Composers

Specialists

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

  • Anne Parker Wigglesworth, Portrait of Henry Cowell. 1964. Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm. Gift of Henry Cowell Coolidge Wigglesworth.

    Henry Cowell Collection

    This collection contains Sydney Cowell's donations of published scores and recordings of her husband's music. The scores are integrated into the collection and are listed in SearchWorks (search subject "henry cowell collection").  A small collection of print materials is housed in our storage facility.  It may be paged through SearchWorks; allow 2-3 business days for delivery..

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    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    The Judith Rosen Collection consists of unpublished recordings of performances, lectures, and radio programs concerning classical music, focusing on twentieth century composition, as well as women musicians and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.

  • Primavera [1928], manuscript detail

    Dane Rudhyar papers, 1922-1973

    Includes manuscripts of musical compositions, and correspondence (1924-1973)

  • Letter from Debussy to G. Moureg, 1919

    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.