Harry G. Schumer collection of opera scores and parts

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id: 2585
origination: Schumer, Harry G
date statement: ca. 1815-1970
key date: 1815
identifier (local_mss): 20149
org unit: Music Division
call number: JOB 89-24
b-number: b11791513
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created: 2013-04-01 15:04:31 UTC
updated: 2026-01-20 20:58:57 UTC
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unitid: {"value"=>"20149", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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unitdate: {"value"=>"ca. 1815-1970", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1815/1970", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
unittitle: {"value"=>"Harry G. Schumer collection of opera scores and parts"}
repository: {"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Music Division</span>"}
abstract: {"value"=>"Harry G. Schumer (1893-1971) was Orchestra Librarian of the Metropolitan Opera from 1938 to 1968. Schumer's private collection of printed and manuscript full scores, vocal scores, stage band scores, and parts to Italian, French, German, Russian, and Irish operas and operettas. Includes scores and parts copied by Schumer himself and by 19th century professional copyists, and Schumer's performance notes. Composers represented by more than 10 items include: Bellini, Donizetti, Gounod, Massenet, Puccini, Rossini, Johann Strauss, and Verdi. Many items had also been cataloged separately in earlier years."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"English"}
origination: {"value"=>"Schumer, Harry G", "type"=>"persname"}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"<p> Schumer's private collection of printed and manuscript full scores, vocal scores, stage band scores, and parts to Italian, French, German, Russian, and Irish operas and operettas. Includes scores and parts copied by Schumer himself and by 19th century professional copyists, and Schumer's performance notes. Composers represented by more than 10 items include: Bellini, Donizetti, Gounod, Massenet, Puccini, Rossini, Johann Strauss, and Verdi. Many items had also been cataloged separately in earlier years.</p>"}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"<p>The Harry G. Schumer Collection was bequeathed by Harry G. Schumer</p>"}
processinfo: {"value"=>"<p>Processed by: Andrea Cawelti, February 1993</p> <p>With grateful thanks to John Pennino and Robert Tuggle of the Metropolian Opera Archives</p>"}
date_start: 1815
keydate: 1815
date_end: 1970
date_inclusive_start: 1815
date_inclusive_end: 1970
prefercite: {"value"=>"Harry G. Schumer collection of opera scores and parts, JOB 89-24. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}

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