Darius Milhaud Collection
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Northeastern University (Oakland)
2024
Special Collections, F. W. Olin Library
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Oakland, California 94613
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Title: Darius Milhaud Collection
Dates: ca. 1920-2018
Collection Number: Consult repository.
Creator/Collector:
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974.
Extent: Consult repository.
Repository:
Northeastern University (Oakland)
Oakland, California 94613
Abstract: This collection documents Milhaud’s career as a composer and faculty at Mills College. The collection includes articles and
clippings, programs, correspondence, writings, photographs, newsletters, manuscript scores, books, published scores, recordings,
autograph scores, audio, video, and memorabilia. In general, the collection does not contain Milhaud’s personal papers. The
bulk of letters and manuscripts are retained by the Milhaud family.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Contact the Special Collections Curator, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College for copyright and permission to publish information.
[Identification of item]. Darius Milhaud Collection. Collection Number: Consult repository.. Northeastern University (Oakland)
Materials were acquired by mean of gifts from the Milhaud family (manuscripts and scores) and other donors, and by purchase.
Biography/Administrative History
Darius Milhaud was at Mills College from 1940–1946 and alternate years, 1946–1971. During those years, the Library began to
collect his compositions, books by and about him, recordings of his works, memorabilia, etc. In the 1960s, Professor Margaret
Lyon of the Music Department and Flora Elizabeth Reynolds, College Librarian, established the Darius Milhaud Collection. Materials
were acquired by mean of gifts from the Milhaud family (manuscripts and scores) and other donors, and by purchase. By 1976,
the Milhaud Archive was entered into The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections with 249 items (correspondence,
notes, four original scores, photocopies of 35 scores, books, one film, and one taped conversation). A collection development
policy was written in 1978. In 1984, an endowment fund for the establishment of the Darius Milhaud Collection of Mills College
Archives was created. The goal of the fund was to “…ensure that the Collection be preserved in perpetuity” and to hire an
archivist and purchase materials. The fund also made possible an annual concert to promote Milhaud’s work, especially to Mills
students.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection consists of articles and clippings, programs, correspondence, writings, photographs, newsletters, manuscript scores,
books, published scores, recordings, autograph scores, audio, video, and memorabilia related to Milhaud’s career as a composer
and faculty at Mills College. Record Group 1, Articles and clippings (1920’s through current day). Record Group 2, Programs
of Milhaud concerts. Record Group 3, Milhaud correspondence. Record Group 4, Milhaud’s writings. Record Group 4, Milhaud’s
writings. Record Group 5, Photo archive. Record Group 6, Milhaud Society Newsletter. Record Group 7, Symphony reviews and
notes and translations of vocal works. Record Group 8, Archive history and notes. Record Group 9, Misc. Milhaud correspondence.
Record Group 10, 1980 Darius Milhaud Celebration. Record Group 11, Manuscript scores. Record Group 12, Madeline Milhaud. Milhaud
books, books written by and about Darius Milhaud, including biographies. Published scores, an almost complete collection of
Darius Milhaud’s published scores, including mini scores, individual instrumental parts, piano reductions, manuscript scores,
and signed scores. Recordings, LPs, CDs, videotapes, tape cassettes, and DVDs. Memorabilia, scrapbook, mounted posters, etc.
Composition (Music).
Mills College -- Faculty.
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974.
Composers.