Great composers and musicians collection
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Autographs, brief music manuscripts, and/or portraits of famous and lesser-known Western European and American composers and performers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Busoni, Elgar, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Paderewski, Paganini, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Schubert, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Toscanini, Verdi, Wagner, Weber, and Hugo Wolf.
Dates
- 1780 - 1910
Language of Materials
Collection material in Italian, German, French, and English.
Extent
58 items. (58 items.)
Abstract
Autographs, brief music manuscripts, and/or portraits of famous and lesser-known Western European and American composers and performers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Busoni, Elgar, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Paderewski, Paganini, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Schubert, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Toscanini, Verdi, Wagner, Weber, and Hugo Wolf. The bound volume includes autographs, manuscript letters, and/or portraits of composers including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Gounod, Grieg, Francis Scott Key, Leoncavallo, Liszt, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Verdi, and Wagner.
Physical Description
Autographs, manuscripts, and portraits.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2018
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2018
- Date modified:
- Margaret Nichols, July 2018
- Autographs (manuscripts).
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
- Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.
- Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897.
- Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924.
- Composers -- France.
- Composers -- Germany.
- Composers -- Great Britain.
- Composers -- Italy.
- Composers -- United States.
- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934.
- Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.
- Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907.
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
- Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.
- Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.
- MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908.
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847.
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Music -- History and criticism -- 18th century.
- Music -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
- Musicians -- Portraits.
- Musicians.
- Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941.
- Paganini, Nicolò, 1782-1840.
- Portraits.
- Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
- Rubinstein, Anton, 1829-1894.
- Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
- Sarasate, Pablo de, 1844-1908.
- Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957.
- Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.
- Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957.
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826.
- Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2018
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu