Composers and musicians.

Martinu (autograph letter, signed, to Leslie Rogers, asking for scores of his Symphony No.3, 24 June 1946), Samuel Barber (autograph one-page correction-list ("Directions to copyist") for Die Natali, Op.37), Lukas Foss (3 autograph letters, signed, about Mozart's Idomeneo), Leon Kirchner (autograph letter, signed, 23 January 1960, and autograph correction-lists for his Toccata for strings, wind and percussion, and his Piano Concerto No.1), Milton Babbitt, Erich Leinsdorf (typed list, signed, of performance instructions concerning concert excerpts from Götterdämmerung, and two typed correction-lists for performances of The Magic Flute and the St. John Passion), George W. Chadwick ("You ought to dock the third horn for ruining my symphony..."), Seymour Lipkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Antal Dorati (two pages of autograph correction-lists, initialled, for The Ten Commandments), Arthur Fiedler (a black- and-white photograph showing Fiedler and Leinsdorf, 3 October 1962), Monteux (two autograph letters to Leslie Rogers, signed, 13 and 18 June 1939, and two telegrams, 15 and 18 June 1939, all concerning a transcription of the La Marseillaise), Morton Gould, Ernest Schelling (2), Carl Schuricht, Louis Krasner, Eugene Gruenberg (2), Charles Munch, Jan Meyerowitz (autograph letter signed, 30 September 1960), Hans Heinsheimer (typed letter signed, 31 March 1952), around 45 items in all, various sizes, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and elsewhere, 1918-1979, where indicated



...[Foss:] At any rate, I count on you. Don't do it for me, do it for Mozart. There ought to be a law that only a distinguished composer and one who has passed a number of tests and examinations and made a number of vows as to his loyalty to music, opera (and to the composer in question) is allowed to tamper with a classic, arranging, editing etc...

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"[Foss:]...At any rate, I count on you. Don't do it for me, do it for Mozart. There ought to be a law that only a distinguished composer and one who has passed a number of tests and examinations and made a number of vows as to his loyalty to music, opera (and to the composer in question) is allowed to tamper with a classic, arranging, editing etc..."