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Oster Collection: Papers of Heinrich Schenker
Title: The Oster Collection: Papers of Heinrich Schenker
Call Number:Film D378: 47 microfilm reels.
Abstract: The Oster Collection, bequeathed to the New York Public Library by Ernst Oster, represents the major portion of the Nachlass of the Viennese music theorist Heinrich Schenker. It contains published and unpublished analyses and writings on music (particularly the works of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin) as well as writings on non-musical topics, correspondence with students, acquaintances (such as Otto Erich Deutsch, Wilhelm Furtwangler, and Hans Weisse) and his publishers, Universal-Edition (including directors Emil Hertzka and Alfred Kalmus) and Drei Masken Verlag. It also contains published music scores annotated by Schenker, clippings, and miscellaneous materials.
Guide:The Oster collection: papers of Heinrich Schenker: a finding list/ compiled by Kosovsky, Robert. This is located on the Lower Level in the Microforms Department, Call No. Film D378 Guide. A second copy is located on the 4th Floor in the Music Library, Call No. ML138.O87 1990.
