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BOX 1 Music, 1936-1952, undated
The Music Series consists of Stokowski’s transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Modest Mussorgsky. The manuscripts are in the hands of copyists such as Lucien Cailliet and Sally Emrich. The transcriptions of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bare Mountain and Tableaux d’une exhibition (Pictures at an Exhibition) were used in Walt Disney’s animated film Fantastia (1940), for which Stokowski conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Aus tiefer Not, undated
By Johann Sebastian Bach
Manuscript score for horns, trombones, tuba, and strings
LCCN: 66098808
LCCN: unk84053010 Choral-Vorspiel, Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, undated
By Johann Sebastian Bach
Manuscript score for band
Note: Inscribed by Sally M. Emrich, 1952 November 23
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Choral-Vorspiel, Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, undated
By Johann Sebastian Bach
Photocopies of manuscript parts for band
LCCN: m54001009 Night on Bare Mountain (Witches Sabbath), circa 1940
By Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Manuscript score for orchestra
Alternate title: Night on Bald Mountain
Note: Staff paper marked "Walt Disney Studio :: Music Dept."
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Overture no. 3 in D major. Aria, undated
By Johann Sebastian Bach
Manuscript score for strings
LCCN: 50036928
LCCN: m59001763 Tableaux d'une exposition, 1939
By Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Manuscript score for orchestra
Alternate title: Pictures at an Exhibition
Note: Staff paper marked "Walt Disney Studio :: Music Dept."
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Toccata and Fugue in C major. Adagio, 1936
By Johann Sebastian Bach
Manuscript score for orchestra
LCCN: 66098806
Correspondence, 1949-1959
The Correspondence series consists of six letters from various composers to Stokowski. These include a signed holograph letter from Carl Orff and signed typescript letters from Reinhold Glière, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Jean Sibelius. More than forty collections in the Music Division house further correspondence between Stokowski and other eminent twentieth-century composers, conductors, and performers. Materials are in English unless otherwise noted.
Arranged alphabetically by last name and by date therein.
LCCN: 2017563761 Glière, Reinhold to Leopold Stokowski, 1955 December 12
Typescript
Note: English translation included
Language: Collection material in Russian
LCCN: 2017568531 Menotti, Gian Carlo to Leopold Stokowski, 1954 September 21
Typescript, signed in ink
LCCN: 2017568540 Orff, Carl to Leopold Stokowski, 1959 May 7
Holograph, signed in ink
Language: Collection material in German
LCCN: 2017566117 Sibelius, Jean to Leopold Stokowski, 1949 October 11
Typescript, signed in pencil
LCCN: 2017566116 Sibelius, Jean to Leopold Stokowski, 1954 September 15
Typescript, signed in pencil
LCCN: 2017566115 Sibelius, Jean to Leopold Stokowski, 1955 May 11
Typescript, signed in pencil
Artwork, 1910
The Artwork series contains Arnold Schoenberg’s self-portrait, Vision, which he painted in 1910 and gifted to Stokowski in September 1949.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
SSF Vision, 1910
By Arnold Schoenberg
Oil on cardboard, self-portrait
Note: Signed dedication to Stokowski on front

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