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Nicolas Slonimsky Collection [collection]
- Title
- Nicolas Slonimsky Collection [collection]
- Date Created
- Span: 1873-1997
- Date Created
- Bulk: 1920-1990
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 500 ft.
- Physical Description
- 354 boxes
- Language
- English; Russian (Cyrillic)
- Abstract
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was a musicologist, composer, conductor, and lecturer. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgard Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mostly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's Biographical Dictionary and The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians; music collected by Slonimsky; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.
- Subjects
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Musicologists and Theorists
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Orchestral Music
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Chamber Music
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Slonimsky, Nicolas
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Cowell, Henry
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Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich
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Harris, Roy
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Ives, Charles
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Varèse, Edgard
- Contents note
- Music, correspondence, books and related documents
- Preferred citation note
- Nicolas Slonimsky collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Call no.: ML31.S6
- Access permissions note
- There are no restrictions on viewing any of the material in this collection. Copyright laws apply.
- Copyright link note
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Repository
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Music Division, Library of Congress
- Finding Aid
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011.3