Rare books, letters, and documents, 1778-1985 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Collection of ca. 830 rare books, manuscripts and documents, music excerpts, and sketches, primarily from composers and musical performers. Authors including George Antheil, Samuel Barber, John Barbirolli, Bela Bartok, Arnold Bax, Robert Russell Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Georges Bizet, Ernest Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, George Crumb, Leopold Damrosch, Walter Damrosch, Reginald DeKoven, Theodore Dreiser, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Faure, Stephen Foster, Edwin Franko Goldman, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Morton Gould, Percy Grainger, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Franz Joseph Haydn, Victor Herbert, Arthur Honneger, Charles Ives, Francis Scott Key, Serge Koussevitzky, Ruggerio Leoncavallo, Franz Liszt, Otto Luening, Jules Massenet, Yehudi Menuhin, Darius Milhaud, Jacques Offenbach, Eugene Ormandy, Ignace Paderewski, Giaccomo Puccini, Serge Rachmaninoff, Wallingford Riegger, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Carl Ruggles, Camille Saint-Saens, Robert Schumann, Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman, Ludwig Spohr, Leopold Stokowski, Johann Strauss, Josef Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, Anton Webern, Charles Marie Widor, Charles Wuorinen, and Efrem Zimbalist