The Moldenhauer Archives

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The Moldenhauer Archives presents 130 items from the richest composite collection of musical documents ever received by the Library. Documenting western musical history from the Renaissance to the Modern Era, this collection includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns, Richard Wagner, John Cage and Franz Listz. Also included with this online presentation is a guide to the archives with information on some of the works included in this collection, The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial: Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives (2000). This online presentation features the full text of this guide, which contains a series of essays by musicologists discussing individual items from the Moldenhauer Archives, as well as an inventory of items held in the Library's collection and in nine other institutions worldwide.

A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives

Intensified Hemispheric Interactions 1000-1500
Colonial Settlement — 1492-1763
The American Revolution — 1763-1783
The New Nation — 1780-1815
Expansion and Reform — 1801-1861
The Civil War and Reconstruction — 1850-1877
Development of the Industrial United States — 1876-1915
Emergence of Modern America — 1890-1930
The Great Depression and World War II — 1929-1945
Postwar United States — 1945-early 1970s

The Aaron Copland Collection
The Leonard Bernstein Collection
The Irving Fine Collection
Song Of America
The Roger Reynolds Collection

About the Collection

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