Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical Information
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Émile Antoine Bruguière Collection,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1899-ca. 1911]
Collection number: ARCHIVES BRUG. 1
Creator:
Bruguière, Émile Antoine, b. 1876
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
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], Émile Antoine Bruguière collection, ARCHIVES
BRUG. 1, The Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Biographical Information
Son of Émile A. Bruguière and Josephine Sather Bruguière. Studied in
San Francisco with Lorenzo Smith and Oscar Weil, and in Berlin with Georges Jacoby. His
opera
Querida, a lyric drama in two acts, from the play
Mother
Earth
by Francis Powers was published by Costallat in Paris ca. 1911 (plate no.
CC 1573). he also collaborated with Richard Henry Warren in
The Rightful Heir, a
musical satire in two acts directed especially at the conventional comic opera.
Text and lyrics by Arthur Sturgess and J. Cheever Goodwin, as produced by The Strollers.
New York: The Winthrop Press, 1899.
Scope and Content
Includes the full manuscript score of the comic opera Kosiki, and 21 songs (some
incomplete) This collection was found interleaved with the musical compositions of Oscar
Weil, Brugui`ere's teacher in San Francisco, held by the Music Library (ARCHIVES WEIL 1)
Some unidentified compositions of Brugui`ere may remain among the sketches and drafts of
Weil. See Series IX of the Oscar Weil papers. It is possible that there still remains
unidentified compositions of Bruguière among the sketches and drafts of the
Oscar Weil collection. See item 58 of the Weil collection.