Leonard Bernstein Collection, 1900-1990
Span: 1900-1991
Bulk: 1930-1990
English, Hebrew, French, German
collection
400 ft.
386 boxes
The Leonard Bernstein Collection is as exceptional a collection as its namesake would suggest. Bernstein, arguably the most prominent figure in American music in the 20th century, made his impact as a conductor, composer of theater and classical music, and as an educator through his books, conducting students at Tanglewood, and, especially, his various televised lecture series that helped define the potentials of that medium. The collection is as close to comprehensive of the various aspects of his life and career as would be reasonably possible.
Photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, writings, personal business papers, the extensive archives for his corporate identity, Amberson Inc., and music manuscripts.
Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS). Recordings may be found in Sonic by searching the Collection name: "Leonard Bernstein Audio Materials."
MUSIC-1011 (West Side Story music holographs, ML96.B), MUSIC-1811 (Symposium After Plato, ML30.3C.B44, Koussevitzky commission), MUSIC-1904 (ML96.B, various Bernstein music holographs, 2 reels), Microfilm 99/2002 (scrapbooks)
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Bernstein, Leonard
Papers of the prominent conductor, composer, author, and teacher.
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Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Composers
Conductors (Music)
Pianists
Bernstein, Leonard
Barrett, Michael
Bernstein, Felicia
Blitzstein, Marc
Boulanger, Nadia
Bowles, Paul
Coates, Helen
Comden, Betty
Copland, Aaron
Fine, Irving
Foss, Lukas
Gellhorn, Martha
Gottlieb, Jack
Green, Adolph
Hellman, Lillian
Kollek, Teddy
Koussevitzky, Serge
Kraut, Harry
Lerner, Alan Jay
Longy, Renée
Mauceri, John
Milhaud, Darius
Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Ormandy, Eugene
Pasternak, Boris
Piston, Walter
Prawy, Marcel
Riegger, Wallingford
Robbins, Jerome
Rostropovich, Mistislav
Schuman, William
Smit, Leo
Sondheim, Stephen
Stern, Isaac
Tourel, Jennie
Wadsworth (Zinsser), Stephen
Zeffirelli, Franco
Zirato, Bruno
Carter, Elliott
ML31.B49
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
West Side Story: Birth of A Classic Online Exhibition
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/westsidestory/
web site
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001
IHAS
110125
loc.natlib.scdb.200033659