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Lukas Foss Collection [collection]
- Title
- Lukas Foss Collection [collection]
- Date Created
- Span: 1930s-2000
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 16 boxes
- Abstract
- At the center of this large collection are the manuscripts and sketches for most of the compositions of the noted composer, conductor and teacher Lukas Foss. The collection is also rich in correspondence between Foss and many of the other leading composers of the twentieth century. The business and subject files contain information on many of Foss' commissions, performances, and teaching relationships involving the Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati and Cleveland orchestras and the American Symphony, as well as other orchestras, festivals, universities and conservatories across the country. One of the many interesting items is an early (age 7-8) attempt at an opera using the fairy tale which later became Foss' opera, Griffelkin.
- Contents Note
- 67 manuscripts of unpublished works and 108 manuscripts of published works; 1 Anton Webern manuscript (2 page sketch of arrangement of Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie); photographs (ca. 100 items); childhood manuscript books; correspondence (ca. 400 items); business and subject files.
- Microfilm available
- No
- Preferred Citation
- Lukas Foss Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subjects
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Chamber Music
Choral Music
Piano Music
Orchestral Music
Foss, Lukas
Andriessen, Louis
Babbitt, Milton
Berio, Luciano
Bernstein, Leonard
Bolcom, William
Boulez, Pierre
Brant, Henry
Cage, John
Carter, Elliott
Crumb, George
Cunningham, Merce
Tredici, David Del
Druckman, Jacob
Gould, Glenn
Gould, Morton
Hindemith, Paul
Kagel, Mauricio
Knussen, Oliver
Lachenmenn, Helmut
Lutoslowski, Witold
Menotti, Gian Carlo
Meredith, William
Messiaen, Olivier
Milhaud, Darius
Nono, Luigi
Penderecki, Kristoff
Pousseur, Henri
Previn, André
Rochberg, George
Rostropovich, Mistislav
Sandburg, Carl
Sessions, Roger
Stern, Isaac
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Stolzman, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Szell, George
Takemitsu, Toru
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wolpe, Stephan
Wuorinen, Charles
Xenakis, Iannis
Young, La Monte
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 08-21-2012