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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Mus 143-157

Richard Macnutt collection of musical autographs

Overview

Autograph letters and manuscripts by various composers collected by Richard Macnutt.

Dates

  • Creation: 1820-1916 and undated

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Extent

2.4 linear feet (19 volumes)

Includes autograph letters from Vincenzo Bellini to Alessandro Lamperi, Giacomo Puccini to Valentino Soldani, and Giuseppe Verdi to Edoardo Mascheroni. Also includes autograph manuscripts by Luigi Cherubini, Gaetano Donizetti, Alberto Franchetti, Romualdo Marenco, Pietro Mascagni, Saverio Mercadante, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Gasparo Spontini, Nicola Vaccaj, and Niccolò Zingarelli, among other compositions.

Biographical / Historical

Macnutt was an English collector.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

*70M-12. Purchased with the S.A.E. Morse fund and the Amy Lowell fund from Richard Macnutt, 29 Mount Sion Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England; received: 1970 July.

Title
Macnutt, Richard, collector. Richard Macnutt collection of musical autographs: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00721

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

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