLDER 27/28 Lopatnikoff, Leo and Lilli; photograph, undated.
B. Photographs of others
BOX-FOLDER 27/29 Cherepnin, Aleksandr; photograph, inscribed to NL, dated 24 February 1929. Photographer: Fayer, Vienna, Austria.
BOX-FOLDER 27/30 Flesch, Carl, photograph, inscribed, dated 16 June 1939.
BOX-FOLDER 27/31 Grechaninov, Aleksandr; photograph of drawing of AG (artist unidentified [S. Sor...?]), dated 25 October 1944; inscribed by AG, date of inscription is also 25 October 1944.
BOX-FOLDER 27/31 Grechaninov, Aleksandr; photograph of bronze sculpture (artist unidentified [Trena Rothstein?]), undated. Photographer: Walter J. Russell, New York, NY.
BOX-FOLDER 27/32 Koussevitzky, Serge; three photographs, undated.
BOX-FOLDER 27/33 Lazăr, Filip; photograph, inscribed to NL, dated 1928. Photographer: Julietta, Bucarest, Romania.
BOX-FOLDER 27/34 Luboshutz, Pierre and Genia Nemenoff; photograph, inscribed, dated 6 June 1941. Photographer: Bruno of Hollywood, New York, NY.
BOX-FOLDER 27/35 Piatigorsky, Gregor; two photographs (one with a conductor [William Steinberg?], and one with an unidentified woman), undated.
BOX-FOLDER 27/36 Steinberg, William; photograph, undated.
BOX-FOLDER 27/37 NL’s home at 5448 Bartlett Street, Pittsburgh, PA; four photographs (one each of the front and of the rear of the home, and two of its garden), undated.
BOX-FOLDER 27/38 Unidentified individual (male); photograph, inscribed (in German), dated 18 March 1927.
BOX-FOLDER 27/39 Unidentified individual (male); photograph, undated.
C. Scrapbooks of photographs
BOX-FOLDER 27/40 Scrapbook, dating from 1955, commemorating NL's fiftieth birthday, prepared for NL by his cousin Anna ("Baby") Feinstein; contains photographs, newspaper clippings, publicity and biographical information, and graphic and watercolor artwork. This folder contains seven (7) separate folders, each of which holds one two-sided page from the original scrapbook.
BOX-FOLDER 27/41 Scrapbook, dating from ca. 1917, depicting alpine scenes (in the Austrian Alps?), possibly dating from NL’s military service. This scrapbook contains thirty-six (36) photographs. Additional loose photographs found in this scrapbook are housed in the following folder (Box 27/Folder 42).
BOX-FOLDER 27/42 Scrapbook, dating from ca. 1917: loose photographs found in the above scrapbook (Box 27/Folder 41). This folder contains forty-six (46) photographs, in sixteen separate folders.

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