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Finding Aid for the Collection of Musicians' Autographs, 1783-1919
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Title: Collection of Musicians' Autographs,
Date (inclusive): 1783-1919
Collection number: 602
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Walter Slezak, 1947.
Collection originally assembled by Walter Slezak.
[Identification of item], Collection of Musicians' Autographs (Collection 602). Department of Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Collection contains musicians' holographs, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Ferruccio Bevenuto
Busoni, Luigi Cherubini, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Charles Francois Gounod, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gustav
Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Engelbert Humperdinck, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Giuseppe
Verdi, and Richard Wagner. Collection also contains autographs by historical and literary figures such as Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Mark Twain, Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rudyard Kipling, and Victor Hugo.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Musicians--Autographs.