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Title
The Serge Koussevitzky archive
Other Title
Koussevitzky archive
Alternate Title
Koussevitzky archive
Created / Published
Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005, monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Koussevitzky, Serge -- 1874-1951 -- Correspondence
-  Koussevitzky, Serge -- 1874-1951 -- Archives
-  Music -- 20th century -- Sources
-  Musicians -- Correspondence
-  Abell, Arthur M -- Correspondence
-  Berezowsky, Nicolai -- 1900-1953 -- Correspondence
-  Bernstein, Leonard -- 1918-1990 -- Correspondence
-  Borovsky, Alexander -- 1889-1968 -- Correspondence
-  Boulanger, Nadia -- Correspondence
-  Carpenter, John Alden -- 1876-1951 -- Correspondence
-  Carvalho, Eleazar de -- Correspondence
-  Copland, Aaron -- 1900-1990 -- Correspondence
-  Downes, Olin -- 1886-1955 -- Correspondence
-  Hadley, Henry Kimball -- 1871-1937 -- Correspondence
-  Harris, Roy -- 1898-1979 -- Correspondence
-  Harris, Johana -- Correspondence
-  Hindemith, Paul -- 1895-1963 -- Correspondence
-  Knopf, Alfred A -- 1892-1984 -- Correspondence
-  Koshetz, Marina -- Correspondence
-  Koussevitzky, Natalie -- Correspondence
-  Koussevitzky, Olga -- Correspondence
-  Mackinnon, Lilias -- Correspondence
-  Newman, Ernest -- 1868-1959 -- Correspondence
-  Prokofiev, Sergey -- 1891-1953 -- Correspondence
-  Roussel, Albert -- 1869-1937 -- Correspondence
-  Sevitzky, Fabien -- 1891-1967 -- Correspondence
-  Shostakovich, Dmitrii? Dmitrievich -- 1906-1975 -- Correspondence
-  Sibelius, Jean -- 1865-1957 -- Correspondence
-  Sorokin, Pitirim Aleksandrovich -- 1889-1968 -- Correspondence
-  Stravinsky, Igor -- 1882-1971 -- Correspondence
-  Tansman, Alexandre -- 1897-1986 -- Correspondence
-  Zederbaum, Vladimir -- Correspondence
Genre
finding aid
Notes
-  Serge Koussevitzky, conductor and double bassist, was born July 26, 1874, in Vishniy Volochek. Koussevitzky founded the publishing house Editions russes de musique in 1909 which issued music by Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. He left Russia in 1920 for Berlin and then Paris, where he founded the Concerts Koussevitzky (1921-1929), with which he performed new music. He was conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949 from which position he championed the music of American composers. Koussevitzky died in Boston on June 4, 1951.
-  The materials had been maintained at one time by Mrs. Koussevitzky in the Koussevitzky's home in Lenox, Mass., and in an apartment in New York.
-  Gift Olga Koussevitzky 1960.
-  Bequest Olga Koussevitzky 1978.
-  Restrictions apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Music Division for information concerning these restrictions.
-  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and on the Internet.
-  The Serge Koussevitzky archive, Music Division, Library of Congress.
Extent
145 p. ; 21 cm.
Repository
Library of Congress Music Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Library of Congress Control Number
2002604961
Access Condition
Restrictions apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a reference librarian in the Music Division for information concerning these restrictions.
LC Classification
ML31 .K66
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