William Mason collection of autographs of musicians, 1830-1906

William Mason collection of autographs of musicians, 1830-1906

Summary Information

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Call No.:
MS#0850
Bib ID:
4079084 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Mason, William, 1829-1908
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
1 volume
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Summary

This collection of autographed inscriptions and letters from noted 19th century musicians was assembled by Mason. The material includes the signatures of 85 composer, performers, and other musical people, most of whom were Dr. Mason's contemporaries and personal friends. There are 103 items the majority of which are bits of music in script with signatures, and a few autograph letters to Mason. Among those represented are Berlioz, Jenny Lind, Franz Liszt, MacDowell, Paderewski, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, Samaroff, and the Schumanns.

Arrangement

Cataloged.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Mason collection of autographs of musicians; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Existence and Location of Copies

This item has been microfilmed. See microfilm #MN-0235.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Van Sindern, Mina Mason: Address--Gift.

Gift of Mina Mason Van Sinvern, 1933.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Van Sindern, Mina Mason Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.

Revision Description

2010-02-16 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Pianist, teacher, and musical theoretician.

William Mason (January 24, 1829 July 14 1908 was a noted pianist composer and teacher. He made his musical debut at seventeen with the Boston Academy of Music March 7 1846. In 1849 he went to Germany to complete his education and studied with a number of pianists including Franz List. Upon his return to the United States in 1854 he started to tour the country giving piano recitals.

In 1857 Mason married Mary Isabella Web. In 1855 he helped to found the Mason-Thomas Soirees of Chamer-Music at which many compositions by Schumann and Brahms were first performed in the United States. After 1868 Mason mostly wrote and taught music and piano technique. His most famous book is Touch and Technic. He wrote about forty pieces for the piano among them Silver Spring and Capriccio Fantastico He died at age seventy-nine at his home in New York.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Autographs (manuscripts)
Teachers
Name
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941
Rubinstein, Anton, 1829-1894
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
Samaroff Stokowski, Olga, 1882-1948
Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
Subject
Composers
Music theory
Musicians
Pianists

X780. M38. Folio

Available on microfilm. Signed "William Mason, Orange, N.J., Nov. 15, 1883" on page 1. Book is paginated 1-101


Page 2

Ander, Alios Heidenroslein, 3 May 1851, 1 page score


Page 3

Aus der Ohe, Adele Score, New York, May 1897, 1 page


Page 4

Bachmann, Caroline Listesfotempo, 1 page score


Page 5

Benedict, Julius Score, London, 30 May 1853, 1 page


Page 6

Berlioz, Hector Score, [April or May 1854], 1 page


Page 7

Brandeis, Johann Note, Prague, 20 May 1851, 1 page

[Includes portrait]


Page 8

Brockway, Howard Score, New York, 20 October 1899, 1 page


Page 9

Brodsky, Adolf Score, New York, 22 February 1892, 1 page


Page 10

Buck, Dudley Signarure, [n.p.], 13 February 1894, 1 page


Page 11

Bull, Ole Bornemann Signature, Astor House New York, 19 November 1845, 1 page (fragment)


Page 12

Bulow, Hans von To William Mason, Boston, 21 October 1875, 2 page a.l.s.


Page 13

Cossmann, Bernhard The Spleen, New York, 26 May 1876, 2 page score


Page 14

Carreno, Teresa, 1853-1917 Score and note, New York, 1897, 1 page


Page 15

Drevschock, Alexander and Raimund Score and note, Prague and Leipzig, 1851 and 1856, 1 page


Page 16

Essipoff, Annette Score and note, New York, 18 May 1877, 1 page


Page 17

Friedheim, Arthur Maestoso Trionfante, New York, 20 December 1894, 1 page score, with note


Page 18

Gabrilowitsch, Ossip Minuet, New York, 11 November 1900, 1 page score, with note


Page 19

Godowsky, Leopold Moto Perpetuo, [n.p.], 7 March 1899, 1 page score, with note


Page 20

Goldbeck, Robert Fragment of letter, St. Louis, 11 June 1883, 1 page


Page 21

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau To William Mason, [New York], [n.d.], 1 page a.l.s.


Page 22

Gridley, C. E. To William Mason, Hamburg, 5 August 1849, 1 page a.l.s.


Page 23

Grieg, Edvard Score, [Bergen Norway], [1 July 1890], 1 page


Page 24

Haberbier, Ernst Score, London, 30 May 1853, 1 page


Page 25

Hauptmann, Moritz Score, with note, Leipzig, 1850, 1 page


Page 26

Huss, Henry Holden Score, with letter, [n.p.], 27 March 1875, 1 page a.l.s.


Page 27

Joachim, Joseph Score, Leipzig, 29 June 1850, 1 page


Page 28

Joseffy, Rafael Score, with note, New York, August 1889, 1 page


Page 29

Klindworth, Carl Score, with note, Germany, 9 February 1854, 1 page


Page 30

Kneisel Quartet Note with drawing, New York, 4 April 1899, 1 page


Page 31

Kubelik, Jan Mendelssohn, 1901, 1 page score, with note


Page 32

Laub, Ferdinand To Mr. Ella[?], [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page a.l.s.


Page 33

Laub, Ferdinand Etude, Austria, 15 June 1853, 1 page score


Folder Pages 34 & 35

Leschetizky, Theodor To William Mason, Austria, 9 May 1897, 4 page a.l.s.

[Page 35 contains a typed (carbon) transcription of the a.l.s.]


Page 36

Lind, Jenny [To George Webb], New York, 17 September 1850, 2 page a.l.s.


Folder Pages 37 - 45

Liszt, Franz To William Mason, [v.p.], 19 August 1849 - 23 March 1880, 7 a.l.s.


Page 46

Liszt, Franz Score, [n.p.], 28 August 1849, 1 page


Page 47

Handel E minor Fugue, Austria, [ca. 1850], 1 page printed score

[Pencil marks by Listz]


Page 48

MacDowell, Edward Score, with note, [n.p.], 13 December 1894, 1 page


Page 49

Rosenberg, C. Portrait of Mary Webb Mason [wife of William Mason], [n.p.], 1 March 1860, 1 page


Page 50

Mayer, Carl Score, Hamburg, 25 January 1849, 1 page


Page 51

Mills, Sebastian Bach Score, [n.p.], 20 May 1873, 1 page


Page 52

Moor, Emanuel Score, New York, 14 September


Page 52r

Szumowska, Antoinette Chopin Nocturne, New York, 19 May 1895, 1 page


Page 53

Fontaine, Mortier de Fugue, Hambourg, 28 July 1859, 1 page


Page 54

Moscheles, Ignaz [To William Mason], Leipzig, 22 May 1850, 2 page a.l.s.


Page 55

Moscheles, Ignaz Exercise, Leipzig, 8 February 1850, 1 page score


Page 56

Moscheles, Ignaz [To William Mason], [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page a.n.s.


Page 57

Paderewski, Ignaz Score, New York, 21 December 1891, 1 page


Page 57r

Dohnanyi, Ernst von Score, New York, 12 April 1900, 1 page


Page 58

Paine, John Knowles Score, with note, Appledore NH, August 1855, 1 page


Page 59

Paur, Emil Score, with note, New York, [1897?], 1 page


Page 60

Pruckner, Dionys Score, Weimar, 26 June [n.y.], 1 page


Page 61

Raff, Joachim Transcription for piano, Weimar, 25 June 1854, 1 page


Page 62

Raff, Joachim [To William Mason], Frankfurt, 16 January 1880, 1 page a.l.s.


Page 63

Rea, William Score, Leipzig, 11 January 1850, 1 page


Page 63r

Hauptmanns, Moritz Engraved portrait, Leipzig, 31 December 1868, 1 page


Page 64

Reissiger, Karl Gottlieb Score, Dresden, 4 May 1850


Page 65

Remenyi, Eduard Score, with note, New York, 3 January 1895, 1 page


Page 66

Richter, Ernst Friedrich Score, Leipzig, 14 May 1850, 1 page


Page 67

Rubinstein, Anton Score, Weimar, 5 June 1854, 1 page


Page 68

Safonoff, Vassily Quote, with note, [n.p.], 31 January 1906, 1 page


Page 69

Samaroff, Olga Note, [n.p.], 9 March 1906, 1 page


Page 70

Saint-Saens, Camille To Randolph Brodsky, Paris, 27 February 1889, 2 page a.l.s., 1 visiting card


Page 71

Schindler, Anton Score, Frankfurt, 30 September 1852, 1 page


Page 72

Schneider, Johann Score, Dresden, 3 May 1850, 1 page


Folder Pages 73 & 73r

Schnyder von Wartensee, Xaver Score, with note, [n.p.], 1853, 2 pages


Page 74

Schulhoff, Jules Scherzo, Prague, 26 Septmeber 1850, 1 page score


Page 75

Schumann, Clara Score, Dresden, 30 April 1850, 1 page


Page 76

Schumann, Robert Score, Dresden, 29 April 1850, 1 page


Page 77

Sembrich, Marcella Marriage of Figgaro, [n.p.], 7 October 1915, 1 page score fragment


Page 78

Siloti, Alexander Score fragment, with note, New York, 22 March 1898, 1 page


Page 78r

Hambourg, Mark Note with score fragment, [n.p.], 23 November 1899, 1 page


Page 79

Sivori, Camillo Score, Boston, 13 November 1846, 1 page


Page 80

Slivinski, Joseph Score, New York, 20 April 1899, 1 page


Page 81

Sontag, Henriette Score, Munchen, 22 May 1852, 1 page


Page 82

Stavenhagen, Bernhard Score, with note, New York, 1 May 1895, 1 page


Page 83

Sternberg, Constantin I.E. von Score, with note, New York, 15 June 1897, 1 page


Page 84

Sudlatzek, Mary Score, with note, 29 July 1851, 1 page


Folder Pages 85 & 85r

Sudlatzek, Theresa To William Mason, 29 July 1851, 2 page a.l.s.


Page 86

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich To Brodsky, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page a.l.s.


Page 87

Berlioz, Hector Photograph and etching of, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page


Page 87r

Vieuxtemps, Henri Score, Weimar, 19 April 1854, 1 page


Page 88

Thomas, Christian Friedrich Theodore (1835-1905) To Willaim Mason, New York, 12 March 1881, 1 page a.l.s.


Page 89

Fiske, John and Celia Thaxter Drawing and Greek quote, Isle of Sholas, 4 September 1887 & 28 July 1888, 1 page


Page 90

Thalberg, Sigismond Score, with note, [n.p.], 21 October 1856, 1 page


Page 91

Wagner, Richard Score, with note, Zurich, 5 June 1852, 1 page


Page 92

Whiting, Arthur Score, with note, New York, 5 March 1895, 1 page


Page 93

Wilhelmj, August Score, with note, New York, 26 November 1878, 1 page


Page 94

Willmers, Rudolph La Pompa di Festa, Vienna, 14 August 1850, 1 page


Page 95

Wolf, Carl Maria Score, Berlin, 6 April 1852, 1 page


Page 101

Mason, William Autographs from Album which are especially interesting to me in the "Book of 'Memories' etc.", New York, [n.d.], 3 page a.ms. list