Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
9 - Harold Spivacke
from Part Two - Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
Summary
Harold Spivacke (1904–77) succeeded Oliver Strunk as chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress in 1937, remaining in that position until 1972. RK communicated with him about manuscripts, particularly those related to Domenico Scarlatti. Spivacke was also instrumental in arranging concerts for RK and Alexander Schneider at the Library of Congress.
August 5, 1939
Dear Dr. Spivacke,
Many thanks for your letter and for the information about “The World Turned Upside Down” and the copy of Kromer's letter, all of which just reached me this morning. Here are the necessary comments on his letter:
1. It would probably be better to have the Parma Mss. sent to Venice, since both the Venice and Parma Mss. being in oblong format and since the Parma Ms. is important chiefly as a text revision of the Venice set, they can be photographed together, two volumes at a time, with parallel texts of the same sonatas on the same exposure. I have already explained this to the Venetian photographer, Fiorentini, who made for me some satisfactory samples in microfilm. As I said in my cable, he will do quantity work for seventy five centesimi an exposure and has free access to anything in the Biblioteca San Marco, without being obliged to supply a second copy for the library. (This was confirmed to me by the director himself.) … The director of the Bibliotheca Palatina in Parma offered to have the volumes sent to Venice for the purposes of my own study, but it was then too late for me to take advantage of the offer. Although the Venice and Parma Mss. do not entirely coincide either in order or contents, the parallel passages can easily be traced by the photographer through the use of the comparative table given in Gerstenberg's book Die Klavier-Compositionen Domenico Scarlattis. This I also explained to Fiorentini.
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- Ralph KirkpatrickLetters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar, pp. 78 - 81Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014