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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Dr. Richard J. Bing collection of music scores
Creator:
Bing, Richard J., 1909-2010
Identifier/Call Number: 0213
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/212
Physical Description:
37.2 Linear Feet
25 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1930-2005
Abstract: Collection consists of the collected musical manuscripts of Dr. Richard J. Bing (1909-2010), composer and former Director
of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.
Language of Material:
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Richard J. Bing (1909-2010) earned his medical degree at the University of Munich in 1934, he left Nazi Germany shortly after
and continued his study at the University of Bern in Switzerland where he earned another medical degree in 1935. He took a
fellowship in Copenhagen at the Carlsberg Biological Institute and was then invited to Rockefeller Institute in New York on
the early development of machine perfusion. His work in the field of cardiology took him to institutions around the country,
and eventually he joined the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California as the Director of Experimental
Cardiology and Scientific Development. He conducted pioneering cardiology research in cardiac metabolism, enabling the accurate
measurements of the effect of drugs on the heart, studied the chemistry of heart attacks, and developed techniques for high-speed
photography of the coronary vessels.
Bing studied piano at the Berlin Music Academy and organ in Bern; has composed over 250 works, for piano and voice, chamber
ensembles, orchestra and chorus.
Collection consists of the collected musical manuscripts of Dr. Richard J. Bing (1909-2010), composer and former Director
of Experimental Cardiology and Scientific Development at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to USC in 1997.
[Box/folder# or item name], Dr. Richard J. Bing collection of music scores, Collection no. 0213, University Archives, Special
Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Composers
Composition (Music) -- Archival resources
Music
Scores
Bing, Richard J., 1909-2010 -- Archives