Leonard Bernstein collection : Part I, circa 1900-1994 (bulk 1933-1990).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: around 400,000 items (1227 boxes, 508 linear feet)Contained works: - Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Works. Selections
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Correspondence
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Manuscripts
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Autographs
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 -- Archives
- Music -- Manuscripts -- United States
- Conductors (Music) -- United States -- Correspondence
- Composers -- United States -- Correspondence
- Musicians -- United States -- Correspondence
- Antoniou, Theodore, 1935- -- Correspondence
- Blitzstein, Marc -- Correspondence
- Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981 -- Correspondence
- Boulanger, Nadia -- Correspondence
- Boulez, Pierre, 1925- -- Correspondence
- Chavez, Carlos, 1899-1978 -- Correspondence
- Comden, Betty -- Correspondence
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 -- Correspondence
- DePreist, James, 1936-2013 -- Correspondence
- Diamond, David, 1915-2005 -- Correspondence
- Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969 -- Correspondence
- Farberman, Harold, 1929- -- Correspondence
- Fine, Irving, 1914-1962 -- Correspondence
- Frantz, Justus -- Correspondence
- Ginastera, Alberto, 1916-1983 -- Correspondence
- Gould, Morton, 1913-1996 -- Correspondence
- Green, Adolph -- Correspondence
- Green, Johnny, 1908-1989 -- Correspondence
- Hume, Paul, 1915-2001 -- Correspondence
- Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 -- Correspondence
- Kostelanetz, Andre, 1901-1980 -- Correspondence
- Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951 -- Correspondence
- Lieberson, Goddard, 1911-1977 -- Correspondence
- Lipkin, Seymour -- Correspondence
- Markevitch, Igor, 1912-1983 -- Correspondence
- Mauceri, John -- Correspondence
- Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007 -- Correspondence
- Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 -- Correspondence
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960 -- Correspondence
- Moseley, Carlos -- Correspondence
- Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978 -- Correspondence
- Nagano, Kent, 1951- -- Correspondence
- Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 -- Correspondence
- Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- -- Correspondence
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Correspondence
- Peress, Maurice -- Correspondence
- Perle, George, 1915-2009 -- Correspondence
- Piston, Walter, 1894-1976 -- Correspondence
- Prawy, Marcel, 1911-2003 -- Correspondence
- Réaux, Angelina -- Correspondence
- Riegger, Wallingford, 1885-1961 -- Correspondence
- Robbins, Jerome -- Correspondence
- Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 -- Correspondence
- Rorem, Ned, 1923- -- Correspondence
- Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007 -- Correspondence
- Schuman, William, 1910-1992 -- Correspondence
- Shapero, Harold, 1920-2013 -- Correspondence
- Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991 -- Correspondence
- Smit, Leo, 1921-1999 -- Correspondence
- Sondheim, Stephen -- Correspondence
- Stern, Isaac, 1862-1932 -- Correspondence
- Stevens, Roger L. -- Correspondence
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 -- Correspondence
- Styne, Jule, 1905-1994 -- Correspondence
- Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 -- Correspondence
- Thorne, Francis -- Correspondence
- Tourel, Jennie -- Correspondence
- Wadsworth, Stephen -- Correspondence
- Yannatos, James -- Correspondence
- Yardumian, Richard -- Correspondence
- Zeffirelli, Franco -- Correspondence
- Amberson Inc
- ML31 .B49
Leonard Bernstein (b. August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts; d. October 14, 1990, in New York City) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, writer, and lecturer.
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, personal business papers, the archives from Bernstein's corporate identity, Amberson Inc., scrapbooks, clippings and press materials, programs, datebooks and schedules, iconography, and fan mail. In addition, there are music manuscripts for many of his compositions, including The age of anxiety (Symphony no. 2); Candide; Chichester Psalms; Fancy free; Jeremiah (Symphony no. 1); On the waterfront; Prelude, fugue and riffs; Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"; Trouble in Tahiti; West Side story; and Wonderful town.
This collection is cataloged in two parts. Part I is cataloged on LCCN mm 99096358 and contains subject headings for correspondence; Part II is cataloged on LCCN 2009536078 and contains subject headings for photographs.
Sound recordings and audio-visual materials housed in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress Music Division holds the Mildred Spiegel Zucker collection of Leonard Bernstein correspondence and related materials which contains correspondence from Bernstein to Zucker.
Open to research.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
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Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
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