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Heineman Foundation Collection in Honor of Edward N. Waters [collection]

Title

Heineman Foundation Collection in Honor of Edward N. Waters [collection]

Date Created

Span: 1495-[19--]

Language

English, French, German, Italian

Form

collection

Physical Description

37 ft.

Abstract

The Heineman Foundation Collection in honor of former Music Division Chief Edward N. Waters includes manuscript and imprint scores, rare books, and correspondence dating from the late fifteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Containing over 200 items acquired between 1960 and 1992 through donations by the Heineman Foundation, the collection's treasures include Tinctoris' Terminorum musicae diffinitorium (1495), a copy of the first printed libretto of Handel's Messiah, and music by Hasse, Cimarosa, Liszt, Brahms, and Webern. All items are catalogued under the general call number ML31.H43 Case.

Contents Note

Over 200 manuscript and print scores, numerous letters, and rare volumes

Preferred Citation

Heineman Foundation Collection in Honor of Edward N. Waters, Music Division, Library of Congress

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Subjects

Wind Band Music
Chamber Music
Choral Music
Dance
Piano Music
Violin Music
Songs
Opera
Orchestral Music
Sacred Music
Heineman, Dannie N.
Waters, Edward N.
Albert, Eugen d’
Bliss, Sir Arthur
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Chopin, Frédéric
Cimarosa, Domenico
Czerny, Carl
Debussy, Claude
Gounod, Charles
Herbert, Victor
Liszt, Franz
Malipiero, Gian Francesco
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Offenbach, Jacques
Prokofiev, Sergey
Rameau, Jean Philippe
Schumann, Robert
Smetana, Bedrich
Stravinsky, Igor
Thomas, Ambroise
Tchaikovsky, Peter
Weber, Carl Maria von
Ysaÿe, Eugène
Heineman Foundation for Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes

Repository

Music Division, Library of Congress

Last Updated: 08-21-2012