The Contents of the Luigi Silva Collection at UNCG Purchased with Friends of the Library funds in 1963, the Luigi Silva Collection was processed at a time when computers were just being introduced into library work. The Silva Collection is searchable through the Jaclin on-line database of the Library's holdings. There is an internal finding aid for the Silva Collection available in the Special Collections Division.
Plans are to have the collection available through the Internet at a later date.
Click here for the manuscript of Silva's transcription of Johannes Brahms' Intermezzo. Friends of the Library purchase from the Estate of Luigi Silva, 1963. His mother was a Viennese singer and his father a voice teacher. Silva began piano lessons at age five years and began his cello studies three years later. The family moved to Parma and then to Rome where Silva entered the Conservatory of Music, but because of his small hands and frail health, he was not accepted for study with famous masters.