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Felix Borowski Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Frederic Grant Gleason papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

Theodore Thomas Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thomas
Abstract

Correspondence, mainly incoming, of Theodore Thomas, the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Rose Fay Thomas; photographs of musicians; and a small collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Thomases.

Dates: 1852-1926

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German 2
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Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 2
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 2
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 2
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 2
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 2
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Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 2
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 2
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 2
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 2
Arliss, George, 1868-1946 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.). Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924 1
Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 1
Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 1
Floersheim, Otto, 1853-1917 1
Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
Gleason, Frederic Grant, 1848-1903 1
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grove, George, 1820-1900 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Illinois Music Teachers Association 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 1
Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929 1
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 1
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 1
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Music Teachers National Association 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941 1
Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906 1
Powell, Maud, 1867-1920 1
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 1
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899 1
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 1
Thomas, Rose Fay, 1852-1929 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 1
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 1
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