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Call Number: SC1062
Creator:
Cohen, Albert, 1929-
Title: Albert Cohen papers
Dates: circa 1970-2000
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Summary: The materials consist primarily of research files from the French Académie de musique, as well as a few administrative files
from his time as chair of the Music Dept.
Language(s): The materials are in French.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
The materials were a gift of Albert Cohen, 2011.
Open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[identification of item], Albert Cohen Papers (SC1062). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Professor of Music Emeritus at Stanford, Albert Cohen is a distinguished musicologist and historian of music theory, specializing
in French music of the 17th and 18th century. He was chair of the Music Department from 1973-1990, during which time he raised
funds for, desiged and launched the Braun Music Center. A masterful performer on both violin and treble viol, Cohen is a graduate
of Juilliard and former Guggenheim fellow and contributor to the
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and
Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. He retired from Stanford in 2001.
The materials consist primarily of research files from the French Académie de musique, as well as a few administrative files
from his time as chair of the Music Dept.
The materials are arranged in two series: Series 1. Administrative Files; Series 2. Research Files.
Cohen, Albert, 1929-
Music--France--History and criticism.
Music--France--Paris--Manuscripts
Music--Theory--17th century.
Music--Theory--18th century.
Stanford University--Faculty.