Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

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• Musical holdings include: Theodor Leschetizky—autograph score of Suite de morceaux pour piano, op. 46, no. 9, "Hommage a Chopin" (from Contes de jeunesse), dedicated to I. J. Paderewski, 12 ff.; and a photograph of him autographed with the incipit of his Serenata, op. 43, no. 1 (?) for piano; Anton Rubinstein—Miniatures: 12 morceaux pour piano, dedicated to Mme. Aglae Massart, 13 ff., bound in leather, holograph score (also, a photograph of him); and P. I. Chaikovskii [Tchaikovsky] —Sextet for two violins, two violas, and two cellos, op. 70 (from Souvenir de Florence), autograph folio from the first version, composed 1887–90, including material not in the revised version, 1891–92, beginning in the middle of the third movement and continuing to the end of the movement, holograph in black ink with corrections in purple ink and pencil, 1 f.

• Pictorial holdings include: Leon Bakst—Costume for Ida Rubinstein, pencil and watercolor on white paper, inscribed, 1911, and Costume for Anna Pavlova, pencil and watercolor on white paper, inscribed, 1913; and John Singer Sargent —pencil sketch of Jascha Heifetz at his premiere in Boston, ca. 1917?. There is also a photograph of Elizabeth Feodorovna, grand duchess of Russia, n.d.

• The Archive of the Museum is in part on display in cases in the galleries and rooms of the building. Comprises material collected by and papers of Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), American collector of art.

  Personal correspondence of Gardner includes letters from Boris Anisfeld, 1; Ossip Solomonovitch Gabrilowitsch, 2: 4 April 1918 and n.d.; Charles Martin Loeffler, 114; Ignace Jan Paderewski, 2, n.d.; Ivan Panin, 2; Anna Pavlova, 1; Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen, 10; Baroness Elizabeth Rosen, 2; and Amelie Rives [Princess Troubetzkoy], 1. (NUCMC 65–1944)

  Among correspondence collected by her is 1 letter of F. M. Dostoevskii [Dostoevsky/Dostoyevskii/Dostoyevsky].