Guide to the John and Anna Gillespie Research Files for Notable Twentieth-Century Pianists

Lisa Koch and Dawn Burley

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893-3062

Fax: (805) 893-5749

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Guide to the John and Anna Gillespie Research Files for Notable Twentieth-Century Pianists

Collection number: PA Mss 68

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Lisa Koch and Dawn Burley
Date Completed:: May 2008
Encoded by:: Lisa Koch

Descriptive Summary

Title: John and Anna Gillespie research files for Notable twentieth-century pianists

Dates: 1900-1995

Collection number: PA Mss 68

Creator: Gillespie, John, 1921-

Creator: Gillespie, Anna.

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: Research files on twentieth century pianists compiled by John and Anna Gillespie for the book "Notable twentieth-century pianists: a bio-critical sourcebook" (Greenwood press, 1995). Files include photocopied clippings of articles, books and concert reviews, programs, publicity materials, photographs, and correspondence.

Extent: 13 linear ft. 9 boxes

Physical location: Boxes 1-8 are stored off-site at SRLF. Advanced notice is required for access to these materials. Box 9 is available in the Special Collections department. Please contact the UCSB Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English German Italian French

Restrictions on Access

PARTS OF COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE at SRLF. Advance notice required for access.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

John and Anna Gillespie research files for Notable twentieth-century pianists. PA Mss 68, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Anna Gillespie, 2006.

Biography / Administrative History

John E. (Jack) Gillespie (1921-2003) was professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara for over 40 years. He authored "Five Centuries of Keyboard Music" (1964), "The Musical Experience" (1968), "Nineteenth-Century European Piano Music," "Nineteenth-Century American Piano Music," "Notable Twentieth-Century Pianists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook," (1995) and numerous articles. He also made a series of recordings of harpsichord music. His wife, Anna Gillespie, collaborated with her husband on many of his projects.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection is made up of research files on twentieth century pianists compiled by John and Anna Gillespie for their book "Notable twentieth-century pianists: a bio-critical sourcebook" (Greenwood press, 1995). The collection is organized into the following series: I. Artists, II. Educators, III. Instruments, IV. Photographs. Series I, which includes the great majority of the materials, is organized alphabetically by pianist. These files contain a mix of clippings of articles, books, concert reviews, programs, publicity materials and correspondence featuring artists (primarily pianists). Series I has three subseries containing research materials devoted to a pianist, multiple pianists, and prominent harpsichordists. Series II contains research material on piano educator Tobias Matthay. Series III includes articles and book excerpts on the development of musical instruments; specifically player pianos, harpsichords and organs. Series IV includes the photographs published in the Gillespies’ book “Notable Twentieth Century Pianists.”

Arrangement

Organized into the following series: I. Artists, II. Educators, III. Instruments, IV. Photographs.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Pianists--Biography

Photographs

Clippings

Related Material

Related materials including research files for John and Anna's book "Nineteenth-Century American Piano Music" can be found in the John and Anna Gillespie Collection, housed at the Music Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

1 Artists

1 Pianists

Box 1: 1

Anda, Geza

Box 1: 2

Ansorge, Conrad

Box 1: 3

Argerich, Martha

Box 1: 4-5

Arrau, Claudio

Box 1: 6

Ashkenazy, Vladimir

Box 1: 7

Ax, Emanuel

Box 1: 8

Bachauer, Gina

Box 1: 9

Bachaus, Wilhelm

Box 1: 10

Badura-Skoda, Paul

Box 1: 11

Barenboim, Daniel

Box 1: 12

Barere, Simon

Box 1: 13

Bar-Illan, David

Box 1: 14

Bauer, Harold

Box 1: 15

Berman, Lazar

Box 1: 16

Bishop-Kvoacevich, Stephen, aka Stephen Bishop

Box 1: 17

Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie

Box 1: 18

Bolet, Jorge

Box 1: 19

Boolanger, Nadia

Box 2: 1

Brailowsky, Alexander

Box 2: 2

Browning, John

Box 2: 3

Brendel, Alfred

Box 2: 4

Busoni, Ferruccio

Box 2: 5

Carreño, Teresa

Box 2: 6

Casadesus, Robert

Box 2: 7-8

Cherkassky, Shura

Box 2: 9

Ciccolini, Aldo

Box 2: 10

Cortot, Alfred

Box 2: 11

Curzon, Clifford

Box 2: 12

Cziffra, György, aka Georges Cziffra

Box 2: 13

D'Albert, Eugen

Box 2: 14

Davidovich, Bella

Box 2: 15

Demus, Jörg

Box 2: 16

Dichter, Misha

Box 3: 1

Diémer, Louis

Box 3: 2

Douglas, Barry

Box 3: 3

Egorov, Youri

Box 3: 4

Entremont, Philippe

Box 3: 5

Feltsman, Vladimir

Box 3: 6

Firkusny, Rudolf

Box 3: 7

Fischer, Annie

Box 3: 8

Fischer, Edwin

Box 3: 9

Fleisher, Leon

Box 3: 10

Frager, Malcolm

Box 3: 11

Francois, Samson

Box 3: 12

Frank, Claude

Box 3: 13

Freire, Nelson

Box 3: 14

Friedberg, Carl

Box 3: 15

Friedman, Ignaz

Box 3: 16

Gabrilowitsch, Ossip

Box 3: 17

Ganz, Rudolf

Box 3: 18

Gavrilov, Anderi

Box 3: 19

Gelber, Bruno L.

Box 3: 20

Gieseking, Walter

Box 4: 1

Gilels, Emil

Box 4: 2

Godowsky, Leopold

Box 4: 3

Goldenweiser, Alexander

Box 4: 4

Gorodnitzki, Sascha

Box 4: 5-6

Gould, Glenn

Box 4: 7

Graffman, Gary

Box 4: 8

Grainger, Percy

Box 4: 9

Greef, Arthur de

Box 4: 10

Gulda, Friedrich

Box 4: 11

Gutiérrez, Horatio

Box 4: 12

Hambourg, Mark

Box 4: 13

Haskil, Clara

Box 4: 14

Hess, Myra

Box 4: 15-16

Hofmann, Josef

Box 4: 17-18

Horowitz, Vladimir

Box 5: 1

Horszowski, Mieczyslaw

Box 5: 2

Istomin, Eugene

Box 5: 3

Iturbi, José

Box 5: 4-5

Johnannesen, Grant

Box 5: 6

Janis, Byron

Box 5: 7

Josefey, Rafael

Box 5: 8

Joyce, Eileen

Box 5: 9

Kapell, William

Box 5: 10

Katchen, Julius

Box 5: 11

Katsaris, Cyprien

Box 5: 12

Kempff, Wilhelm

Box 5: 13

Kentner, Louis

Box 5: 14

Kocsis, Zoltan

Box 5: 15

Kraus, Lili

Box 5: 16

Lamond, Fredric

Box 5: 17

Laredo, Ruth, aka Ruth Meckler

Box 5: 18

Larrocha, Alicia de

Box 5: 19

Leginska, Ethel

Box 5: 20

Lechetizky, Theodor

Box 5: 21

Levitzki, Mischa

Box 5: 22

Lhévinne, Josef

Box 5: 23

Lhévinne, Rosina

Box 6: 1

Lipati, Dinu

Box 6: 2

List, Eugene

Box 6: 3

Lortie, Louis

Box 6: 4

Lupu, Radu

Box 6: 5

Lympany, Moura

Box 6: 6

Magaloff, Nikita

Box 6: 7

Marcus, Adele

Box 6: 8

Masselos, William

Box 6: 9

Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti

Box 6: 10

Moiseiwitsch, Benno

Box 6: 11

Moravec, Ivan

Box 6: 12

Neuhaus, Heinrich

Box 6: 13

Ney, Elly

Box 6: 14

Novaes, Guiomar

Box 6: 15

Ogdon, John

Box 6: 16

Ohlsson, Garrick

Box 6: 17

Pachmann, Vladimir de

Box 6: 18-19

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

Box 6: 20-21

Perrihia, Murray

Box 6: 22

Perlemuter, Vlado

Box 6: 23

Petri, Egon

Box 7: 1

Philipp, Isidor

Box 7: 2

Planté, Francois

Box 7: 3-4

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Box 7: 5-7

Richter, Sviatoslav

Box 7: 8-9

Rosen, Charles

Box 7: 10

Rosenthal, Moriz

Box 7: 11-12

Rubenstein, Arthur

Box 7: 13

Samaroff, Olga

Box 7: 14

Sauer, Emil

Box 7: 15

Schiff, Andras

Box 8: 16-17

Schanabel, Artur

Box 8: 1-2

Serkin, Peter

Box 8: 3

Serkin, Rudolf

Box 8: 4

Solomon, aka Cutner, Solomon

Box 8: 5

Stojowski, Sigismund

Box 8: 6

Tureck, Rosalyn

Box 8: 7

Uchida, Mitsuko

Box 8: 8

Vasary, Tamas

Box 8: 9

Vengerova, Isabelle

Box 8: 10

Viana da Motta, José

Box 8: 11

Viñes, Ricardo

Box 8: 12-13

Watts, Andre

Box 8: 14

Weissenberg, Sigi

Box 8: 15-16

Wild, Earl

Box 8: 17

Zimerman, Krystian

2 Multiple Pianists

Box 8: 18

Miscellaneous Pianists, A-D: Alexander, Anderszewski, Algerich, Baermann, Bernstein, Bronfman, Dresel

Box 8: 19

Miscellaneous Pianists, E-L: Foss, Fuller-Maitland, Helfgott, Kissin, Klansky, Licad-Meneses, Long

Box 8: 20

Miscellaneous Pianists, M-O: Menuhin, Morrison, Nakamatsu, Oppitz

Box 8: 21

Miscellaneous Pianists, P-Q; Papart, Parker, Pogorelich, Pollini, Pommier, Prokofiev

Box 8: 22

Miscellaneous Pianists, R-Z: Rifkin, Thibaudet

3 Harpsichordists

Box 8: 23

Harpsichordists: Kipnis, Kirkpatrick, Malcolm, Marlowe, Landowska, Wanda

2 Educators

Box 8: 25

Matthay, Tobias, Piano Educator

3 Instruments

Box 8: 26

Player Pianos, Edwin Welte and Vorsetzers

Box 8: 27

Harpsichord Articles

Box 8: 28

Organ Articles

4 Photographs

Box 9: 1-2

Photographs from Notable 20th Century Pianists