Opera Scores from the Rokahr Family Archive

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Media

Citation

Collection administered by the Music Library, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 402-472-6300

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Abstract

The Opera Scores and Rokahr Family Archive includes:

• French and Italian composers, with the complete works of Auber, Audran, Bruneau, Hervé, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Massenet, Messager, Offenbach, Puccini, Respighi, Varney, Verdi, and Zandonai, as a few examples
• 19th and 20th century German and Austrian composers
• 18th century full scores by Grétry, Gluck, Monsigny, Philidor, Piccini, Rousseau, and Sacchini, many of which are first or early editions
• Scores from Danish, Polish, Brazilian, Czech, Swedish, Finnish, American, English and other composers
• Librettos and French livrets, including several volumes of the works of Eugène Scribe
• French opera posters of Cheret and Chaix from the 1860s through the 1880s
• André Gill caricatures of theater and musical personalities of Paris of the 1860s and 1870s
• LP opera recordings from 1950 to 1985, as well as CDs, videocassettes, and tape recordings of live opera performances

List of composers in collection:

Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856; Albert, Eugen d', 1864-1932; Apolloni, G; Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778; Auber, D. F. E. (Daniel François Esprit), 1782-1871; Audran, Edmond, 1842-1901 ;Chivot, Henri, 1830-1897 ;Duru, Alfred, 1829-1889; Audran, Edmond, 1842-1901; Balfe, M. W. (Michael William), 1808-1870; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Fidelio (1814). O wär ich schon mit dir vereint. Vocal score. Italian; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835; Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869; Berté, Heinrich; Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875; Boieldieu, A. (Adrien), 1775-1834; Boieldieu, François Adrien, 1775-1834; Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889; Braga, Gaetano, 1829-1907; Breitkopf & Härtel; Bretón, Tomás, 1850-1923; Brull, Ignaz, 1846-1907; Cagnoni, Antonio; Canteloube, Joseph, 1879-1957; Carafa, Michele, 1787-1872; Caryll, Ivan, 1861-1921; Casella, Alfredo, 1883-1947; Catalani, Alfredo, 1854-1893; Cellier, Alfred, 1844-1891; Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842; Choudens Fils; Christiné, Henri, 1867-1941; Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801; Costa, Pasquale Mario, 1858-1933; Cuvillier, Charles, 1877-1955; Dalayrac, N. (Nicolas), 1753-1809; David, Félicien, 1810-1876; Delibes, Léo, 1836-1891; Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934; Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848; Drechsler, Joseph, 1782-1852; Dvorák, Antonín, 1841-1904; Eysler, Edmund, 1874-1949; Fall, Leo, 1873-1925; Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946; Flotow, Friedrich von, 1812-1883; Gevaert, F. A. (Francois Auguste), 1828-1908; Gilbert, Jean, 1879-1942; Giordano, Umberto, 1867-1948; Glinka, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich), 1804-1857; Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787; Goldmark, Carl, 1830-1915; Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893 ;Carré, Michel, 1819-1872 ;Mistral, Frederic, 1830-1914. Mirèio; Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893; Grétry, André Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813; Grisar, Albert, 1808-1869; Grisart, Charles, 1838-1904; Guarnieri, Camargo, 1907-1993; Guglielmi, Pietro Carlo, ca. 1772-1817; Hérold, Ferdinand, 1791-1833; Halévy, F., 1799-1862; Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759; Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809; Heróld, Ferdinand, 1791-1833; Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924; Hervé, 1825-1892; Herve, 1825-1892; Herz, Henri, 1803-1888; Hess, Charles Léon, 1844-; Heuberger, Richard, 1850-1914; Hillemacher, Paul Joseph Guillaume, 1852-1933; Hirchmann, Henri, 1872-1961 ;Ferrier, Paul, 1843-1920; Hirsch, Louis A. (Louis Achille), 1881-1924; Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921; Isouard, Nicolo, 1775-1818; Jarno, Georg, 1868-1920; Jessel, Léon; Jessel,Léon; Joncières, Victorin, 1839-1903; Kálmán, Emmerich, 1882-1953; Künneke, Eduard, 1885-1953; Kalman, Emmerich, 1882-1953; Klenau, Paul von, 1883-1946; Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957; Krebs, Karl August, 1804-1880; Kreutzer, Conradin, 1780-1849; Kuhlau, Friedrich, 1786-1832; Lacome, P. (Paul), 1838-1920; Lajarte, Theodore de, 1826-1890; Lalo, Edouard, 1823-1892 ;Blau, Edouard, 1836-1906; Langer, Ferdinand; Lecocq, Charles, 1832-1918 ;Chivot, Henri, 1830-1897 ;Duru, Alfred, 1829-1889; Lecocq, Charles, 1832-1918; Lehár, Franz, 1870-1948; Lehar, Franz, 1870-1948; Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 1858-1919; Leroux, Xavier, 1863-1919; Lincke, Paul, 1866-1946; Litolff, Henry, 1818-1891; Loder, Edward J. (Edward James), 1813-1865; Lombardo, Carlo; Lortzing, Albert, 1801-1851; Métra, Olivier, 1830-1889; Maillart, Aime, 1817-1871; Malipiero, Gian Francesco, 1882-1973; Marschner, Heinrich, 1795-1861; Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945; Massé, Victor, 1822-1884; Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912; Mayr, Giovanni Simone, 1763-1845; Mazzucato, Alberto, 1813-1877; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847; Mercadante, Saverio, 1795-1870; Messager, André, 1853-1929; Messager, Andre, 1853-1929; Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864; Millöcker, Carl, 1842-1899; Millocker, Carl, 1842-1899; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881; Nasolini, Sebastiano, 1768?-1798 or 1799?; Neitzel, Otto, 1852-1920; Neumann, Alexander; Nieto, Miguel, 1844-1915; Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880; Paër, Ferdinando, 1771-1839; Pacini, Giovanni, 1796-1867; Paer, Ferdinando, 1771-1839; Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816; Pedrollo, Arrigo, 1878-1964; Peri, Achille, 1812-1880; Persiani, Giuseppe, 1799-1869; Pietri, Giuseppe, 1886-1946; Planquette, Robert, 1848-1903; Poise, Ferdinand, 1828-1892; Ponchielli, Amilcare, 1834-1886; Poniatowski, Józef, ksįaż̨e, 1816-1873; Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924; Redstone, Willie, 1883/-1949; Reinhardt, Heinrich, 1865-1922; Reyer, Ernest, 1823-1909; Ricci, Federico, 1809-1877; Ricci, Luigi, 1805-1859; Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908; Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868; Rubinstein, Anton, 1829-1894; Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825; Schreker, Franz, 1878-1934; Smareglia, Antonio, 1854-1929; Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884; Solomon, Edward, 1855-1895; Spohr, Louis, 1784-1859; Spontini, Gaspare, 1774-1851; Stojanovi?, Petar, 1928-; Stolz, Robert, 1880-1975; Straus, Oscar, 1870-1954; Strauss, Johann, 1804-1849; Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900; Suppé, Franz von, 1819-1895; Suppe, Franz von, 1819-1895; Szulc, Joseph; Thomas, Ambroise, 1811-1896; Valente, Vincenzo, 1855-1921; Varney, Louis, 1844-1908; Vasseur, Léon, 1844-1917; Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901; Verstovskiĭ, A. (Alekseĭ), 1799-1862; Verstovski?, A. (Alekse?), 1799-1862; Vittadini, Franco, 1884-1948; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883; Wagner, Siegfried, 1869-1930; Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826; Weigl, Joseph, 1766-1846; Weinberger, Carl, 1861-1939; Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 1876-1948; Zandonai, Riccardo, 1883-1944; Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1871-1942; Ziehrer, Carl Michael, 1843-1922;