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Felix Borowski Papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

John Alden Carpenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carpenter
Abstract

Correspondence, mostly incoming, to American composer John Alden Carpenter, wife Rue W. Carpenter and daughter Genevieve; also material relating to Carpenter’s works; a miscellany of personal records; and a collection of photographs, many of them of well-known musicians.

Dates: 1890-1964; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950

Louise St. John Westervelt Collection of Theatrical and Musical Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Westervelt
Abstract

Photographs, mainly cabinet photographs, of nineteenth-century musical and theatrical persons.

Dates: 1869-1930; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1891

Rudolph Ganz Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ganz
Abstract

Works, correspondence to and from prominent musical figures, family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and a couple of recordings of this world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator.

Dates: 1864-2013

Theodore Thomas Papers

 Collection
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 3
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Names
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 3
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 3
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 3
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 3
Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 2
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Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 2
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 2
Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929 2
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 2
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 2
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 2
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 2
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 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
Barrymore, John, 1882-1942 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 1
Briggs, Clare A., 1875-1930 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931 1
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 1
Chicago Musical College 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 1
Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939 1
Floersheim, Otto, 1853-1917 1
Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
G. Schirmer, Inc. 1
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972 1
Gleason, Frederic Grant, 1848-1903 1
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 1
Grove, George, 1820-1900 1
Herriman, George, 1880-1944 1
Hill, Genevieve Carpenter 1
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Illinois Music Teachers Association 1
Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931 1
Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 1
Jones, Robert Edmond, 1887-1954 1
Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 1
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 1
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 1
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 1
McCormack, John, 1884-1945 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964 1
Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964 1
Music Teachers National Association 1
Nicholson, William, 1872-1949 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) 1
Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 1
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941 1
Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906 1
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 1
Powell, Maud, 1867-1920 1
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 1
Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 1
Roosevelt University 1
Rubinstein, Anton, 1829-1894 1
Rubinstein, Artur, 1887-1982 1
Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000 1
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899 1
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 1
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 1
Szell, George, 1897-1970 1
Thomas, Rose Fay, 1852-1929 1
Toklas, Alice B. 1
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 1
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 1
Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962 1
Westervelt, Louise St. John 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
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