Overview
Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of the music critic Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), including collected photographs and programs. Also includes collection of letters from Aldrich to Otto Dresel (1826-1890).
Dates
- Creation: 1842-1956
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1883-1938
Language of Materials
Collection materials are primarily in English. Also includes materials in French and German.
Extent
9.5 linear feet (9 boxes) I. Correspondence. The Correspondence series is organized alphabetically by name. Correspondence within this collection includes: letters to Richard Aldrich from family, social, and professional contacts (many connected to the world of music) and a collection of letters from Aldrich to Otto Dresel, German concert pianist and emigrant to the United States. Aldrich's compositions include manuscript and typescript essays by Aldrich and other musicologists, and some clippings of Aldrich's reviews for the New York Times.
II. Compositions. The Compositions series is organized alphabetically by title. This series includes manuscript and typescript essays by Aldrich and other musicologists. Also includes some clippings of Aldrich's reviews for the New York Times.
III. Compositions by Others. The Compositions by Others Series in arranged alphabetically by author. This series includes essays and other writings by colleagues of Aldrich. A few items include letters sent with composition.
IV. Biographical Materials on Richard Aldrich. The Biographical series is arranged by genre. It includes a large number of Aldrich's appointment books and a small number of family photographs.
V. Work Files. This series includes research materials related to the publication of Aldrich's A catalogue of books relating to music in the library of Richard Aldrich as well as numerous concert programs, a pair of subject file notebooks, and a scrapbook of clippings containing book reviews and research material.
VI. Materials Collected by Richard Aldrich. This series is arranged by genre and includes Aldrich's collection of cabinet photographs of prominent musicians. Also includes brochures and printed music.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), a graduate of the Harvard University class of 1885, was the chief music critic for the New York Times ca.1902-1924. Aldrich also authored several books on music criticism and was an avid collector who put together one of the finest private music libraries, now a part of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Correspondence
- ___A. Correspondence of Richard Aldrich
- ___B. Letters to Otto Dresel, 1826-1890, and family
- II. Compositions
- III. Compositions by others
- IV. Biographical materials on Richard Aldrich
- V. Work flies
- VI. Materials collected by Richard Aldrich
- Aldrich subject files
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
93M-0224. Transferred from the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University; received: 1970.
Separated Materials
The Aldrich subject files contained clippings from newspapers and music magazines, programs, paraphernalia, and from American, British, French, and German publications. They were kept in envelopes inscribed by Aldrich. The clippings could not be saved due to their physical deterioration, but the texts from the inscriptions on the envelopes were retained and are listed below.
Bibliography
- Aldrich, Richard. A catalogue of books relating to music in the library of Richard Aldrich. New York, 1931.
- Aldrich, Richard. Concert life in New York, 1902-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1934.
- Aldrich, Richard. Musical discourse : from the New York Times. London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1928.
Aldrich subject files
These files contained clippings from newspapers and music magazines, programs, paraphernalia, and from American, British, French, and German publications. They were kept in envelopes inscribed by Aldrich. The clippings could not be saved due to their physical deterioration, but the text from the inscriptions on the envelopes were retained and are listed below. Entries in this list are often supplemented with first names taken from the clippings. Identification of persons were taken from the clippings as well. Entries are Aldrich's wording.
Organized: A. General subjects; B. Persons; C. Organizations; and D. Terms (same as subjects?)
Abbreviations for Persons: comp = composer; cond = conductor; crit = critic; ed = educator; org = organist; pia = pianist; sin =singer; vn = violinist.
- A. General subjects
- ___ American musical history [native]
- ___ American singers
- ___ Ballet
- ___ Berlin
- ___ Brass bands
- ___ Carols
- ___ Catholic church music (Pius X reform)
- ___ Chicago musical organizations and history
- ___ Christmas carols
- ___ Church music, New York
- ___ Conductors and conducting
- ___ Contrabass
- ___ Copyright
- ___ Critics and criticism
- ___ English church music
- ___ English composers
- ___ English opera
- ___ "Faust" in music
- ___ Festivals
- ___ Folk music
- ___ France: music in
- ___ French minor composers
- ___ Futurist music
- ___ Futurist music
- ___ Hebrew music
- ___ Holland
- ___ Incidental music
- ___ Italy
- ___ Japanese music
- ___ Libraries
- ___ Lied
- ___ London: opera and concert
- ___ Manhattan opera house
- ___ Marches
- ___ Metropolitan opera house
- ___ "Modern" in music
- ___ Music schools
- ___ National hymns
- ___ National theatre
- ___ Neo Russian [composers]
- ___ Norse composers
- ___ Opera bouffe
- ___ Opera in English
- ___ Oratorio
- ___ Orchestra organization and history
- ___ Organ music
- ___ Parsifal
- ___ Pianoforte
- ___ Pitch
- ___ Plagiarism
- ___ Polish Music
- ___ Popular songs
- ___ Prodigies. Infant
- ___ Professors of music
- ___ Programme music
- ___ Programmer & programme making
- ___ Russian music
- ___ Singing
- ___ Songs
- ___ State subventions
- ___ Strauss Richard: Salome, Elektra
- ___ Strauss, Richard: Rosenkavalier, Ariadne
- ___ Symphony
- ___ Translations
- ___ Violins
- ___ [Women in music]
- ___ Zurich
- B. Persons
- ___ Auer, Leopold (vn)
- ___ Balakireff, Mily (comp)
- ___ Beach, Mrs. H.H.A. [Amy] (comp)
- ___ Beecham, Thomas (cond)
- ___ Berlioz, Hector (comp)
- ___ Bourgault-Ducoudray (comp)
- ___ Brahms, Johannes (comp)
- ___ Breton, Thomas (comp)
- ___ Bruch, Max (comp)
- ___ Bruneau, Alfred (comp, crit)
- ___ Bungert, August (comp)
- ___ Busoni, Ferruccio (comp)
- ___ Caetani, Roffredo (comp)
- ___ Calve, Emma (sin)
- ___ Caetani, Roffredo (comp)
- ___ Calve, Emma (sin)
- ___ Carpenter, John Alden (comp)
- ___ Caruso, Enrico (sin)
- ___ Casazza, Gatti (cond)
- ___ Catalani, Alfredo (comp)
- ___ Chabrier, Emmanuel (comp)
- ___ Chadwick, George Whitefield (comp)
- ___ Chaminade, Cecile (pia)
- ___ Charpentier, Gustav(comp)
- ___ Chopin, Frederic (comp)
- ___ Cilea, Francesco (comp)
- ___ Clapp, Philip Greeley(comp)
- ___ Coleridge Taylor, Samuel (comp)
- ___ Colonne, Edouard(cond)
- ___ Conelius, Peter (comp)
- ___ Converse, Frederick S. (comp)
- ___ D'Albert, Eugen (comp)
- ___ D'Erlanger, Baron
- ___ D'Indy, Vincent (comp)
- ___ Dalmores, Charles (sin)
- ___ De Reszke, Jean
- ___ Debussy, Claude (comp)
- ___ Delibes, Leo (comp)
- ___ Delius, Frederick
- ___ Denza, Luigi (comp)
- ___ Dohnanyi, Ernst
- ___ Donizetti, Gaetano (comp)
- ___ Dubois, Th (comp)
- ___ Dukas, Paul (comp)
- ___ Dukas, Paul Abraham (comp)
- ___ Dvorak, Anton (comp)
- ___ Eames, Emma (sin)
- ___ Elgar, Edward (comp)
- ___ Elgar, Edward (comp)
- ___ Elman, Mischa (vn)
- ___ Enescu, Georges (comp, vn, ed)
- ___ Enna, August (comp)
- ___ Fanelli, Ernest (comp)
- ___ Farrar, Geraldine (sin)
- ___ Faure, Gabriel (comp)
- ___ Ferrata, Giuseppe (comp)
- ___ Ferrero, Willy (prodigy cond)
- ___ Fevrier, Henry (comp)
- ___ Fiedler, Max (cond)
- ___ Fielitz, Alexander v. (cond)
- ___ Franchetti, Alberto (comp)
- ___ Franck, Cesar (comp)
- ___ Fremstad, Olive (sin)
- ___ Fried, Oskar (cond)
- ___ Friskin, James (comp)
- ___ Galli-Curci, Amelita (sin)
- ___ Garcia, Manuel (sin, ed)
- ___ Gatty, Ivor (comp)
- ___ Gay, Maria (singer)
- ___ Gericke, Wilhelm (cond)
- ___ Gilbert, Henry F. (comp)
- ___ Gilbert, William S. & Sullivan. Arthur (comps)
- ___ Gilibert, Claude Charles Marie (sin)
- ___ Giordano, Umberto (comp)
- ___ Glazounow, Alexander (comp)
- ___ Glier, Reynogol'd Moritsevich (comp)
- ___ Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (comp)
- ___ Goetz, Hermann (comp)
- ___ Goldmark, Carl (comp)
- ___ Goring, Thomas A. (comp)
- ___ Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (pia, comp)
- ___ Gounod, Charles (comp)
- ___ Grainger, Percy (sin, pia)
- ___ Grau, Maurice (impresario)
- ___ Grieg, Edvard (comp)
- ___ Griffes, Charles T. (comp)
- ___ Hadley, Henry K. (comp)
- ___ Hahn, Reynaldo (comp)
- ___ Hall, Marie (vn)
- ___ Hammerstein, Oscar (comp)
- ___ Handel, George Frederick (comp)
- ___ Harrold, Orville (sin)
- ___ Hausegger, Siegmund von
- ___ Haydn, Joseph (comp)
- ___ Heifetz, Jasha (vn)
- ___ Heller, Stephen (comp)
- ___ Henderson, William J. (comp)
- ___ Henschel, Georg (cond)
- ___ Herbert, Victor (comp)
- ___ Hess, Willy (vn)
- ___ Hofmann, Josef (pia)
- ___ Holbrooke, Joseph (comp, pia)
- ___ Holst, Gustav (comp)
- ___ Hopekirk, Helen (comp, pia)
- ___ Huber, Hans (comp)
- ___ Huberman, Bronislav (vn)
- ___ Humperdinck, Engelbert (comp)
- ___ Hure, Jean (comp)
- ___ Jacques-Dalcroze, E (ed)
- ___ Joachim, Joseph(vn)
- ___ Joseffy, Rafael(pia)
- ___ Juon, Paul (comp)
- ___ Kaun,Hugo (comp)
- ___ Kelley, Edgar Stillman (comp)
- ___ Kienzl, Wilhelm (comp)
- ___ Kjerulf, Halfdan (comp)
- ___ Kneisel, Franz (vn)
- ___ Kodaly, Zoltan (comp)
- ___ Korngold, Erich (comp)
- ___ Kreisler, Fritz (vn)
- ___ Kubelik, Jan (vn)
- ___ Kuhe, Wilhelm (comp, pia)
- ___ Lalo, Edouard (comp)
- ___ Lancella (comp?)
- ___ Laparra, Raoul (comp)
- ___ Lara, Isidore De (comp)
- ___ Lazari, Silvio (comp)
- ___ Lehmann, Lilli (sin)
- ___ Lehr, Franz
- ___ Lekeu, Guillaume (comp)
- ___ Leoncavallo, Ruggiero (comp)
- ___ Leroux, Xavier (comp)
- ___ Levi, Hermann (cond)
- ___ Liapounoff, Sergius (comp)
- ___ Lipsius, Marie (La Mara) (crit)
- ___ Liszt, Franz (comp)
- ___ Litolff, Henry (comp)
- ___ Loeffler, Charles Martin (comp)
- ___ MacDowell, Edward (comp)
- ___ Mahler, Gustav (comp)
- ___ Melba, Nellie (sin)
- ___ Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Felix (comp)
- ___ Messager, Andre (comp)
- ___ Meyerbeer, Giacomo (comp)
- ___ Montemezzi, Italo (comp)
- ___ Moor, Emanuel (comp)
- ___ Mottl, Felix (cond)
- ___ Musorgsky, Modest Petrovich (comp)
- ___ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (comp)
- ___ Muck, Karl (cond)
- ___ Naylor, Edward Woodall (comp)
- ___ Nevin, Arthur (comp)
- ___ Nicolai, Otto (comp)
- ___ Nikisch, Arthur (cond)
- ___ Noren, Heinrich (comp)
- ___ Nouguess, Jean (comp)
- ___ Novak, Vitezslav (comp)
- ___ Offenbach, Jacques (comp)
- ___ Ornstein, Leo (comp)
- ___ Pachmann, Vladimir de (pia)
- ___ Paderewski, Ignace Jan (comp, pia)
- ___ Paine, John Knowles (comp)
- ___ Parker, Horatio W. (comp)
- ___ Parry, Hubert (comp)
- ___ Patti, Adelina (sin)
- ___ Paur, Emil (cond, pia)
- ___ Perabo, Ernst (pia, comp, ed)
- ___ Perosi, Lorenzo (comp)
- ___ Pfitzner, Hans (comp)
- ___ Philipp, Isidor (pia)
- ___ Pierne, Gabriel (comp)
- ___ Pizzetti, Ildebrando (comp)
- ___ Pizzi, Emilio (comp)
- ___ Poldini, Edward (comp)
- ___ Ponchielli, Amilcare (comp)
- ___ Powell, John (comp)
- ___ Puccini, Giacomo (comp)
- ___ Purcell, Henry (comp)
- ___ Rachmaninoff, Serge (comp)
- ___ Rameau, Jean-Philippe (comp)
- ___ Randegger, Alberto (sin, ed)
- ___ Ravel, Maurice (comp)
- ___ Reger, Max (comp)
- ___ Renaud, Maurice (sin)
- ___ Richter, Hans (cond)
- ___ Rimsky-Korsakoff, Nicolas (comp)
- ___ Ropartz, J. Guy (comp)
- ___ Rosenthal, Moriz (pia)
- ___ Rossini, Giacomo (comp)
- ___ Rubinstein, Anton (pia)
- ___ Rübner, Cornelius (comp)
- ___ Saint-Saëns, Camille (comp)
- ___ Santley, Charles (sin)
- ___ Sarasate, Pablo de (vn, comp)
- ___ Sauer, Emil (pia)
- ___ Scheel, Fritz (cond)
- ___ Schelling, Ernest (pia, comp)
- ___ Schmitt, Florent (comp)
- ___ Schoenberg, Arnold (comp)
- ___ Schubert, Franz (comp)
- ___ Schumann, Georg (comp)
- ___ Schumann, Robert (comp)
- ___ Schumann-Heink, Ernestine (sin)
- ___ Scriabin, M. Alexander (comp)
- ___ Seidl, Anton (cond)
- ___ Sembrich, Marcella (sin)
- ___ Sgambati, Giovanni (comp)
- ___ Sibelus, Jean (comp)
- ___ Sinding, Christian (comp)
- ___ Sinigaglia, Leone (comp)
- ___ Sjoegren, Emil (sin)
- ___ Smetana, Bedrich (comp)
- ___ Smith, David Stanley (comp)
- ___ Smyth, Ethel (comp)
- ___ Sommer, Hans (comp)
- ___ Spontini, Gaspare (comp)
- ___ Stanford, Charles Villiers (comp)
- ___ Stenhammar, Vilhelm (comp)
- ___ Stock, Frederick A. (comp)
- ___ Stradal, August (comp)
- ___ Strauss, Richard (comp)
- ___ Stravinsky, Igor (comp)
- ___ Strube, Gustav (comp)
- ___ Stucken, Frank van der (cond)
- ___ Suk, Josef (vn)
- ___ Sullivan, Arthur (comp)
- ___ Taneieff, Serge (comp)
- ___ Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilitsch (comp)
- ___ Tetrazzini, Luisa (sin)
- ___ Thomas, Ambroise (comp)
- ___ Thomas, Theodore (cond)
- ___ Tinel, Edgar (comp, pia)
- ___ Toch, Ernest (comp)
- ___ Toscanini, Arturo (cond)
- ___ Vecsey, Franz v. (vn)
- ___ Verdi, Giuseppe (comp)
- ___ Volbach, Fritz (comp)
- ___ Wagner, Richard (comp)
- ___ Wagner, Siegfried (comp)
- ___ Weber, Carl Maria von (comp)
- ___ Weingartner, Felix (comp, cond)
- ___ White, Richard Grant (crit)
- ___ Whitney, Myron (sin, author)
- ___ Wilhelmj, August (vn)
- ___ Williams, Vaughan (comp)
- ___ Witkowsky, G.M. (comp)
- ___ Wolf, Hugo (comp)
- ___ Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno (comp)
- ___ Wolfrum, Philipp (comp)
- ___ Wolstenholme, William (comp, org)
- ___ Wood, Henry Joseph (cond, org)
- ___ Woyrsch, Felix (comp)
- ___ Ysaye, Eugene (vn)
- ___ Zandonai, Riccardo (comp)
- C. Organizations
- ___ Chicago Orchestra
- ___ Chicago Symphony
- ___ Cincinnati Festival and Orchestra
- ___ Handel and Haydn Society
- ___ Metropolitan Opera
- ___ Musical Protective Union
- ___ Opera Comique, Paris
- ___ Oxford [University] Press
- ___ Paris Conservatoire
- ___ Philadelphia Orchestra
- ___ Philharmonic, Berlin
- ___ Philharmonic Society, London
- ___ Philharmonic Society, New York
- ___ Pittsburg Orchestra
- ___ Prinzregenten Theater
- ___ Ricordi [Publishing house]
- ___ Symphonic Society, New York
- ___ Worcester, Mass, Festival
- D. Terms
- ___ The times; clippings on music
- ___Women in music
- ___"Faust" in music
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- Title
- Aldrich, Richard, 1863-1937. Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
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- Language of description
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- EAD ID
- hou01976
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