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Anton Seidl collection of musical papers, 1870-1943 30 Linear Feet 49 boxes

Seidl, Anton, 1850-1898

Papers, letters, memoranda, memorabilia, and manuscript music scores assembled by and related to the life and musical activities of Anton Seidl. The collection includes many letters from Cosima Wagner and her children addressed to Anton Seidl and his wife, the opera singer Auguste Kraus Seidl. There are also letters from Lilli Lehman, Edvard Grieg, Antonin Dvorak, Bronislaw Hubermann, Carl Goldmark, Maud Powell, Marianne Brandt, Felix Weingartner, Lyman Abbott, and many others. The letters are chiefly concerned with musical performances, composition, and related affairs. There are journals, diaries, and memoranda in Seidl's hand, as well as photographs and clippings relating to his conducting career. Also, twenty-seven manuscript scores of Seidl's orchestrations of various works.

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Constance Hope papers, 1931-1975 7.09 linear feet 17 document boxes

Hope, Constance, 1908-1977
The Constance Hope papers cover over 40 years of Hope's associations with hundreds of performers and chronicles her career in the field of artists' and commercial publicity.
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Fritz Reiner papers, 1916-1983 0.5 linear feet 1 box

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963

Letters, notes, programs, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is comprised primarily of handwritten correspondence between Reiner and notable music figures including Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Nikisch. Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, and Leo Weiner. Also of note, letters from writer and conductor Gian Francesco Milpiero and his wife Auna detailing wartime conditions in Italy (1946).

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Maurice Peress papers, 1898-1923, 1950s-2017 55 linear feet 67 document boxes (Boxes 1-58, 63-70, 79), 2 half-document boxes (Boxes 71-72), 23 tall document boxes (Boxes 59-62, 73-78, 80-97), 3 card file boxes (Boxes 98-99, 131), 25 flat boxes (Boxes 100-124), 6 record cartons (Boxes 125-130), 4 phonograph record boxes (Boxes 132-135), 5 book boxes (Boxes 136-140) for oversized scores

Peress, Maurice
Maurice Peress (1930-2017) was an American orchestra conductor, arranger, author, and educator. The papers include audio and video recordings, clippings, contracts, correspondence, diaries, memorabilia, notebooks, photographs, posters, programs, research materials, reviews, scores, scrapbooks, and working files, sketches, and other materials.
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Music autograph letters, 1767-1939 68 items 68 items

Letters of musical composers and performers such as George Gershwin, Douglas Moore, Arnold Schönberg, Arturo Toscanini, Maria Cherubini, Jacques Halévy (F. Halévy), and Gaspare Spontini.

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Nicolai Berezowsky papers, 1893-1954 4.5 linear feet 10 boxes

Berezowsky, Nicolai, 1900-1953

Letters to and from Nicolai Berezowsky documenting his career and covering his development as violinist, conductor, and composer. The profession is well represented in the correspondence, with 63 letters from David Diamond, 22 from Serge Koussevitsky, 72 from Nicolai Lopatnikoff, and 31 from Eugene Ormandy; others in the collection are Leon Barzin, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Vladimir Golschmann, Eugene Goosens, Alex Grechaninov, Ernest Hutcheson, Douglas Moore, Paul Nordoff, Wallingford Riegger, Artur Rodzinski, Roger Sessions, Harold Spivacke, Leopold Stokowski, and Olga Samaroff Stokowski. Organizations, such as the WPA music program, League of Composers, Juilliard School of Music, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, are represented. There are also 15 volumes of music scores.

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Peter G. Davis Papers, 1912-2021, bulk 1948-2021 13 Linear Feet 2 record storage cartons, 21 manuscript boxes, and 2 flat boxes 78 Megabytes 13 floppy disks (5.25-inch) and 43 floppy disks (3.5-inch).

Davis, Peter G.
This collection contains the papers of Peter G. Davis (1936-2021), who worked as a classical music critic at various national and specialist publications from 1962-2018. It includes the vast majority of Davis's writings on music (published or draft), along with print material relating to these writings, Davis's compositions (1957-1964), material relating to Davis's early education (1948-1959), and correspondence and interviews with a number of major classical musicians.
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Sid Ramin papers, circa 1957-2009, bulk 1957-1995 120 linear feet 66 flat boxes, 5 record cartons, and 12 document boxes; 1 mapcase drawer; 2 CMI boxes

Ramin, Sid
Sid Ramin was a composer, conductor, and arranger for Broadway and Hollywood musicals and for television shows, including All My Children, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and West Side Story.
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Tania León papers, 1960s-2020s 110 Linear Feet 8 document boxes; 2 small flat boxes; 3 shopping bags; 1 large carton; 40 flat boxes, 30 manuscript boxes, 20 record cartons, 5 poster boxes

León, Tania
Tania León (b. 1943, in Havana, Cuba) is a composer of both large scale and chamber works, as well as a conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. The collection includes manuscript and published scores, photographs, programs, posters, recordings, awards, books, clippings, and correspondence.
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