Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Inez Fabbri Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1858-[ca. 1908]
Collection number: ARCHIVES FABBRI 1
Creator:
Fabbri, Inez, 1831-1909
Extent: Number of containers: 3 boxes & 1 large oversize
portfolio
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:
Constance Horstman, Sacramento; The E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, October, 1976
(see item 22).
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], Inez Fabbri collection, ARCHIVES FABBRI 1, The Music Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Madame Inez Fabbri, 1831-1909, was prima donna assoluta, originally in Frankfurt am Main,
later in San Francisco, Calif. She toured South America, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the
United States.
Scope and Content
Collection includes newspaper clippings and scrapbooks; studio photographs of Madame
Fabbri wearing her opera gowns, photograph albums of her colleagues and family; an
unpublished draft of a romance of Madame Fabbri's life by her grand niece, Agnes Jacoby;
a tape recording of an interview by John A. Emerson with Katherine Shortridge in 1977
concerning her great aunt; a volume of 16 published compositions by Fabbri's first
husband, Richard Mulder; and other memorabilia.
Twenty-four (24) items in 3 boxes (item 24 is placed in a large oversized portfolio
numbered "193," not in a box.)