Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, circa 1000-circa 1990
Span: 1000-1987
Various
collection
206 ft.
131 boxes
The ardent music collector and mountain climber Hans Moldenhauer was born in Mainz, Germany, in 1906, and died in 1987. Over the course of forty years he established the Moldenhauer Archives, a rich resource of musical documents that encompasses Western music history from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. The collection includes holograph scores and sketches, both published and unpublished works, as well as a number of copyists' and printed scores, transcriptions and arrangements by composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Bloch, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schoenberg, Webern, and many others. Also included is historically important correspondence, such as letters of Metastasio and Handel. Some composers (Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, for example) are represented by numerous manuscripts. A sample of other composers, musicians and literary figures that are represented by both music and nonmusical materials includes George Auric, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Pierre Boulez, Anton Bruckner, Charles Burney, Feruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Frederick Delius, Hermann Hesse, György Ligeti, Federico Garca Lorca, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank Wedekind, Kurt Weill, and Gioseffo Zarlino.
Music (both manuscript and printed), correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, books, newspaper clippings, printed programs, drawings, and engravings.
Sound recordings transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, Music Division, Library of Congress
Moldenhauer
A collection of manuscript and printed scores, correspondence and other documents spanning the history of Western Music from the Middle Ages to the present.
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.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Chamber Music
Choral Music
Opera
Orchestral Music
Sacred Music
Piano Music
Songs
Moldenhauer, Hans
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Bloch, Ernest
Brahms, Johannes
Chopin, Frédéric
Webern, Anton
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Schoenberg, Arnold
Milhaud, Darius
Ravel, Maurice
Segovia, Andres
Liszt, Franz
ML31.M6
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
liszt_coll
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/moldenhauer/
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003012
IHAS
120828
loc.natlib.scdb.200033674