Morton Gould papers
Contributors: G. Schirmer, Inc
Published: 1920
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18715
Subjects: Correspondence; Photographs; Motion picture music; Television music; Composers; Scores and parts; Music; Archives; Scores; Manuscripts; Musicals
Description: The collection contains music, including holograph and copyist manuscripts, printed scores, orchestral parts, lyric sheets, and sketches of Gould's compositions and arrangements; correspondence from friends and associates, including items from notable public figures, performers, and composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Ernest Bloch, Bill Clinton, Agnes DeMille, Percy Grainger, Ronald Reagan, Jerome Robbins, Artur Rodzinski, and Nicolas Slonimsky; business papers, including comprehensive G. Schirmer works lists that identify Gould's published and unpublished arrangements; writings by and about Gould; photographs; scrapbooks; programs, clippings, and promotional materials related to his career; and financial and legal documents.
Notes: Open to research.

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Morton Gould Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Deborah Gould, Abby Gould Burton, David Gould, and Eric Gould; 1996.

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

The USIA Artistic Ambassador Program Musical Commissions collection in the Library of Congress Music Division contains a holograph manuscript of Gould's Patterns for piano (1987).

American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist (b. Dec. 10, 1913 in New York; d. Feb. 21,1996 in Orlando, Florida).

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010028