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• The Mary Flagler Cary Collection contains the following musical items:

• Aaron Avshalomoff (1894-1965)

  ALS to M. Cary, Shanghai 27 August 1934.

• Adolf Joseph Marie Blassmann (b. 1823)

  ALS to the Russian composer Youri von Arnold (1811–1898), Dresden 21 December 1866.

• Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936)

  Composer. Ruses d'amour, ballet in 1 act, opus 61, piano score, 59 pp. Date stamped on front cover: 1898.

• Alexander Fedorovitch Goedicke (1877-1957)

  DS, Moscow 14 January 1911.

• Alexander Konstantinovitch Glazunov (1865-1936)

  ALS, St. Petersburg (?) 23 June and 6 July 1905 to Alexander Siloti; ALS, n.p., 19 October 1928; and TLS, n.p., 27 June 1935, to Alfred Cortot.

• Alexander Nikolayevitch Scriabin (1872-1915)

  Signed document, Moscow 11 May 1911.

• Alexander Petschnikoff (1873-1949)

  ALS, n.p., 2 August 1912, to Herr Gutmann.

• Alexander Porfirievitch Borodin (1833-1887)

  ALS, Tula 23 August 1881 and ALS, St. Petersburg 23 May 1886.

• Alexander Saslavsky (1876-1924)

  ALS, San Francisco 26 November 1918, to Mr. Flagler.

• Alexander Sergeyevlch Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 15 August 1865 and ALS, n.p., n.d.

• Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)

  ALS and 7 autograph postcards, signed, New York, 1922–31, to Mr. and Mrs. Flagler. Also, several letters to him, listed above.

• Alexander Tikhonovitch Gretchaninov (1864-1956)

  Musical autograph, signed, Moscow 23 May 1911; and ALS from Mrs. Gretchaninov in New York, n.d., to Mrs. Flagler.

• Alexey Feodorovitch Lvov (1798-1870)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 4 October 1833, to M. Peters; and ALS, Dresden 8 September 1842.

• Alma (Gluck) Zimbalist (1884-1938)

  3 ALS, New York and New Hartford, Connecticut, 1919 and undated, to Mr. and Mrs. Flagler and to Mrs. Cary.

• Anatol Konstantinovitch Liadov (1855-1914)

  ALS, Borovichi 18 June 1906, to Alexander Siloti.

• Anna Nikolayevna Essipoff (Annette Essipova) (1851-1914)

  Essipoff married her teacher Theodor Leschetizky in 1880; they separated in 1892. Autograph postcard, signed, from Vienna, to Karl (Karel) Navratil, 27 November 1889.

• Anton Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1829-1894)

  ALS, various places, 1856–93, including 1, 29 August 1856, to Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, another to a Mr. Schirmer, 14 December 1872, and a third, 20 June 1893, to a Herr Bock.

• Anton Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1829-1894)

  ALS, various places, 1856–93, including 1, 29 August 1856, to Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, another to a Mr. Schirmer, 14 December 1872, and a third, 20 June 1893, to a Herr Bock. Quartets, for strings (2 violins, alto, and violoncello), op. 47, dedicated to Son Excellence Monsieur le Comte Mathieu Wielhorsky, 27, 28, 24 pp. Theme et Variations pour le Pianoforte, op. 88, dedication to Jules Behrens, 27 pp.

• Anton Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1829-1894)

  Composer. Album leaf with 4 bars of music, for voice and piano, signed and dated: Ant. Rubinstein. Naples 16 Janvier 1874, 1 p.

• Anton Stepanovitch Arensky (1861-1906)

  ALS, Nice 23 March 1905, to Alexander Siloti.

• Aram Khatchaturian (1903-1978)

  Recitative and Fugue, for piano, signed twice, 4 pp.

• Armenian Manuscripts

  The library holds the following 13 items (with their respective identifying numbers): Sermons concerning the angels and the rational soul, 16th c. (M 437). Four Gospels (incomplete), 13th c. (M 620). Four Gospels, 17th c. (M 621). Menologium, A.D. 1348 (M 622). Four Gospels, A.D. 1658–59 (M 623). Four Gospels, A.D. 1588 (M 624). Scholium and epistles of St. Cyril of Alexandria, A.D. 1688 (M 625). Four Gospels, A.D. 1274 (M 740). Four Gospels, A.D. 1461 (M 749). 3 leaves from a Gospel, 10th c. (M 789). Fragment from a commentary on the epistle of St. James by Sargis Vardapet, 13th c. (M 802). Lectionary, A.D. 1334 (M 803). Lives of the saints and Christ, 17th c. vellum, 118 11. (M 949).

• Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

  Autograph postcard, signed, to S. Koussevitsky et al.

• Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)

  Author. "Night," an autograph poem in Russian, plus portions of 2 other autograph poems.

• Cesar Antonovich Cui (1835-1918)

  ALS, n.p., 2 February 1886, to an editor; and ALS, n.p., n.d.

• Clara (Clemens) Gabrilovitch (1874-1962)

  Mark Twain's daughter was married to the Russian-born pianist and conductor Osip Salomonovich Gabrilovitch in 1906. He headed the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1918–36, TLS, n.p., 27 November 1935, to Mr. Flagler.

• Eduard Napravnik (1839-1916)

  ALS, Bad Wildungen, 2 July 1907, to Alexander Siloti.

• Enrico Modisto Bevignani (1841-1903)

  Conductor and composer. ALS, St. Petersburg 26 November 1884, to Josiah Pittman, accompanist at Covent Garden, about operatic matters, 3 pp. (Ford Collection)

• Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861-1932)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 29 March 1898.

• Felia Litvinne (Litvinova) (1861-1936)

  ALS, n.p., n.d.

• Francois Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834)

  French composer. ALS from him in St. Petersburg to M. Delamarre in Moscow—about his success in Russia and his musical compositions, 8 May 1805, 3 pp.

• Gabriel Theodore Joseph, comte d'Hedouville (fl. ca. 1803)

  French general and diplomat in St. Petersburg. ALS to an unknown woman ("Madame"), sending her a box of China tea, 24 February 1803, 1 p.

• Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 16 October 1903.

• Henri Casadesus (1879-1947)

  ALS, Moscow 30 January 1913.

• Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881)

  [Fantaisie-Caprice for violin and orchestra], 71 pp., full score; at end: Fini. St. Petersbourg ce 21 fevrier 1840. H. Vieuxtemps. Completed in his 20th year, during his second concert tour in Russia; published ca. 1841 as op. 11.

• Henri Wieniawski (1835-1880)

  Lublin-born musician, court violinist in St. Petersburg, 1860–71, died in Moscow. ALS, Brussels 2 January 1876, to M. Zilcken.

• Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)

  6 ALS and APS, Morges, New York, and Paris, 1897–1938, including 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Flagler, 1938; 1 to Alfred Cortot, 2 September 1928; and a musical autograph, signed: New York 18 March 1917.

• Ignaz Tedesco (1817-1882)

  ALS, Odessa, 20 September 1869, to Karl Mikuli.

• Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971)

  Composer. [Le baiser de la fee], added in pencil; original title, La Vierge des Glaciers, crossed out; ballet in 4 scenes, piano score for 2 hands, in pencil, title page and first page in ink, 76 pp., 1928. L'oiseau de feu, dance story in 2 scenes, manuscript reduction for piano, 2 hands, 49 pp., signed and dated at end 1910, second title page dated Morges 6 December 1918. L'oiseau de feu, printed piano arrangement with many autograph corrections and additions, Moscow/Leipzig, n.d. Persephone, manuscript dedicated to Victoria Ocampo, dated Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro Mai-Juin 1936; incomplete, note at end explaining he has no time to finish, dated Augosto 30/[19]60 San Isidro. Petrouchka, signed and dated at end: Igor Stravinsky Hollywood October 14/[19]46, 147 pp. Ragtime, signed and dated at end: Igor Strawinsky (Hiver) 1918 Morges, dedicated to Madame E. Errazuriz, 8 pp. (All items in Robert Owen Lehman Collection, on deposit in The Pierpont Morgan Library)

• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

  Full orchestral score of "L'oiseau de feu," 164 pp., not autograph, with 76 manuscript and printed orchestral parts. This score and the orchestral parts were used for performances by the Ballet Russe until its demise in 1929. As of 1970, the work in ballet form had never been published in full score. Also, prelude and rondo of the princesses from "L'oiseau de feu" for violin and piano, transcribed by Stravinsky and dedicated to Paul Kochanski, 2 11. + 20 pp., unpublished. (Kochanski, 1887–1934, was a Polish violinist at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory; after 1921, he taught at the Juilliard School in New York.) Copy of the first printed edition (Moscow-Leipzig, 1910) of the piano score for L'oiseau de feu with choreographic directions on several pages, possibly in the hand of Michel Fokine; the score has many corrections and additions in Stravinsky's hand and markings of various conductors. [Etudes, piano, op. 7, nos. 1–3], 16 pp. Each etude has a dedication at the beginning and is signed and dated at the end. No. 1: Stepan Stepanovich Mitusov; Ustilug [i.e., Ustiug?], 1 May 1908. No. 2: Nicolay Ivanovich Richter; Ustilug, 29 August 1908. No. 3: Andrey Nicolayevich Rimsky-Korsakov; Ustilug, 8 September [1908].

• Issay Alexandrovitch Dobrowen (Dobroven) (1893/4-1953)

  ALS, Dresden 5 January 1928 and ALS from Mrs. Dobrowen in New York to Mr. Flagler, 5 January 1933.

• Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883)

  Author. Letter of thanks, in French, to an unknown correspondent 15 April 1868, 2 pp.; the subject is Turgenev's contacts with Thomas Carlyle.

• Jacques Francois Joseph Swebach (dit Fontaine) (1769-1823)

  Artist. ALS, St. Petersburg 26 July 1819, to Louis l'Archer de St. Vincent, concerning his personal and financial affairs, conditions in Russia, his plans to return to France, etc., 2 pp.

• James Fuld Collection

  The following holdings were previously located in Mr. Fuld's private collection and have since been acquired by the Morgan: Leon Bakst, signed card. Mikhail Baryshnikov, signed photograph. Fedor Chaliapin, signed photograph and numerous programs of his singing (operas), including one at the Marinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 5 March 1918. Sergei Diaghilev, letter, 31 October 1900, on stationery with a woodcut by L. Bakst. Mikhail Fokine, signed design. Aleksandr Glazunov, inscribed copy of Raymonda, published by Belaieff and a program for a performance of this work, 27 February 1918, at the Marinsky Theatre, with Tamara Karsavina. Reinhold Gliere, letter, 14 May 1947. Mikhail Glinka, album leaf, Ruslan and Ludmilla. Tamara Karsavina, album leaf. Aram Khachaturian, Gayaneh Waltz, inscribed; album leaf; letter, 16 January 1961; and a program from 5 December 1954, London, when he conducted. Aleksei L'vov, letter, 31 March 1847; and the only known copy in the world of the first printing of "God Save the Tsar," the Imperial Russian National Anthem (K. Petz, St. Petersburg, ca. 1833). Modeste Moussorgskii, album leaf, Khovanshchina. Vaslav Nijinsky, album leaf. Rudolf Nureyev, signed program. Anna Pavlova, signed photograph. Programs, performances of [Tchaikovsky] Chaikovskii's Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre, 30 December 1917 and 15 March 1918; performance of Rimskii-Korsakov's Snow Maiden, 12 February 1918, at the Marinsky Theatre; and Ballet Russe programs, 1910–11. Sergei Prokofiev, gavotta, signed. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rapsodie sur un Theme de Paganini, signed, and numerous programs from his performances of his own concerti. Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov, signed copy of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, published by Bessel. Anton Rubinstein, album leaf and program for his performance, 16 November 1872. Dmitry Shostakovich, dances, op. 1, signed. Igor Stravinsky, signed copy of L'Oiseau de Feu, published by Jurgenson; signed postcard; and numerous programs for concerts when he conducted his works. Petr Chaikovskii [Tchaikovsky], letter to Katherine Laroche (n.d.) and program, 1888, from a concert when he conducted his own works. Open to serious researchers.

• Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

  ALS, Jarvenpaa 19 July 1907, to Alexander Siloti.

• Karl Youlievitch Davidov (1838-1889)

  ALS, n.p., n.d.

• Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959)

  5 ALS, various places, 1927–43 and undated, to Mr. Flagler.

• Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910)

  Author. ALS, n.p., 13 May 1904, 1 p., to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, thanking him for sending books by John Ruskin and for forwarding a letter from the grand mufti of Egypt; plus a translation by Lady Anne Blunt of this philosophical letter to Tolstoi from the Grand Mufti Mohammed Abdul in Cairo, 8 April 1904, 3 pp.

• Leopold Auer (1845-1930)

  Hungarian violinist and teacher. ALS, dated St. Petersburg, 17 April 1891, to an unidentified correspondent, 4 pp.

• Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)

  Musical autograph, signed: Milan 7 December 1913.

• Maksim Gorkii (1868-1936)

  Writer. Incomplete, unsigned letter, 2 pp., to Walter Mett, 15 January 1922, concerning the organization of intellectual forces in Europe and world understanding.

• Max Reger (1873-1916)

  Autograph postcard, signed, Munich 14 June 1904, to Ossip Schnirlin; ALS, Munich 9 November 1905, to Alexander Siloti; and ALS, Leipzig 31 May 1907, to Herr Salter.

• Medieval Russian Manuscripts

  Among the illuminated and other manuscripts in the library are: Gospels and prayers, 30 September 1471, 287 ff. In Russian but with covers (wooden boards and black stamped leather) apparently coming from 16th c. Austria (M 694).

  Psalms and commentary, 15th (?) c. vellum, 219 ff. In South Russian, with original wooden boards and stamped leather (M 695).

  Hymnal, in Greek, ca. 1600, manuscript on paper with musical notation, written and illuminated in a Greek monastery. 350 services for the principal feasts of the church year, as sung in Constantinople; tooled with stamp of Byzantine double-headed eagle, with folding flap and clasp, for Russian use (?) (M 350).

  Bible. The four Gospels preceded by chapter headings and prefaces, followed by canon tables and a table of lections; manuscript on paper, written and illuminated in Russia, 1608, original red velvet over boards. (M 794)

  Six sermons, ascribed to Saint Simon, the New Theologian (d. 1032). Manuscript on paper, in Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, written and rubricated in Russia, 19th c.; illuminated title-heads, initials, tail-pieces, 113 11.; light brown morocco over boards, tooled in gold and silver, 2 clasps (M 704).

• Michael Balfe (1808-1870)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 6 March 1856, to a Mr. Smith.

• Mikhail Ivanovitch Glinka (1804-1857)

  ALS, n.p., n.d., to Adolph von Henselt and ALS, n.p., n.d., to M. Olfers.

• Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837-1910)

  "Sibirskii kozachek" (The Siberian Cossack), 1 1., dance for piano; unidentified sketches on verso. Written ca. 1891 for a Christmas party at the St. Petersburg court chapel, of which Balakirev was director. Alexander Lopatin found the manuscript on the floor and sent it, 1912, to the composer Alexander S. Taneev (Taneyev). Also, ALS from 1898 and ALS, St. Petersburg 17 December 1907.

• Moritz Karasowski (1823-1892)

  Born in Warsaw. ALS, Dresden 2 August 1877, to Karl Mikuli.

• Nicolay Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1835-1881)

  ALS, n.p., n.d., to a Herr Wolff.

• Nikolai Andreevitch Rimskii-Korsakov (1844-1908)

  ALS, St. Petersburg January 1879; ALS, Munich 20 February 1906; ALS, Paris 22 May 1907, to Albert Carre; and ADS, St. Petersburg March 1905. [Krasavitsa, op. 51, no. 4, after Pushkin], song with piano, at end: [31 July 1897. Smychkovo. N R-K.], 4 pp.

• Nikolai Karlovitch Medtner (1880-1951)

  Autograph postcard, signed, n.p., n.d.

• Nikolai Nikolayevich Blokhin (b. 1912)

  President of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences. TLS (Moscow, 22 December 1965) to Dr. Curt F. Buhler, thanking him for his interest in Blokhin's article on Vietnam in the New York Times, 1 p.

• Nikolay Andreyevitch Malko (1888-1961)

  ALS, New York 4 January 1939 and 13 June 1940, to Mrs. Cary.

• Otto Eduard Leopold, prince von Bismarck (1815-1898)

  German chancellor. ALS to an unidentified friend, mainly concerning the Polish question, 4 pp., from St. Petersburg, 4 April 1861.

• Paul Kochanski (1887-1934)

  Pole, lived in St. Petersburg in 1913–19. ALS, New York 1 February 1931 and 26 January 1933, to Mr. Flagler.

• Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910)

  3 ALS, various places, 1849 and undated; plus a musical autograph, signed: Leipzig 20 August 1843.

• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky [Chaikovskii] (1840-93)

  First edition of the piano score of "Le lac des cygnes," Paris, n.d. (1895?), probably incomplete, with extensive alterations in the hand of Sergei Diaghilev, whose copy this was; and Diaghilev's copy of the orchestral score to the same ballet (Moscow and Paris, 1895), 2 vols., with Diaghilev's annotations. Both scores were used by conductors of the Ballet Russe. Also, [Chaikovskii] Tchaikovsky's ALS, Klin 4 March 1893, and ALS, n.p., 18 January, no year, to Alexander Siloti.

• Petr Nikolaevich Krasnov (1869-1947)

  Tsarist general and anti-Bolshevik Cossack leader in the Civil War. 15 ALS, 1927–47, to Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Tschebotarioff.

• Russia. Army.

  A manuscript list entitled "The Empire of Russia's Army," dated 14 October 1764.

• Russia. Sovereigns.

  Autographs and portraits of Russian emperors and empresses from Peter I to Nicholas II (stored in a vault).

• Russia. Treaties.

  Manuscript copy in translation of a treaty dated Moscow, 11 December 1742, between George II of England and Elizabeth of Russia, 20 pp.

• Sergei Eduardovitch Bortkiewicz (1877-1952)

  ALS, Vienna (n.d.), to the music publishers Breitkopf and Hartel.

• Sergei Mikhailovitch Liapunow (Liapunov) (1859-1924)

  ALS, Paris 8 May 1924.

• Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev (1872-1929)

  Miscellaneous musical fragments, printed and manuscript, relating to productions of the Ballet Russe. See also under P. I. Tchaikovsky [Chaikovskii].

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

  Composer. 2 music manuscripts, "Pas d'acier," op. 41, 1925, 22 pp., piano score; and "Chout," op. 21, 1915, 53 pp., short score—owned by Mr. Robert Owen Lehman and on deposit only.

• Sergei Sergeevitch Prokofiev (1891-1953)

  Autograph postcard, signed, Samoreau 8 April 1926, to F. Wever; and ALS, Kansas City (Missouri) 22 January 1926, to Mr. Flagler.

• Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 24 August 1907, to Alexander Siloti; ALS and 3 TLS, New York, 1924–25, to Mr. Flagler; and ALS, Hertenstein 10 May 1939, to Alfred Cortot.

• Sergey Alexandrovitch Koussevitsky (1874-1951)

  Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1924–49. Autograph postcard, signed, Berlin 1 June 1911, to Herr Gutmann.

• Sophie Menter (1846-1918)

  "Zigeunerweisen," composed by Menter, a German pianist and composer (protegee of F. Liszt), with instrumentation by Chaikovskii [Tchaikovsky]. Full score in [Tchaikovsky] Chaikovskii's autograph, 64 pp. At end: P. Chaikovskii [Tchaikovsky]. 2 October 1891. Schloss Itter (Menter's Tirol residence). First performed in Odessa 4 February 1893, under Chaikovskii's direction. Also, ALS, St. Petersburg, n.d.

• Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915)

  Polish-born pianist and teacher (Osip Gabrilovitch was a pupil) was in St. Petersburg 1852–78. ALS, Vienna 18 November 1883.

• Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950)

  ALS to an otherwise unidentified Michail Dimitrievitch, concerning an Ollendorf language textbook, 3 pp., n.p., n.d.

• Vassily Ilyitch Safonov (1852-1918)

  ALS, Moscow 21 September 1897, to Eduard Hanslick.

• Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-1933)

  Musical autograph, signed: n.p., 28 September 1899.

• Wilhelm von Lenz (1809-1883)

  ALS, St. Petersburg 27 June 1873.

• William Bainbridge (1774-1833)

  American naval officer. ALS, 19 September 1811, addressed to Messrs. Willing and Francis, 1 p., concerning his sales of indigo in Russia.

• Wladislaw Zelenski (1837-1921)

  ALS, Warsaw 10 April 1879, to Karl Mikuli.