Finding Aid for the Collection of Musicians' Autographs, 1783-1919
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Finding Aid for the Collection of Musicians' Autographs, 1783-1919
Collection number: 602
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, October 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Musicians' Autographs,
Date (inclusive): 1783-1919
Collection number: 602
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary 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.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Walter Slezak, 1947.
Collection originally assembled by Walter Slezak.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Musicians' Autographs (Collection 602). Department of Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Musicians--Autographs.
Container List
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Box 1, Folder 1
Sheet music of "Resignation"
Physical Description: Autographed, 1 sheet.
Box 1, Folder 1
Sheet music (manuscript)
Physical Description: Holograph, 2 sheets.
Boieldieu, François Adrien, 1775-1834
Box 1, Folder 2
Letter, in French
Physical Description: 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)
Physical Description: Holograph, with Bossi autograph.
Box 1, Folder 7
Sheet music: "Schmetterling" (manuscript)
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
Box 1, Folder 4
Postcard
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Browning, Elizabeth (Barrett), 1806-1861
Box 1, Folder 5
Poem, "Meditations"
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Box 1, Folder 6
Card.
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto, 1866-1924
Box 1, Folder 8
Score: "Cortege..." (manuscript)
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item, 36 pages.
Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842
Box 1, Folder 9
Letter, in French, with envelope and portrait
1804
Physical Description: 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
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item. Autographed, "Mark Twain."
Flotow, Friedrich von, 1812-1883
Box 1, Folder 11
Letter
April 16, 1899
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von, 1714-1787
Box 1, Folder 12
Letter, envelope with broken seal.
November 1783
Physical Description: Holograph, 2 leaves.
Box 1, Folder 12
Portrait of Gluck from unknown publication
Physical Description: 1 item.
Gounod, Charles François, 1818-1893
Box 1, Folder 13
Letter, in French
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, 1843-1907
Box 1, Folder 14
Postcard
November 9, 1900
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Grillparzer, Franz, 1791-1872
Box 1, Folder 15
Letter, with envelope and seal
1861
Physical Description: Holograph, 2 leaves.
Halévy, Kaqies François Fromental Elias, 1799-1862
Box 1, Folder 16
Letter, in French.
April, 1819.
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Hugo, Victor Marie, comte, 1802-1885
Box 1, Folder 25
Letter, in French
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921
Box 1, Folder 24
Postcard, in German
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Kienzl, Wilhelm, 1857-1941
Box 1, Folder 17
Postcard, in German.
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Box 1, Folder 23
Letter
May 6, 1988
Physical Description: 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
Physical Description: Holograph, 2 leaves.
Box 1, Folder 20
Letter, in German
May 30, 1880
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Box 1, Folder 20
3 portraits of Liszt from unidentified publications
Physical Description: 3 items.
Box 1, Folder 20
Sheet music (manuscript)
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 sheet.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsorth, 1807-1887
Box 1, Folder 19
Letter
February 24, 1863
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
Box 1, Folder 21
Letter
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1885
Box 1, Folder 22
Sheet music (manuscript)
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 sheet.
Box 1, Folder 22
Mendelsohn autograph
Physical Description: 1 item.
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864
Box 1, Folder 26
Letter, in French
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 1792-1868
Box 1, Folder 27
Letter, in French
1932
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf.
Saint Saens, Camille, 1855-1921
[item(s) missing, 7/24/2008 - Olvera]
Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896
Box 1, Folder 32
Postcard
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 item.
Spontini, Gasparo Luigi Pacifico, 1774-1851
Box 1, Folder 28
Letter, in French
April 19, 1935
Physical Description: 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
Physical Description: Holograph, 2 items.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Box 1, Folder 31
Portrait of Richard Wagner from unknown publication
Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 1, Folder 31
Letter, in German
February 10, 1877
Physical Description: Holograph, 1 leaf. Typescript of translation of letter from German to English.
