Instrumental music

Specialists

Blogs

The data behind "Climate Cash", a Reuters special report. | June 1, 2023
(Re-) introducing JS Bach’s complete works for organ, performed by Robert Huw Morgan | July 7, 2020
A Picture of Paris: Virgil Thomson’s The Seine at Night | January 10, 2019
Introducing Alfredo Piatti | November 4, 2016
Mysterious attributions: Reception of Die Zauberharfe | May 13, 2016

Notable collections

  • Jascha Heifetz Collection

    The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.

  • Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin Collection

    The Menuhin Collection contains many test pressings of Menuhin's performances as a violin soloist.

  • Kronos Quartet (l-r: Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Jeffrey Zeigler, John Sherba)

    Kronos Quartet Collection

    The Kronos Quartet has donated part of its collection of chamber music to the Music Library. Some scores are integrated into the general scores collection; a large part of the collection has been inventoried and is stored off site.

  • A glimpse of The Women's Philharmonic scores, shelved in the Music Reference Room.

    The Women's Philharmonic Collection

    From 1981 to 2004, The Women's Philharmonic was a San Francisco-based professional orchestra dedicated to the promotion of women composers, conductors, and performers.

  • Ben Schmidt Collection of Lute and Viol Music

    The Schmidt Collection contains primarily photocopies of original and transcribed music for viol and lute gathered from a variety of libraries and archival repositories.

  • Detail from Danza Tropical (1922)

    Julio de Osma Collection

    The collection includes over 100 music manuscripts by Spanish composer Julio de Osma.

  • Melinda's Wedding Day, by Goodwin/McCarthy/Piantadosi (c. 1913)

    Lucie King Harris Collection

    Lucie King Harris was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman. The Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund was the first endowed fund in Music at Stanford University. This collection of piano/vocal and solo piano music belonging to Lucie King Harris.

  • French Horn

    William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection

    The William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection principally consists of commercial and unpublished recordings of the world renowned British horn player, Dennis Brain (1921-1957).

  • Denis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls

    Over his lifetime, Denis Condon (1933-2012) amassed a collection of over 7500 piano rolls and ten instruments. The collection contains rolls of important composers of the period, all playing their own works.

  • Sitsky piano roll catalogs

    Larry Sitsky Piano Roll Catalog Collection

    This comprehensive rollography represents years of work documenting all known reproducing piano rolls of classical music ever issued.

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