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The Serge Koussevitzky archive [finding aid]

The Serge Koussevitzky archive [finding aid]
Title
The Serge Koussevitzky archive [finding aid]
Alternate Title
Koussevitzky archive
Place of Publication/Creation
Washington, D.C.
Published/Created
2005
Publisher
Music Division, Library of Congress
Issuance
monographic
Physical Description
145 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Serge Koussevitzky, conductor and double bassist, was born July 26, 1874, in Vishniy Volochek. Koussevitzky founded the publishing house Editions russes de musique in 1909 which issued music by Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. He left Russia in 1920 for Berlin and then Paris, where he founded the Concerts Koussevitzky (1921-1929), with which he performed new music. He was conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949 from which position he championed the music of American composers. Koussevitzky died in Boston on June 4, 1951.
The materials had been maintained at one time by Mrs. Koussevitzky in the Koussevitzky's home in Lenox, Mass., and in an apartment in New York.
Gift Olga Koussevitzky 1960.
Bequest Olga Koussevitzky 1978.
Restrictions apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Music Division for information concerning these restrictions.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and on the Internet.
The Serge Koussevitzky archive, Music Division, Library of Congress.
LCCN
lccn.loc.gov/2002604961 
Identifier
hdl:loc.music/eadmus.mu002008
Repository
Library of Congress Music Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA 
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