Arne Oldberg collection
Published: 1887
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5000
Subjects: Correspondence; Composers; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.); Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Music; Archives; Manuscripts
Description: The music materials in the collection include music scores, parts, and sketches, including holograph and copyist manuscripts, published copies, and photocopies, of Oldberg's works, and two folders of music composed by Oldberg's father, Oscar. In addition, there are Oldberg's student notebooks containing harmony and counterpoint studies and his sketchbooks from Northwestern. The correspondence details his years in Europe as a student as well as his later activities as composer and instructor. Notable correspondents include Charles Wakefield Cadman, Arthur Farwell, Arthur Foote,  Frederic Grant Gleason, Theodor Leschetizky, Emil Liebling, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Fritz Reiner, George Szell, Leopold Stokowski, and Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler. There is also a significant amount of correspondence with his father. The programs document performances of Oldberg's works by several orchestras, most notably the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The collection also contains writings, awards, clippings, biographical materials, financial material, a few photographs, and miscellaneous items.
Notes: This catalog record replaces NUCMC entry MS 72-1787.

Open to research.

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Correspondence described in: "Recent acquisitions of the Music Division." Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress, 29/1 (Jan. 1972).

Arne Oldberg Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Elsa and Henry J. Zettelman; 1970.

Arne Oldberg (b. July 12, 1874, in Youngstown, Ohio; d. Feb. 17, 1962, in Evanston, Ill.) was a composer, musician and music professor. He joined the Northwestern University piano faculty in 1897, was appointed professor of music in 1899, and served as professor of piano and composition and director of the graduate department of the Music School until his retirement in 1941.

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