Operas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered musical compositions. General works about opera are entered under the heading Opera.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Adelina Carola Appleton Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 128
Overview:
Music and other materials by Adelina Carola Appleton (1886-1958).
Dates:
1890-1921
Hanover royal music archive
Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 146
Overview:
The Hanover Royal Music Archive consists of printed and manuscript music, printed books about music, and related materials assembled by Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, and his successors. A significant component originated in England and concerns musical activity of several children of George III, circa 1770-1837, particularly Ernest Augustus, then Duke of Cumberland, and Princess Augusta, as well as Prince George of Cumberland, son of Ernest Augustus and later Georg V, King of Hanover. These...
Dates:
1651-1951, bulk 1770-1870
Thomas de Hartmann Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 46
Overview:
Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann (1886-1956)
Dates:
1902-1982 (inclusive)
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Overview:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and...
Dates:
1640-1983
Walter McClintock Papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1175
Scope and Contents:
The papers and photographs in this collection document the history and customs of the Piegan Indians (also known as the Blackfeet Indians) in Montana, and their contact with Europeans and Anglo Americans. The collection provides detailed information about McClintock's photographic practice, as well as his public presentations about the Piegan Indians. A significant part of the collection records the development and production of Poia, an opera based on Piegan...
Dates:
1874-1949, bulk 1888-1949
Maurice Sand Papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1463
Overview:
The Maurice Sand papers contains family and professional correspondence, publishing contracts, writings, drawings, posters, and other material by or about the nineteenth-century author, illustrator, and puppeteer. The collection offers substantial documentation of Sand's theatrical work from the late 1840s to the 1880s; included are holograph scripts, scenarios, or posters for over forty puppet plays created by Sand. The collection also includes three novel drafts, a set of playing cards issued...
Dates:
1833-1995, bulk 1848-1889
The Virgil Thomson Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 29, MSS 29A
Overview:
Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
Dates:
1804-1990 (inclusive)
The Karl Weigl Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 73
Overview:
Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the Austrian-American composer Karl Weigl (1881-1949), as well as the papers of his wife, the composer Vally Weigl (1899-1982).
Dates:
1894-1986 (inclusive)
Found in:
Yale University Music Library
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The Karl Weigl Papers
Register to the Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya
Collection
Call Number: MSS 30
Overview:
Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German-American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and the German-American actress and singer Lotte Lenya (1898-1981)
Dates:
1890-1984, inclusive