Research Catalog

Title

Otto Luening papers, 1800-1996 (bulk 1870-1996).

Author

Luening, Otto, 1900-1996.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

72.68 linear feet (203 boxes)

Summary

The Otto Luening papers contain the composer's scores, correspondence, writings, subject files, and other professional papers; and family papers of his siblings, parents, extended family, and ancestors, including the scores of his father, Eugene Luening.

Subjects

• American Music Center
• Black-and-white photographs
• Luening, Helene, 1889-1947
• Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985
• Luening, Eugene, 1852-1944
• Jarnach, Philipp, 1892-1982
• Milwaukee Musical Society
• National Federation of Music Clubs
• National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
• United States > Works Progress Administration
• Menashe, Samuel, 1925-2011
• Partch, Harry, 1901-1974
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Columbia University
• Bennington College
• Musicians
• New York Philharmonic
• Composers Recordings, Inc
• Composers > Teachers
• Neff, Severine, 1949-
• Scrapbooks
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Personal correspondence
• Porter, Quincy, 1897-1966
• National Endowment for the Arts
• Conductors (musicians) > Flutists
• Cage, John
• Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
• One-sheet posters
• Programs (documents)
• Scores
• Diamond, David, 1915-2005
• Antheil, George, 1900-1959
• Wigglesworth, Frank, 1918-1996
• University of Arizona
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
• Typescripts
• Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 1911-1990
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
• Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007
• Rockefeller Foundation
• American Composers Alliance
• Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963
• Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990
• Manuscripts (document genre)
• Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
• Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
• McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964
• Barnard College
• Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
• Bohnen, Carl A., 1872-1951
• Ives, Charles, 1874-1954
• Ziehn, Bernhard, 1845-1912
• Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977

Genre/Form

• Black-and-white photographs.
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Manuscripts (document genre)
• One-sheet posters.
• Personal correspondence.
• Programs (documents)
• Scores.
• Scrapbooks.
• Typescripts.

Access (note)

• Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Terms of Use (note)

• For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Provenance (note)

• As the last surviving member of his family, Otto Luening collected papers from his siblings, his parents, and their extended families. The source and provenance of some content in the family papers is unknown.

Call Number

JPB 94-07

OCLC

826803987

Author

Luening, Otto, 1900-1996.

Title

Otto Luening papers, 1800-1996 (bulk 1870-1996).

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Terms Of Use

For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Provenance

As the last surviving member of his family, Otto Luening collected papers from his siblings, his parents, and their extended families. The source and provenance of some content in the family papers is unknown.

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Occupation

Composers Teachers.

Conductors (musicians) Flutists.

Musicians.

Research Call Number

JPB 94-07