Scope and arrangement
The Karl Stumpf Viola d’amore Scores consist of 3.25 linear feet of material dating from 1750 to 1999 containing primarily published and unpublished viola d’amore music.
Arrangement
- Series I: Scores, 1750-1999
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- Creator
- Stumpf, Karl
- Call number
- JOB 04-4
- Physical description
- 3.25 linear feet. (13 boxes)
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
Karl Stumpf Viola d’amore Scores, JOB 04-4. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Repository
- Music Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
The Karl Stumpf Viola d’amore Scores consist of 3.25 linear feet of material dating from 1750 to 1999 containing primarily published and unpublished viola d’amore music.
Biographical/historical information
Karl Stumpf (1907-1988), born in Vienna, was a violist in the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera, as well as a professor of viola d’amore in the famous Vienna Akademie für Musik (now Hochschule). The viola d’amore, of the viol family, has seven playing strings and a series of resonant or sympathetic strings. It was developed at the beginning of the seventeenth century for reasons of and a desire for augmenting the sonority. Stumpf performed chamber music, made recordings, contributed scholarly articles to ten professional publications in four different countries, edited many early viola d’amore pieces, and wrote several compositions himself. His many editions have added immeasurably to the available viola d’amore repertory and his fine recordings brought many unknown viola d’amore works to the general public on a large scale. He died on October 22, 1988.
Source Rosenblum, Myron. “Professor Karl Stumpf”, Newsletter of The Viola d’more Society of America. 12, (November, 1988), p.8-9.
Administrative information
Custodial history
Karl Stumpf gave the collection to his student Myron Rosenblum, director of the Viola d'Amore Society of America. Donated by the Society in June 2003.
Source of acquisition
Viola d’amore Society of America in June, 2003 (Originally, Karl Stumpf gave the collection to his student Myron Rosenblum who is also a director of Viola d’Amore Society of America.)
Processing information
Processed by Synae Yoon; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash.
Using the collection
Location
Music DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor
Access to materials
Request an in-person research appointment.Conditions Governing Use
For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division.
Alternative form available
Duo Concertainte für Viola d'Amore und Viola da Gamba by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, with notes (Box 9, f. 147-148) Available on microfilm as part of the Karl Stumpf viola d'amore scores (JOB 04-4); service copy classmark: *ZB-4360