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Jacobo Ficher Collection [collection]

Title

Jacobo Ficher Collection [collection]

Dates Created

Span: 1864-1997

Bulk: 1919-1978

Language

English, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Yiddish

Form

collection

Physical Description

73 ft.

68 boxes

Abstract

Russian composer Jacobo Ficher (1896-1978) became significantly associated with Argentine music of the twentieth century after moving to South America in 1923. In addition to composing, he developed a brilliant career as an orchestra conductor, prominent teacher, and violinist. The Jacobo Ficher Collection comprises practically all of the composer's works, mainly holograph manuscript scores, in all major categories of composition including opera and ballet.

Contents Note

379 music manuscripts; biographical materials; correspondence, including more than 3000 letters; writings; approximately 500 programs dating from 1919 to 1997; and five scrapbooks of 200 pages each, dating from 1914 to 1990, with newspaper clippings, critical reviews, concerts programs, pictures, and letters.

Preferred Citation

Jacobo Ficher Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

Access Permissions

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Copyright

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Subjects

Latin American Music

Orchestral Music

Opera

Ballet

Conductors

Dance

Ficher, Jacobo

Bernstein, Leonard

Chávez, Carlos

Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague

Copland, Aaron

Cowell, Henry

Fine, Vivian

Ginastera, Alberto

Kletzki, Paul

Malko, Nicolai

Ormandy, Eugene

Rubinstein, Arthur

Slonimsky, Nicolas

Stokowski, Leopold

Repository

Music Division, Library of Congress

Finding Aid

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003005

Last Updated: 08-21-2012