Finding Aid for the Collection of Musicians' Autographs LSC.0602
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2022 May 31.
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of Musicians' Autographs
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0602
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1783-1919
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Musicians' Autographs (Collection 602). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Walter Slezak, 1947.
Collection originally assembled by Walter Slezak.
Processing Information
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Processed by Manuscripts Division staff.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Collection contains musicians' holographs, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Ferruccio Bevenuto
Busoni, Luigi Cherubini, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Charles Francois Gounod, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gustav
Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Engelbert Humperdinck, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Giuseppe
Verdi, and Richard Wagner. Collection also contains autographs by historical and literary figures such as Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Mark Twain, Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, and Victor Hugo.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Musicians -- Autographs.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
box 1, folder 1
Sheet music of "Resignation"
General Physical Description note: Autographed, 1 sheet.
box 1, folder 1
Sheet music (manuscript)
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 2 sheets.
Boieldieu, François Adrien, 1775-1834
box 1, folder 2
Letter, in French
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Bossi, Marco Enrico, 1861-1925
box 1, folder 3
Sheet music: "Alle LL. AA. RR. Le Principe e la Principessa di Napoli Marcia Nuziale Lavoja=Petrovich di M. Enrico Bossi."
(manuscript)
General Physical Description note: Holograph, with Bossi autograph.
box 1, folder 7
Sheet music: "Schmetterling" (manuscript)
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
box 1, folder 4
Postcard
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Browning, Elizabeth (Barrett), 1806-1861
box 1, folder 5
Poem, "Meditations"
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
box 1, folder 6
Card.
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto, 1866-1924
box 1, folder 8
Score: "Cortege..." (manuscript)
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item, 36 pages.
Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842
box 1, folder 9
Letter, in French, with envelope and portrait
1804
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 2 leaves, with portrait of Cherubini.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
box 1, folder 10
Notecard inscribed "Be good and you will be lonesome"
1899
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item. Autographed, "Mark Twain."
Flotow, Friedrich von, 1812-1883
box 1, folder 11
Letter
April 16, 1899
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von, 1714-1787
box 1, folder 12
Letter, envelope with broken seal.
November 1783
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 2 leaves.
box 1, folder 12
Portrait of Gluck from unknown publication
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Gounod, Charles François, 1818-1893
box 1, folder 13
Letter, in French
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, 1843-1907
box 1, folder 14
Postcard
November 9, 1900
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872
box 1, folder 15
Letter, with envelope and seal
1861
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 2 leaves.
Halévy, Kaqies François Fromental Elias, 1799-1862
box 1, folder 16
Letter, in French.
April, 1819.
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Hugo, Victor Marie, comte, 1802-1885
box 1, folder 25
Letter, in French
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921
box 1, folder 24
Postcard, in German
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Kienzl, Wilhelm, 1857-1941
box 1, folder 17
Postcard, in German.
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
box 1, folder 23
Letter
May 6, 1988
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Ives Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
box 1, folder 18
Letter, in French
January 31, 1792
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 2 leaves.
box 1, folder 20
Letter, in German
May 30, 1880
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
box 1, folder 20
3 portraits of Liszt from unidentified publications
General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 1, folder 20
Sheet music (manuscript)
General Physical Description note: Benedetto sia'l giorno, Holograph, 1 sheet.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsorth, 1807-1887
box 1, folder 19
Letter
February 24, 1863
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
box 1, folder 21
Letter
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1885
box 1, folder 22
Sheet music (manuscript)
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 sheet.
box 1, folder 22
Mendelsohn autograph
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864
box 1, folder 26
Letter, in French
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 1792-1868
box 1, folder 27
Letter, in French
1932
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Saint Saens, Camille, 1855-1921
[item(s) missing, 7/24/2008 - Olvera]
Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896
box 1, folder 32
Postcard
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 item.
Spontini, Gasparo Luigi Pacifico, 1774-1851
box 1, folder 28
Letter, in French
April 19, 1935
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
box 1, folder 30
Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi from unidentified publication
box 1, folder 30
Card, in Italian, with envelope
1896
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 2 items.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
box 1, folder 31
Portrait of Richard Wagner from unknown publication
General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 1, folder 31
Letter, in German
February 10, 1877
General Physical Description note: Holograph, 1 leaf. Typescript of translation of letter from German to English.
