Jascha Heifetz Collection [collection]

Title

Jascha Heifetz Collection [collection]

Dates Created

Span: 1802-1987

Bulk: 1911-1974

Language

English

Form

collection

Physical Description

52 ft.

280 boxes

Abstract

Jashca Heifetz (1901-1987) was an American violinist of Russian birth. He made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at age 11, and his American debut at Carnegie Hall at age 16 in 1917. A stellar international career followed, spanning six decades. The collection includes Heifetz's personal music library of original compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions (some of which are unpublished), and his annotated parts and scores, holographs and manuscripts of many of his contemporaries, hundreds of printed scores. Concert programs document his performances from 1911-1974, and photographs, photo albums and scrapbooks, encompassing the violinist's entire life. The correspondence, constituting a small part of the collection, contains letters from such important musical figures of the 20th century as Leopold Auer, Benjamin Britten, Sergey Prokofiev, George Bernard Shaw, and Sir William Walton; correspondence from Heifetz is also housed in other Music Division collections.

Contents Note

Holograph scores, annotated published music, programs, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks.

Preferred Citation

The Jascha Heifetz Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

Access Permissions

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Copyright Information

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Subjects

Violin Music

Heifetz, Jascha

Auer, Leopold

Britten, Benjamin

Prokofiev, Sergey

Shaw, George Bernard

Walton, William

Repository

Music Division, Library of Congress

Finding Aid

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003008

Updated

06-15-2009