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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Music Library (Anita Breckbill, head) announces the dedication of the Rokahr Family Archive. (Notes for Notes).(opera music manuscript collection)(Brief Article)
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Music Library (Anita Breckbill, Head) announces the dedication of the Rokahr Family Archive, one of the premier private collections of printed opera scores and related material. Jack Rokahr, an alumnus, recently donated the archive to the University of Nebraska Foundation. The Rokahr Family Archive contains an eclectic collection of over forty-seven hundred scores of operas, operettas, and musicals dating from 1764 to the present. The archive focuses on nineteenth century opera and operetta scores of French and Italian composers, including the complete works of Auber, Audran, Bruneau, Herve, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Massenet, Messager, Offenbach, Puccini, Respighi, Varney, Verdi, and Zandonai. Included also is a fine collection of eighteenth century full scores by Gretry, Gluck, Monsigny, Philidor, Piccini, Rousseau, and Sacchini, many of which are first or early editions.
In addition to scores, the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Music Library (Anita Breckbill,...