Guitar Music in Libraries
- GUITAR COLLECTIONS
- Denmark
- Det Kongelige
Bibliothek, Copenhagen
- Rischel
& Birket-Smith Collection
- "The heart of the collection was collected by the Danish engineer and guitar player Thorvald Rischel (1861-1939)... Another part of Rischel's collection derived from the Danish guitar player J.G. Holm, who had also been a friend of Coste, and from P. Schulte, a Swede who had owned most of the handwritten works by Coste in copies revised by Coste himself. Rischel also acquired all the available compositions for guitar by Fernando Sor, many of them in rare first editions, and a great deal of unpublished music by J.K. Mertz.
- After Rischel's death in 1939, his collection of music was dispersed. Most of it came to the librarian and guitar player Frederik Birket-Smith (1880-1952). The rest of the collection was delivered to the Royal Library in Copenhagen. After Birket-Smith's death the Royal Library received the joint collections of Rischel and Birket-Smith."
- (From Larson/Danner Catalogue. History of the Collection.)
- England
- Birmingham
Conservatoire, Birmingham
- Early
Printed Music Collection
- Miscellaneous collection of scores and parts
published ca. 1700-1850 by composers such as Handel, Haydn and Hummell.
Albums of songs, piano and guitar music by minor composers of the
period.
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
- Appleby Guitar Collection
- Royal Academy of Music, London
- Spencer Collection
- Robert Spencer (1932-1997) was connected with the lute as a performer, scholar, teacher and collector of instruments and of manuscripts. He was well known as a soloist and as an ensemble performer and first achieved an international reputation accompanying Alfred Deller, an artistic relationship which extended over many years. He was the much-loved professor of early English song at the Royal Academy of Music, and taught here for nearly a quarter of a century. Robert Spencer's important collection of books, manuscripts and instruments was built up over many years. He used it as a working library to enable him to carry out the detailed scholarly research which underpinned his performances and teaching activities. The collection was acquired by the Academy in 1998 with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Mrs Jill Spencer, the Britten-Pears Foundation and contributors to a public appeal. As well as an invaluable collection of 16th and 17th century music for lute and guitar, now in the Academy's Library, the Spencer Collection also contains a fine collection of 17th century engravings of performers and venues. Items on display include a Renaissance-style lute by Venere, Padua 1584 (with original back and modern reconstruction neck and table), the Margaret Board lute book of c.1610 and the Mynshall lute book of 1597.
- Germany
- Stadtbücherei Augsberg
- Frei Vereinigung zur Foerderung guter Guitaremusik
- Launch the Online-Katalog, enter "ga hb" and select Signatur from the pop-up menu and you will get 305 results. Online catalog is not yet complete.
- Ireland
- Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin
- Hudleston Collection
- A private collection of music for solo guitar and guitar with voice and/or ensemble. This comprises the works of 19th century guitar composers, mainly first editions. It includes some guitar tutors, as well as tutors for other instruments. There are also arrangements by Hudleston in manuscript form.
- Italy
- Japan
- Scotland
- A.K. Bell Library, Perth
- Atholl Collection
- A collection of mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music. It was assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray, daughter of the 7th Duke of Atholl. It was left to the Sandeman Library (now the A K Bell Library) on condition that it be known as the Atholl Collection, and to be kept intact. It contains all the great songs and music collections of the 18th and 19th centuries, together with poetry manuscript material and some ephemera. The collection is mostly of Scottish music and includes all the famous song collections such as those of Herd, Ramsay, Burns, Scott, Lady Nairne, Hoff, Motherwell, Maidment, Kirkpartrick, Sharp, Ritchie Kinloch, Christie, Ritson and Ford, and tune collections such as those of Bremner, Gow, Glen and Marshall. Distinguished compilations such as the Gesto and Killin collections are also represented.The collection also includes original manuscripts such as William Dixon's Tune Book of 1734.
- Sweden
- Kenneth Sparr Collection, Nynäshamn
- A catalogue of early prints and manuscripts for the guitar in the collection of Kenneth Sparr. The catalogue spans the period 1760-1900. The collection contains many Swedish and French prints.
- The Music Library of Sweden, Stockholm
- Fryklund Collection
- The Fryklund Collection, bequest in 1965. The large collection of Daniel Fryklund is split between the Library and the Stockholm Music Museum(part of the same organization). The Library owns his somewhat eclectic collection of music: from 16th-century prints, album leaves in the hands of numerous composers, and an extensive collection of printed guitar music from the early 19th century.
- Boije Collection
- The Boije Collection, donated in 1924. Guitar music in printed editions from the early 19th century and mss. (e.g., autographs by Johann Kaspar Mertz). Together with the Fryklund collection it forms a substantial body of such music, nicely complemented by the Rischel och Birket-Smith collections in the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
- United States
- California
- California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles
- International Guitar Research Archive
- In 1980, Vahdah Olcott-Bickford-Revere nee Ethyl Lucretia Olcott (1885-1980) passed away leaving a legacy of American and foreign guitar music prints, guitar journals and correspondence reflecting the history of guitar in the United States from 1880 to the present. This unique guitar music collection is now being catalogued and contains over 10,000 titles of 19th and 20th century editions. The collection first appeared under the name VOB (Vahdah Olcott-Bickford). Within a decade, many donors sent music prints, journals and correspondence to add to the collection. The name was changed to reflect this growing collection to IGRA (International Guitar Research Archive). A special topic appeared in The Cadenza under the series "The Guitarist" Vol. XXVIII, No. 4 (April 1921), entitled "The Gentle Art of Collecting." In this article Vahdah speaks of her favorite hobby, "collecting a fine library of guitar literature," and goes on to say "This is a delightful kind of collecting, not only for the soloist, the teacher and the 'guitar fan', but for the students of the instrument as well." The article discusses the merits of collecting "modern writers," obtaining those editions soon to go "out of print" and the "old masters." She concludes by saying the collector "will find it interesting, practical, very economical and altogether fascinating." Her own collection reflects this attitude and demonstrates a keen eye for variety and rarity. This is true of the total collection.
- Vahdah Olcott-Bickford Collection
- Andres Ségovia Collection
- Randy Rhoads Collection
- Laurindo Almeida Collection
- Augustine Foundation Collection
- Vicente Gomez Collection
- St. Mary's College, Moraga
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Southern California
- Bickford Collection
- Bickford Collection: Vahdah and Zarh Bickford, both noted guitar soloist in Southern California during the mid-twentieth century, left a substantial collection of approximately five thousand solo guitar works. Most of these pieces were published in Argentina during the 1950s.
- Colorado
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Krick Collection
- Collection contains approximately 300 original and published manuscript guitar music arrangements by Krick, Foden and many other noted guitarists; manuscripts of 19th and early 20th century guitar music, mandolin music; and guitar method books.
- Maryland
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.
- Missouri
- Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis
- Washington University, St. Louis
- Krick Collection
- George C. Krick, 1872-April 2, 1962, concert guitarist and teacher of classical guitar. He was born in Germany and came to St. Louis at the age of 16 where he studied with William Foden. Later, he joined Foden on the New York concert stage as well as concertized independantly and directed the George C. Krick Music Studios in Germantown, Philadelphia before he returned here at age 70. After his death the 21 volumes of solo guitar music that he had had bound were given to this university by his family in 1963. They include works by Albeniz, Coste, Foden, Giuliani, Legnani, Mertz, Regondi, Sors, Tarrega, Terzi and Zani de Ferranti. The collection was indexed in 1974 by Alan Rosenkoetter, Guitar Instructor in the Music Department.
- Ohio
- Virgina
- George Mason University
- Sophocles Papas Collection
- Research materials in the Papas Music Collection include:
• Printed sheet music
• Manuscripts for classical guitar
• Lessons, exercises, and etudes for guitar students
• Periodicals such as Guitar Review and Soundboard
• Publications of Columbia Music Company
• Publications of the Washington Guitar Society
• Personal date and address books belonging to Sophocles Papas
• Books from Sophocles Papas' personal library
• Biographical materials
• Newspaper and magazine clippings about Papas
- Washington, D.C.
- Library of Congress
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Collection
- The large archives of 20th century composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) have been given to the Library of Congress by the composer's son, Lorenzo Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco, widow of the composer's son, Pietro. Together with an extensive collection of music manuscripts that the composer and his family gave to the Library in the past, and a number of manuscripts by Castelnuovo-Tedesco in the Library's Moldenhauer Archives, this collection is now the preeminent archives for the study of this important composer.
- LIBRARIES
- Austria
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- England
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Scotland
- Sweden
- Russia
- United States
- California
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Virgina
- Washington, D.C.
- RESOURCES
- Monographs
- Bažant,
Josip. Gitarist Ivan Padovec
(Varaždin, 1800. - 1873.): Virtuoz, skladatelj, glazbeni pedagog i
nakladnik.
- Music Society "Vijenac",
Zagreb
- Varaždin Municipal
Museum
- Archive der
Gesellschaft der
Musikfreunde, Wien
- Croatian
Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Croatian
State Archives
- Croatian
Music Institute
- Croatian
Musicological Society
- Croatian
Association of Guitar
Pedagogues
- Det Kongelige
Bibliothek, Copenhagen
- Konvent d'Minoriten, Wien
- University
in Zagreb, Academy of Music,
Zagreb
- Museum of
Art and Handicrafts, Zagreb
- National
Library, Oslo
- National
Library of the Czech Republic,
Prague
- National
and University Library, Zagreb
- Oesterreichische
Nationalbibliothek,
Wien
- The
Music Library of Sweden, Stockholm
- Stadt- und
Universitatsbibliothek,
Frankfurt am Main
- Dissertations
- Greene, John Franklin. William Foden:
American Guitarist and Composer. 1988. University of Missouri,
Kansas
City. (UMI 8813518)
- Cox, Paul Wathen. Classic Guitar Technique
and Its Evolution as Reflected in the Method Books ca. 1770-1850.
1978.
Indiana University. (UMI 7909683)
- Heck, Thomas. The Birth of the Classic
Guitar and Its Cultivation in Vienna, Reflected in the Career and
Compositions of Mauro Giuliani (d. 1829). 1970. Yale University.
(UMI
71-16249)
- Klasinc, Natasa. A Survey of Selected Guitar
Works by Ivan Padovec. 2000. University of Southern Mississippi.
(UMI
3000246)
- Banks, William Ashton. Justin Holland: The
guitar's black pioneer. 1987. The American University. (UMI
1332435)
- Books
- Larsson/Danner Catalogue of the Rischel and Birket-Smith Collection of Guitar Music in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. Compiled by Jytte Torpp Larsson and edited by Peter Danner. Editions Orphee.
- Stempnik, Astrid. Caspar Joseph Mertz: Leben und Werk des letzten Gitarristen im österreichischen Biedermeier. 1990. Verlag Peter Lang.
- Wynberg, Simon. Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti: a Biography. 1989. Chanterelle Verlag.
- Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek am Joanneum, Graz
- Archiv der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna
- Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels
- Bibliotheek van het Koninklijk Muziek-Conservatorium, Gent
- Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Liège
- Staatsbibliothek (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz), Berlin
- Landshaupstadt, Munich
- Musikhistorisk Museum, Copenhagen
- Det Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen
- Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
- The Music Library of Sweden, Stockholm
- Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- New York Public Library, New York
- Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
- Washington University, Krick Collection, St. Louis
- Library of Congress
- The National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
- Music
- Mozzani, Luigi. Opere per Chitarra. 1995. Bèrben.
- Online
- REFERENCES
- The following people contributed to this list directly or indirectly. I wish to thank each of them for their help. Items about which they contributed are listed after their names.
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