[MR] FW: [UUHomeschoolers] Library of Congress releases Music History from Primary Sources

[Lisa Z. Morgan]

 From someone on my homeschoolers' list.

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The Library of Congress's Music Division is pleased to announce the release
of a new online presentation in American Memory:

The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial:  Music History from Primary
Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives:  
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/moldenhauer/.

The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately
3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval
period through the modern era and are the richest composite gift of musical
documents ever received by the Library. 
Before his death, Hans Moldenhauer (1906-1987) established a directive and
provided funds for the Library of Congress to publish 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.  
The online presentation also includes digitized versions of more than 130
primary-source documents from the collection.

Born in Mainz, Germany, in 1906, Hans Moldenhauer immigrated to the United
States in 1938 to elude the rising tide of Nazi oppression. He eventually
settled in Spokane, Washington, where he founded that city's Conservatory of
Music in 1942.  An accomplished pianist, teacher, scholar, and mountain
climber, he began amassing his archives of primary sources shortly after
World War II. 

Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in about 1950, Moldenhauer progressed
into blindness for more than 20 years. As his eyesight deteriorated, he
increasingly relied upon the assistance of his wife, Rosaleen, a former
student and a musicologist in her own right, in assembling his collection. 

Hans Moldenhauer procured manuscripts by composers such as Alban Berg,
Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, and Witold Lutoslawski,
and obtained numerous items from the archives of Gustav Mahler, Mario
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Arnold Schoenberg. Moldenhauer acquired the Webern
Archive in the 1960s and with his wife Rosaleen wrote the seminal biography
Anton Webern, A Chronicle of His Life and Work (New York: Knopf, 1978).

Before his death, Moldenhauer sent parts of his archives to the Library of
Congress and to other institutions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the
United States. In 1987, at his bequest, the balance of his archives came to
the Music Division of the Library of Congress, where they remain one of the
greatest collections of primary-source music materials ever assembled. 

American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ is a gateway to rich
primary-source materials relating to the history and culture of the United
States. The site offers more than 10 million digital items from more than
125 historical collections.

Please use the American Memory Ask A Librarian web form: 
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory2.html or the Music Division's Ask A
Librarian Web form: 
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-perform2.html  for any inquiries about
this collection.

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Laura Gottesman
Reference Specialist
Digital Reference Team
The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/








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