{"value"=>"<p>Series II represents the bulk of the material in the collection and principally consists of published scores that belonged to Steinert; many of these are autographed. The scores represent the work of prominent composers and composers with whom Steinert studied personally, including Charles Martin Loeffler and Vincent d’Indy, as well as composers, such as Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Florent Schmitt, representative of both the Paris Conservatoire and the broader community of modern music in Paris in the early 20th century. There are also a number of scores by Russian composers including Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Liapunov, and Glazunov, as well as major Classical and Romantic composers from Mozart to Brahms, and major opera composers including Wagner and Strauss. The majority of the scores have been orchestrated for piano and four hands; the instrumentation for each piece is indicated in the scope note. Most of the scores are printed in French or German, sometimes paired with Russian. There are also a few of Steinert’s own compositions and two song books from The Hasty Pudding Club, a social group and theater club at Harvard, of which Steinert was a member. Steinert and other members composed the content for the club’s annual musical production and the musical numbers were collected and bound. Many of the books are fragile.</p>"}