Composers

Specialists

Ray Heigemeir

Public Services Librarian for Music

(650) 384-9985

raymondh@stanford.edu

Music

Music history

Music theory

Jazz

Instrumental music

Composers

Ethnomusicology

Musical instruments

Musical theater

Voice

Popular music

Opera
Frank Ferko

Sound Archives Metadata Librarian

(650) 721-2142

fferko@stanford.edu

Sound recordings

Music history

Music theory

Composers

Musical theater

Opera

Blogs

Summer students encounter rare music | June 28, 2017

Composers and their works | June 23, 2017

Henry Cowell's tone clusters and The Harp of Life | May 23, 2017

New exhibit at the East Asia Library - Mario Paci: An Italian Maestro in China | January 17, 2017

Celebrate Bach's birthday | March 14, 2016

Topic guides

Beethoven

Notable collections

Henry Cowell Collection

This collection contains Sydney Cowell's donations of published scores and recordings of her husband's music.
Judith Rosen Collection

The Judith Rosen Collection consists of unpublished recordings of performances, lectures, and radio programs concerning classical music, focusing on twentieth century composition, as well as women musicians and composers.
Dane Rudhyar papers, 1922-1973

Includes manuscripts of musical compositions, and correspondence (1924-1973)
Newberry collection of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century composers, 1830-1930

Letters, manuscripts and printed works by composers including Brahms, Debussy, Cimarosa, Piatti, and Franchomme.