Geraldine Farrar Collection
Span: 1895-1943
Bulk: 20th century
English
collection
17 ft.
58 boxes
The Geraldine Farrar Collection documents the stellar career of one of America's most celebrated sopranos. It contains music, including compositions by Farrar; correspondence; concert programs; Metropolitan Opera contracts; drafts of her autobiography Such Sweet Compulsion; scripts for radio programs; photographs; and papers related to her work with the Red Cross and various government organizations during World War II. Of particular interest is Farrar's life-long correspondence with Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm and Crown Princess Cecelie. There is also significant correspondence from American producer David Belasco and Farrar's vocal coach Lilli Lehmann.
Biographical materials, writings, music, correspondence, contracts, scripts, programs, scrapbooks, photographs, and sound recordings.
Fifty-five phonograph records that were included have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Geraldine Farrar Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Farrar, Geraldine
Papers and music of one of America's most celebrated sopranos
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Opera
Women in the Performing Arts
Farrar, Geraldine
Belasco, David
Businger, Ruth A.
CarreƱo, Teresa
Caruso, Enrico
Charpentier, Gustave
DeMille, Cecille B.
Dukas, Paul
Finck, Henry T.
Kreisler, Fritz
Lehmann, Lilli
Massenet, Jules
Pons, Lily
Puccini, Giacomo
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Toscanini, Arturo
Wilhelm, Crown Prince
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/mu2005.wp.0007.pdf
IHAS
110201
loc.natlib.scdb.200033615