Finding Aid for the Heinrich Marschner Collection of Music, Papers and Memorabilia

Processed by Music Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé

UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections

University of California, Los Angeles, Library

Performing Arts Special Collections, Room A1713

Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Phone: (310) 825-4988

Fax: (310) 206-1864

Email: speccoll-paging@library.ucla.edu

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Finding Aid for the Heinrich Marschner Collection of Music, Papers and Memorabilia

Collection number: 77

UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

University of California, Los Angeles, Library
Performing Arts Special Collections, Room A1713
Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Phone: (310) 825-4988
Fax: (310) 206-1864
Email: speccoll-paging@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/performingarts/index.cfm

Processed by:: Music Special Collections staff
Encoded by:: Caroline Cubé

Descriptive Summary

Title: Heinrich Marschner Collection of Music, Papers and Memorabilia

Collection number: 77

Origination: Marschner, Heinrich, 1795-1861.

Extent: 3 boxes.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Performing Arts Special Collections

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Shelf location: Held at SRLF. Please contact the Department of Music Special Collections for paging information.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Charlotte S. Myers and Allen Dean Palmer, 1988.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Heinrich Marschner Collection of Music, Papers and Memorabilia, Collection number 77, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.

Access Points

Composers--Germany.

Composers--Portraits.

Music--Scores.

Scope and Content

Collection includes photographs, printed scores and sheet music, and assorted articles and newspaper clippings.

Container List

Box 1

1 Portrait of Marschner. Framed engraving, with annotations; 8 1/4 in. X 6 1/4 in.

Box 1

2 Portrait of Marschner. Oval photograph, autographed; 2 1/2 in. X 2 in.

Box 1

3 Portrait of Marschner. Carte de visite; 4 3/4 in. X 2 1/2 in.

Box 1

4a-4b Portrait of Marianna Stahl (Marschner's great-granddaughter). Mounted photograph with annotations; 3 1/2 in. X 2 1/2 in.

Box 1

5 Portrait of Toni Marschner. Photograph. 2 1/2 in. X 4 in.

Box 2

1 Compendium of separate musical publications. Includes works by Anthony Philip Heinrich, J.P.E. Hartman, Adolphe Hess, F.W. Grund, et al.

Box 2

2 The Cadeau: a Christmas, New Year's, Midsummer, or Birth-day Present. For 1831. Album containing 6 illustrations, 6 songs, and 15 instrumental pieces for piano by various composers

Box 3

1 Ave Maria. (Musical composition.) Photocopy, in copyist's hand.

Box 3

2 Aria: "An jenam Tag, da du mir Treu versprochen". (Musical composition.) Printed sheet music; from Marschner's opera "Hans Heiling"; published by Otto Forberg. Includes additional copy, published by B. Schott (Mainz, n.d.)

Box 3

3 Romanze for piano, violin, and violoncello. (Musical composition.) Printed score with parts; published by C.F. Peters.

Box 3

4 Miscellaneous articles from books and periodicals regarding Marschner. Photocopies.

Box 3

5 Copy of Ovation (Vol.5 , no. 8, Sept. 1984). Contains article regarding Marschner on p. 51.

Box 3

6 Portrait of Marschner. Engraving of statue of Marschner, reproduced in an early German newspaper.

Box 3

7 Biography of Heinrich Marschner. Bound photocopy of biography, written in German by Georg Munzer, published in Berlin, 1901.

Box 3

8 Biography of Marschner. Cover for item 3g; also contains original preliminary and title pages.

Box 3

9 Vienna State Opera. Printed brochure containing historical information regarding the opera house.

Box 3

10 Vienna State Opera. 2 postcards and three photographs of opera house.

Box 3

11 "Das Marschner--Denkmal fur Hannover." Article from German newspaper, UEber Land und Meer (Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung, 1877.

Box 4

1 Heinrich Marschner and His Opera, Der Vampyr. Bound copy of thesis of Allen Dean Palmer (in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the M.A. degree in Music at UCLA. Dated 1975.

Box 4

2 Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861) and His Stage Works. Bound copy of dissertation of Allen Dean Palmer (in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Music at UCLA. Dated 1978.

Box 4

3 Der Templer und de Judin. Photocopy of music by H. Marschner, published by F. Hofmeister, Leipzig, 18??.

Box 4

4 Schon Ella. Photocopy of music by H. Marschner, published by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig, [n.d.]. Adapted for the keyboard.

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