Harold Spivacke collection
Published: 1923
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3900
Subjects: Correspondence; Photographs; London String Quartet; Music; Archives; Music librarians; Library of Congress; Budapest String Quartet; Manuscripts; Library of Congress. Music Division
Description: The collection contains materials relating to Spivacke's life and career, including correspondence, student notebooks, speeches, his dissertation, photographs, clippings, programs, manuscript and printed music, artwork, awards and honorary degrees, and business papers. The Correspondence series contains both personal and business correspondence with composers, musicians, musicologists, and librarians, including Richard Angell, Higini Anglès, Leonard Bernstein, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola, Olin Downes, Carl Engel, Alberto Ginastera, Roy Harris, Jascha Heifetz, Otto Kinkeldey, Riccardo Malipiero, Dayton C. Miller, Fritz  Oberdörffer, Elie Siegmeister, Isaac Stern, Igor Stravinsky, and Gertrude Clarke Whittall. In addition to his dissertation and student notebooks, the Writings series includes essays, notes for speeches and presentations, writings about Spivacke by others, and a number of articles and essays dealing with music. The Photographs series contains personal and professional photographs of Spivacke and his friends and family, including Gertrude Clarke Whittall, Patrick Saul, Olin Downes, Otto Kinkeldey, Alberto Ginastera, Ira Gershwin, Percy Grainger, the Budapest String Quartet and the London String Quartet. In addition, there are photographs of Albert and Alfred Einstein, Eugen d'Albert, and family portraits of Spivacke with his wife Rose Marie. Items in the Artwork series include small watercolors by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a charcoal  portrait of Spivacke from 1929, and a reproduction of a charcoal portrait of Spivacke's first wife, Carolyn Le  Fèvre, both by George Beline. The Music series includes holograph scores inscribed to Harold Spivacke and signed  by Luigi Dallapiccola and Riccardo Malipiero.
Notes: Open to research.

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Harold Spivacke Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.

Acquired; Sept. 1986.

transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.

Harold Spivacke (b. July 18, 1904, in New York City; d. May 19, 1977, in Washington, D.C.) was a music librarian, administrator, musicologist, and musician. He was chief of the Library of Congress Music Division for thirty-five years, from 1937 to 1972. In 1955, he married Rose Marie Grentzer, a noted teacher and choral conductor to whom he remained married until his death. Rose Marie Spivacke died on Nov. 11, 1985.

Materials primarily in English, with a few items in German.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu011011

The Library of Congress Music Division holds the Spivack Fund (Rose Marie and Harold Spivacke) Collection.