Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Remarks:
Material Cataloged Separately
Descriptive Summary
Title: Ernest Quinan Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1923-1932
Collection number: ARCHIVES QUINAN 1
Creator:
Quinan, Ernest, d. ca. 1957
Extent: Number of container: 1 box
Repository: The
Music Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Donor:
Mr. Wickham Quinan, Berkeley, in honor of his brother. May 1, 1957.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in
writing to the Head of the Music Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ernest Quinan collection, ARCHIVES QUINAN 1, The Music Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Content
Collection of manuscript scores, in ink or pencil, chiefly for piano, with several works
for strings and piano, and Variations for string quartet. Many noted as being composed in
Paris, others in Berkeley, Calif.
Remarks:
This notice by Professor Vincent Duckles appeared in the
CU News(May 23, 1957):
MUSIC COLLECTION
Wickham Quinan of Berkeley has presented the music collection of his brother, the late
Ernest Quinan, to the Library. Included in the collection of Mr. Quinan, who attended the
University in the 1920s and was one of the first winners of the George Ladd Prize for
musical composition, are 15 original compositions in manuscript which will be housed in
the Rare Books Department. The Music Library will be enriched by over 100 handsomely
bound musical scores and books and music, several pictures, and a bronze replica of the
death mask of Beethoven.
In addition to these MS materials, the Music Library holds 2 translations by Ernest
Quinan. These are cataloged in Case X:
- 1. Gedalge, André, Traité de la fugue (Paris: Enoch & Cie, 1901), 379 pp. This published volume contains profuse annotations
by Ernest Quinan.
- 2. Gedalge, André, Treatise on the Fugue. English translation by Tatiana de S. Quinan and Ernest Quinan. Bound typescript
copy dated Berkeley, California, May 1, 1925. The volume contains only a translation from the French of the text, not the musical
examples. A note signed by Ernest Quinan states: "This translation (is) for the sole use of the undersigned..."
- 3. Koechlin, Charles, A Summary of the Rules of Counterpoint. English version by Ernest Quinan. (Paris: Au Menestral, 1927),
137 pp. Two copies with the inscription in ink: "For the Library, University of California. In token of appreciation. Ernest
Quinan. Paris, November 30, 1927. (Ladd Fellowship in Music), 1925-27."
Material Cataloged Separately
Translations of works by the musicologists André Gedalge and Charles Koechlin,
made by Ernest Quinan, have been cataloged separately and added to the general
collections of the University of California, Berkeley Music Library.