http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002001 Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress Music Division, Library of Congress
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Finding Aid encoded by Library of Congress Music Division, 2005 Finding aid written inEnglish 2010 March Editorial revisions made to this finding aid by Nancy Seeger in March 2010. Collection Summary Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection1874-1961 (bulk 1910-1961) ML31.G8 Gunn, Glenn Dillard, 1874-1963 circa 750 items 14 boxes 4.5 linear feet Collection material in English Music Division Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Primarily correspondence from, among others, Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Careño, Percy Grainger, and Moriz Rosenthal. Also photographs, many with autograph inscriptions including those of Claude Debussy, Victor Herbert, and John McCormack. Music is represented by manuscripts and autographed presentation scores (printed). The ramainder consists of miscellaneous personal papers, programs, and clippings. Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

 People Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924--Correspondence. Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924. Carreño, Teresa, 1853-1917--Correspondence. Carreño, Teresa, 1853-1917. Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961--Correspondence. Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961. Gunn, Glenn Dillard, 1874-1963. Gunn, Glenn Dillard, 1874-1963. Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924. McCormack, John, 1884-1945. Rosenthal, Moriz, 1862-1946--Correspondence. Rosenthal, Moriz, 1862-1946. Subjects Composers--Autographs. Musicians--Correspondence. Musicians--Photographs. Administrative Information Provenance

Given to the Library by Gunn's daughters, Janet Gunn McLean and Nancy Stephens in 1971.

 Accruals

No further accruals are expected.

 Processing History

The Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection was processed by Timothy Bullard in 1992 under the direction of Claudia Widgery and Robert Saladini. The finding aid was originally created with Word Perfect 5.1 software. In 2002, Michael A. Ferrando prepared and edited the finding aid in order to prepare it for the present EAD format.

 Copyright Status

The status of copyright on the materials of the Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

 Access and Restrictions

The Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection is open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Performing Arts Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use. Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.

 Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: container number, Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

 Biographical Note

Glenn Dillard Gunn, 1874-1963, music critic and pianist; music critic of Chicago tribune, Chicago herald examiner, and Washington times-herald.

 Scope and Content Note

The Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection consists primarily of Correspondence, Photographs, and Music. The range of dates represented in the collection is 1874-1961.

Worthy of note in the collection are letters from correspondents such as Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Carreño, Percy Grainger, and Moriz Rosenthal. There are also numerous photographs with autograph inscriptions to the Gunns, including those of Claude Debussy, Victor Herbert, and John McCormack. The sizable collection of printed music includes a number of autographed presentation scores, such as Eric Delamarter's Suite from The Black Orchid and Symphony no. 3, and Moriz Rosenthal's Zehn CharakterStücke. The manuscript music in Gunn's own hand consists of an arrangement of J. S. Bach's English Suite no. 3 for winds and a transcription of a Bach keyboard concerto for three pianos. A manuscript of several songs from the Gitanjali cycle by John Alden Carpenter, though in the hand of a copyist, does include Carpenter's own pencilled indications of orchestration.

The remainder of the collection consists of miscellaneous personal papers, programs and clippings.

Claudia Widgery, October 1992

 Organization of the Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection

The Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection is organized in 7 series:

Writings of Glenn Dillard Gunn Correspondence Personal Papers Programs & Announcements Clippings Photographs Music http://lccn.loc.gov/2010563510 Container List Box Contents 1 Writings of Glenn Dillard Gunn

Articles for the All-American Youth Orchestra (1940), a Diary , a letter to Lucy Furman (1955), and an undated typescript article.

Arrangement is by date.

 1 Articles for series on the Leopold Stokowski All-American Youth Orchestra tour of South America, July 31 - September 4, 1940, arranged chronologically (typescript drafts) See also: CLIPPINGS 1 Diary / Account book, 1893-1897 1 Letter to Lucy Furman ("Cousin Pearl"), dated June 28, 1955 1 "The Spirit of Chopin: An Article" (typescript) 1 Correspondence

Letters to Glenn Dillard Gunn. The bulk date of these letters is from 1949-1955.

Alphabetically arranged by correspondent.

 1 Albert, Eugène d' 1 Allen, Lyman Whitney 1 American University 1 Armitage, Albert 1 Beesley, Thomas Quinn 1 Borowski, Felix 1 Bos, Coenraad V. 1 Busoni, Ferruccio

Also: Mrs. Busoni

 Cain, Mrs. James M. see: Macbeth, Florence 1 Carreño, Teresa 1 Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1 Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago 1 Coleman, Susan 1 Damrosch, Walter 1 Garden, Mary 1 Garland, Hamlin 1 Göhler, Georg 1 Gorudnitzki, Sascha 1 Grainger, Percy 1 Gretchaninoff, Marie 1 Gunn family 1 Higgins, May 1 Hinze-Reinhold, Bruno 1 Imaz, Betty 1 Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1 Johansen, Gunnar 1 Kindler, Hans 1 Klein, Arthur G. 1 Kozeluch, Thaddeus 1 Leidzen, Erik 1 Luoma, R. 1 Macbeth, Florence 1 MacMillen, Francis 1 Marsh, Mary Drew 1 Mitropoulos, Dimitri 1 Moore, Helen 1 Musical Courier 1 Nielsen, Alice 1 Nies-Berger, Edouard 1 Novaes, Guiomar 1 Parker, H. T. 1 Patterson, Eleanor 1 Philadelphia Orchestra 1 Prokofieff, Serge 1 Rosenthal, Moriz 1 Samaroff, Olga 1 Schein, Ann 1 Schiffeler, Curt C. 1 Schulhof, Andrew 1 Schumann-Heink, Ernestine 1 Shepherd, Arthur 1 Skinner, Ernest M. 1 Somach, Beverly 1 Stokowski, Leopold 1 Tagliapietra, A. 1 Taylor, Deems 1 Teichmüller, Robert 1 Thalberg, Germaine 1 Thalberg, Marcian 1 United States White House 1 University of Rochester 1 Unschuld, Marie von 1 Vose, Samuel N. 1 Wright, Nellie Burt 1 Unidentified 2 Personal Papers

Miscellaneous personal documents (including school report card, temperance pledges, church tribute, etc.).

Arrangement is alphabetical by general description of each item.

 2 Miscellaneous personal documents (including school report card, temperance pledges, church tribute, etc.) 2 Programs & Announcements

Various programs and announcements from 1874-1943.

Arrangement is by genre and then by date.

 2 Programs and announcements (1906-1943, undated) 2 Programmes for the Summer Season, 1874 [by] Theodore Thomas. [Bound volume given by Thomas to Milman Adams on March 12th, 1883; given by Adams to Glenn Dillard Gunn on May 12, 1910] 2 Clippings

Reviews and articles written by Gunn dated from 1902-1940.

Arrangement is by date.

 2 Reviews by Gunn and press notices on recitals and lectures, 1902- (in bound scrapbook) 2 Reviews and articles by Gunn, 1905 (in 3-ring notebook) 2 Reviews written by Gunn (unbound) 2 Reviews of Gunn's performances written by others 2 Series of articles by Gunn on the Leopold Stokowski All-American Youth Orchestra tour of South America (1940) 2 Miscellaneous 3 Photographs

Photographs taken of Glenn Dillard and others. Many of these photographs have inscriptions to Gunn, his wife (Bernya Bracken Gunn) or his daughter (Janet Gunn).

Arrangement is alphabetically by name.

 3 Photographs of Glenn Dillard Gunn 3 Glenn Dillard Gunn 3 Glenn Dillard Gunn with others 3 Photographs of Others 3 Anderson, Marian 3 Bach, Johann Sebastian

photo of portrait owned by William F. Scheide

 3 Barer, Simon 3 Bauer, Harold 3 Bispham, David 3 Busoni, Ferruccio 3 Caruso, Enrico 3 Chaliapin, Feodor 3 Chopin, Frédéric 3 Debussy, Claude 3 Devries, Herman 3 Dupré, Marcel 3 Flagstad, Kirsten 3 Frantz, Dalies 3 Freund, Etelka 3 Friedheim, Arthur 3 Gadski, Johanna 3 Gallo, Fortune 3 Garden, Mary 3 Gieseking, Walter 3 Gradova, Gitta 3 Heifetz, Jascha 3 Herbert, Victor 3 Hofmann, Josef 3 Jepson, Helen 3 Kreisler, Fritz 3 Kurenko, Maria 3 Lhevinne, Josef 3 Liszt, Franz 3 Mason, Edith 3 McCormack, John 3 Menuhin, Yehudi 3 Middleschulte, Wilhelm 3 Milstein, Nathan 3 Mordkin, Michel 3 Neill, Amy 3 Nielson, Alice 3 Novaes, Guiomar 3 Petrillo, C. 3 Piatigorsky, Gregor Pinto, Mrs. Octavio see: Novaes, Guiomar 3 Polacco, Giorgio Polacco, Mrs. Giorgio see: Mason, Edith 3 Rachmaninoff, Sergei 3 Rodzinski, Artur 3 Rosenthal, Moriz 3 Saint-Saëns, Camille 3 Samaroff-Stokowski, Olga 3 Schein, Ann 3 Schumann-Heink, Ernestine 3 Spalding, Albert 3 Stock, Frederick A. 3 Szigeti, Joseph Tauscher, Mrs. Hans see: Gadski, Johanna 3 Teichmuller, Robert 3 Templeton, Alex (Alec) 3 Thomas, John Charles 3 Toscanini, Arturo 3 Wettergren, Gertrud 3 Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield 3 Miscellaneous 3 locations 4-14 Music

The Music series is represented by two subseries. The first subseries is Manuscript music collected by Glenn Dillard Gunn. The second subseries is Printed music collected by Glenn Dillard Gunn.

Arrangement is genre, composer or arranger and title.

 4 Manuscript music Bach, Johann Sebastian 4 English suite in G minor

Arranged by Glenn Dillard Gunn for wind choir.

 4 Konzert für Orchester, no. 3, BWV 1064.

Arranged by Glenn Dillard Gunn for three pianos.

 Carpenter, John Alden 4 Gitanjali, no. 57, 60-62, 80, 90

Note: in copyist's hand, with Carpenter's pencilled indications of orchestration

 Gunn, Glenn Dillard 4 [Miscellaneous fragments] 4-14 Printed music 4-6 Piano, 2 hands Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 4 Solfeggietto Beethoven, Ludwig van 4 Andante in F major

Arranged by Immanuel von Faisst, rev. by Sigmund Lebert.

 4 Eccossaisen

Arranged by Ferruccio B. Busoni.

 4 Sonata, op. 14, no. 2

Arranged by Immanuel von Faisst, rev. by Sigmund Lebert.

 4 Sonate

Edited by Alfredo Casella.

 5 Sonate

Edited by Louis Köhler.

 Brahms, Johannes 5 Zwei Rhapsodien. Busoni, Ferruccio 5 Elegien

[incomplete]

 Carpenter, John Alden 5 Polonaise américaine Carreño, Teresa 5 Kleiner Walzer Chopin, Frédéric 5 Etuden

Edited by Herrmann Scholtz.

 Clementi, Muzio 5 Gradus ad Parnassum

Edited by Carl Tausig.

 Crawford, Caroline H. 5 Sur la glace à Sweet Briar Debussy, Claude 5 Estampes Fernândez, Lorenzo 5 Moda Godard, Benjamin 5 Au matin Godowsky, Leopold 5 Suite for the left hand alone Goodell, Walter 6 Six original piano solos in classic style Granados, E. 6 Goyescas Green, Ray 6 Festival fugues, an American toccata

Note: blueprint copy of holograph

 Grieg, Edvard 6 Lyrische Stücke, Heft II. Morceaux lyricques, op. 38. Liszt, Franz 6 Années de Pèlerinage : 1ère année : Suisse : V. Orages. 6 Apparition no. 2 6 Etüden

Edited by the Franz Liszt Stiftung [autographed by Ferruccio Busoni].

 6 Gnomenreigen 6 Rhapsodies hongroises 6 Grandes études de Paganini

Transcribed for piano.

 6 Soirées de Vienne, no. 6

A piece by Franz Liszt in which he adapted 2 or more Schubert's dances.

 MacDowell, Edward A. 6 4th Sonata (Keltic) Mason, Rose d'Amore 6 Five short pieces for children

Note: autographed.

 Phillips, Honor 4 The Kingly Classics

Edited by Maisie Aldridge

 Pinto, Octavio 6 Marcha do Pequeno Polegar

Note: autographed.

 Rachmaninoff, Serge 6 Neuf études-tableaux, op. 39, no. 3, 5. 6 Prélude, op. 23, no. 9. 6 Prélude, op. 32, no. 10. Rameau, Jean Phillippe 6 Rigaudon

Arranged by Leopold Godowsky.

 6 Sarabande

Arranged by Leopold Godowsky.

 Ravel, Maurice 6 Gaspard de la nuit 6 Pièce en forme de habanera. Rosenthal, Moriz 6 Zehn Charakterstücke

Note: autographed.

 Rubinstein, Anton 6 Barcarolle Schubert, Franz 6 Militär Marsch

Arranged by Carl Tausig.

 Schumann, Robert 6 Liebeslied

Transcribed by Franz Liszt.

 6 Siciliana, op. 68, no. 11 Stevens, Everett 6 Winter starlight

Note: autographed.

 7 Piano, 4 hands Albéniz, Isaac 7 Catalonia Debussy, Claude 7 Gigues. Images pour orchestre, no. 1 7 La mer Ibert, Jacques 7 Escales MacDowell, Edward A. 7 Suite für grosses Orchester, op. 42 Ravel, Maurice 7 Rapsodie espagnole Saint-Saëns, Camille 7 Le carnaval des animaux Schmitt, Florent 7 Une semaine du petit elfe ferme-l'oeil Weber, Carl Maria von 7 Sämtliche Ouvertüren

Note: incomplete.

 8-9 Two pianos Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 8 Rondo

Arranged by Johannes Doebber.

 Bach, Johann Sebastian 8 D-moll Konzert

Arranged by Adolf Ruthardt.

 8 Konzert für 3 Klaviere in C dur. Bacon, Ernst 8 The burr frolic Beethoven, Ludwig van 8 [Concertos, piano, no. 2, op. 19, B-flat major; arr.]

Arranged by Franz Kullak.

 8 [Concertos, piano, no. 3, op. 37, C minor; arr.]

Arranged by Ch. v. Alkan.

 Chaminade, C. 8 Deux pièces pour orchestre, op. 79. Chopin, Frédéric 8 Concert für Pianoforte, op. 21

Arranged by Ed. Mertke.

 8 Sonaten, Rondos und Variationen

Arranged by Ed. Mertke.

[bound with] Concert für Pianoforte, op. 11. Arranged by Ed. Mertke.

 Debussy, Claude 8 Nocturnes

Arranged by Maurice Ravel.

 Frank, César 8 Les Eolides 8 Pièce héroique. 9 Variations symphoniques

Note: incomplete.

 Liszt, Franz 9 Ungarische fantasie

Arranged by Moriz Rosenthal.

 MacDowell, Edward A. 9 Erstes Konzert, op. 15 Mendelssohn, Félix 9 Capriccio brillant, op. 22 9 Rondo brillant, op. 29 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 9 Claviersonaten

Arranged by Edvard Grieg.

 9 Konzert in B dur

Arranged by Bruno Hinze-Reinhold.

 Paderewski, Ignace Jan 9 Concerto, op. 17 Prokofieff, Serge 9 Troisième concerto, op. 26 Saint-Saëns, Camille 9 Deuxième concert, op. 22 9 Variations sur un thème de Beethoven, op. 35 Schubert, Franz 9 Symphonie, B minor Schumann, Robert 9 Concerto, op. 54 Weber, Carl Maria von 9 Concertstücke, op. 79 10-11 Orchestra - Full score Bach, Johann Sebastian 10 Concerto a due cembali, C minor Beethoven, Ludwig van 10 [Concerto, piano, no. 3, op. 37, C minor] 10 [Concerto, piano, no. 5, op. 73, E-flat major] 10 Symphony, no. 1, op. 21

Note: string parts only.

Note: formerly owned by Theodore Thomas.

 10 Symphony, no. 2, op. 36

Note: full score, v. 1, vc., bs. parts

Note: formerly owned by Theodore Thomas.

 Brahms, Johannes 10 Symphony no. 2, op. 73 Delamarter, Eric 11 Suite from The black orchid

Note: autographed.

 11 Symphony, no. 3, E minor

Note: autographed.

 Dvořák, Antonin 11 Symphony, no. 5, E minor, op. 95 Liszt, Franz 11 [Concerto, piano, no. 1] 11 Zweite ungarische Rhapsodie

Edited by Karl Müller-Berghaus.

 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 11 [Concerto, piano, no. 10, E-flat major, K. 365] Schumann, Robert 11 Symphony, no. 1, B-flat major, op. 38 12 Chamber music Brahms, Johannes 12 Quintet, op. 34 Grieg, Edvard 12 [Sonatas, violin & piano, op. 13, op. 14] Haydn, Joseph 12 Quartet, no. 70, op. 76, no. 3

Edited by Reinhold Jockisch.

 12 [Trios, violin & piano, no. 13-22] Schubert, Franz 12 Quintet, C major, op. 163

Edited by Ferd. David.

 Schumann, Robert 12 Klavierquartet, E-flat major, op. 47

Edited by Alfred Dörffel.

 12 Quintet, E-flat major, op. 44 Sinding, Christian 12 [Sonata, violin & piano, op. 27] Smetana, Friedrich 12 [Trio, violin, violincello, & piano, op. 15]

Arranged. by Richard Kleinmichel for piano, 4 hands.

 13 Operas and opera excerpts (Piano-vocal scores) Massenet, Jules 13 Cendrillon Meyerbeer, Giacomo 13 L'Africana. O paradiso dall'onde uscito Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 13 Don Giovanni Parelli, Attilio 13 I dispettosi amanti

Note: I dispettosi amanti = A lovers' quarrel

Note: autographed.

 Puccini, Giacomo 13 Madama Butterfly. Un bel di Veracini, Francesco Maria 13 Rosalinda. A pastoral Wagner, Richard 13 Das Rheingold 14 Other vocal music Besly, Maurice 14 Music, when soft voices die Charpentier, Gustave 14 Louise, a musical romance Debussy, Claude 14 Il pleure dans ma coeur

Note: Il pleure dans ma coeur = It rains in my heart.

 Fontenailles, H. de 14 Steadfast love (Obstination). Foster, Stephen 14 Stephen Foster melodies

Arranged and inscribed by Martín Luis Guzmán.

 Fourdrain, Felix 14 L'Oasis Freer, Eleanor Everest 14 Rondel, op. 41, no. 10 Pišek, Vincent (compiler) 14 Twenty Bohemian folk-songs

Note: autographed by J. E. S. Vojan.

 Rimsy-Korsakoff, Nicolai 14 Chants nationaux russes Saint-Saëns, Camille 14 Guitares et mandolines 14 Instructional materials Cherubini, Luigi 14 Theorie des Contrapunktes und der Fuge Zwintscher, Bruno 14 Musikalische Verzierungen. Practische Übungen und theoretische Erläuterungen. [Unidentified] 14 [fragments]