Collection Summary
Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage Collection
1792-1969
1792-1969
ML31.K77
Krueger, Karl, 1894-1979
Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage
approximately 475 items
16 containers
6.25 linear feet
English
Collection material in English
Music Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Karl Krueger was an American conductor,
best known as the first American-born conductor of a major United States orchestra. He
founded the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage in 1958 with
the goal of collecting and recording music by American composers. The collection
primarily consists of musical scores and parts with a small amount of business
papers.
Acquisition Information
The Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage Collection was most
likely donated by Karl Krueger in the early 1970s.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Emily Baumgart processed the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical
Heritage Collection and coded the finding aid in 2021.
Transfers
Sound recordings from the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage Collection have
been cataloged by the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded
Sound Division.
Copyright Status
Materials from the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage
Collection are governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and
other applicable international copyright laws.
Access and Restrictions
The Preservation of the American Musical Heritage Collection is open to research.
Researchers are advised to contact the Music Division prior to visiting in order to
determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time.
Certain restrictions on using or copying materials may apply.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
[item, date, container], Society for the Preservation of
the American Musical Heritage Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Biographical and Organizational History Note
Karl Krueger was born on January 19, 1894, in Atchison, Kansas. He received musical
training at Midland College in Atchison, the University of Kansas, and the New England
Conservatory, studying there with George Whitefield Chadwick and Wallace Goodrich. He
studied in Vienna from 1920 to 1922 with Robert Fuchs and Franz Schalk; during this time
he was also assistant to the conductor of the Vienna Staatsoper. From 1926 to 1932,
Krueger was the principal conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and was the first
conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic from 1933 to 1943. He led the Detroit Symphony
from 1943 to 1949. After leaving Detroit, he founded the American Arts Orchestra for New
York radio concerts. He founded the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical
Heritage in 1958, with the stated goals of preserving valuable American compositions and
exploring the idioms of American music. The Society issued a series of recordings under
the label "Music in America" with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra between 1958 and
1970. The Society also published Krueger's book,
Musical Heritage of the United States: The Unknown Portion,
in 1973. Krueger died in Elgin, Illinois, on July 21, 1979.
Scope and Content Note
The Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage Collection primarily
consists of scores and parts, both printed and reproductions, of the works of American
composers spanning from the late 1700s to the mid 1900s. It also includes a small amount
of materials pertaining to the founding and business of the Society, including
correspondence, tax information, and promotional materials.
Organization of the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage
Collection
The collection is arranged in two series:
-
[Music, 1792-1969](mus)
-
[Business Papers, 1888-1961
(bulk 1954-1961)](bus)
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
People
Billings, William, 1746-1800.
Carr, Benjamin, 1768-1831.
Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952.
Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937.
Krueger, Karl, 1894-1979--Correspondence.
Krueger, Karl, 1894-1979.
Krueger, Karl, 1894-1979.
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881.
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908.
Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906.
Robertson, Leroy J.
Shaw, Oliver, 1779-1848.
Organizations
Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage--History.
Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage.
Subjects
Chamber music--Scores.
Choruses, Sacred, Unaccompanied.
Choruses, Secular, with piano.
Conductors (Music)--United States--Correspondence.
Music--United States--History and criticism.
Orchestral music--Scores.
Piano music.
Songs with piano.
String quartets--Scores.
Symphonies--Scores.
Form/Genre
Art music.
Business correspondence.
Chamber music.
Dance music.
Promotional materials.
Sacred music.
Scores.
Songs.
Tax records.
Catalog Record: [https://lccn.loc.gov/2020570141]
Container List
1-15
Music, 1792-1969
1792-1969
Scores and parts for works primarily by American composers. Many of these
materials have performance annotations.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
1/1
8 Fragments from Shelley, 1951
1951
By George Antheil; text by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Three scores for chorus (SATB) and
piano
Contents:
- When Soft Winds
- To the Moon
- When the Lamp Is Shattered
1/2
Ainsworth Psalter. Psalm 65, 1938
1938
By Claude Goudimel
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
13/1
All Things Fair and Bright Are Thine, 1817?
1817?
By Oliver Shaw
Score for two voices and piano
1/3
An Anthem Designed for Thanksgiving, 1792
1792
By William Cooper
Vocal score
1/4
An Anthem for Easter, undated
undated
By Reed
Vocal score
1/5
Anthem: Lamentation over Boston,
undated
undated
By William Billings
Vocal score
1/6
Anthem "Retrospect", undated
undated
By William Billings
Vocal score
1/7
Anthems, undated
undated
By Reed; arranged by Leroy Robertson
Vocal score
1/8
Anthems, undated
undated
Unidentified composer
Vocal score
1/9
April, 1958
1958
By Paul Fetler; text by William Watson
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
13/2
Apollo They Treasure, undated
undated
By George J. Webb; arranged by Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
13/3
As Down in the Sunless Retreats,
undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
13/4
The Bird Let Loose, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
1/10
Blackbirds, undated
undated
By Sidney Lanier?
Score for flute and piano
13/5
The Blue Bird, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
1/11
Break, Break, Break, undated
undated
By Sidney Lanier; text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Two scores for voice and piano; lyric
sheets
13/6
Buds and Flowers, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
1/12
Chester, undated
undated
By William Billings; arranged by Jeanne Behrend
Score for piano
13/7
Come Strike the Silver String,
undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw; text by Susanna Rowson
Score for voice and piano
1/13
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1969
1969
By Leroy Robertson
Full score
1/14
Concerto no. 2, undated
undated
By Arthur Clifton
Short score and parts for chamber
orchestra
1/15
The Continental Harmony. An Anthem for Fast Day;
Deliverance, undated
undated
By William Billings
Two vocal scores
1/16
The Dance in Place Congo, 1922
1922
By Henry F. Gilbert
Full score
2/1
Danse les Moucherons, 1873
1873
By Sidney Lanier
Score for flute and piano
2/2
Dead March and Monody, 1799
1799
By Benjamin Carr
Score for voice and piano
2/3
The Death Song of an Indian Chief,
undated
undated
By Hans Gram; text by Sarah Wentworth Morton
Full score for chamber orchestra
2/4
Dirge, undated
undated
Text by Susanna Rowson
Vocal score
2/5
Dirge for General Washington,
undated
undated
By Dr. G. K. Jackson
Vocal score
2/6
The Disappointment, or the Force of Credulity,
1935?
1935?
By Andrew Barton
Piano-vocal score; program notes
2/7
Divertimento, 1936
1936
By Daniel Gregory Mason
Score for woodwind quintet; parts
2/8
Duo Concertant, undated
undated
By Robert Leaumont
Piano and cello parts
13/8
Ellen Arise, 1798
1798
By Benjamin Carr
Score for voice and piano
13/9
Forget Me Not, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw; text by Professor Doane
Score for voice and piano
2/9
Four Character Pieces After the Rubaiyat, 1912
1912
By Arthur Foote
Full score
2/10-12
Four Character Pieces After the Rubaiyat,
undated
undated
By Arthur Foote
Parts
13/10
The Gods of the Mountain, undated
undated
By Arthur Farwell
Full score
3/1-3
The Gods of the Mountain, undated
undated
By Arthur Farwell
Parts
3/4
Hamlet and Ophelia, 1883
1883
By Edward MacDowell
Reverse onionskin of full score
3/5-7
Hamlet and Ophelia, undated
undated
By Edward MacDowell
Parts
4/1
Have You Not Heard His Silent Steps?, 1953
1953
By Ernst Toch; text by Rabindranath Tagore
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
13/11
Have You Not Seen the Timid Tear,
undated
undated
By James Hewitt; text by Thomas Moore
Score for voice and piano
4/2
Heart Not So Heavy, 1939
1939
By Elliott Carter; text by Emily Dickinson
Score for chorus (SATB)
4/3
Hosanna to the Son of David,
undated
undated
By Orlando Gibbons
Score for chorus (SSAATB) and piano
4/4
Humoresque on Negro-Minstrel Tunes, 1913
1913
By Henry Gilbert
Full score
2/4
Hymn, undated
undated
By John Sylvester J. Gardner
Vocal score
4/5
I Leave Thee, Love, 1952
1952
By Hans Leo Hassler; English translation by Harold Heiberg
Score for chorus (SSATTB) and piano
4/6-9
Im Frühling, undated
undated
By John Knowles Paine
Full score; parts
5/1
Intermezzo for String Quartet, 1943
1943
By Daniel Gregory Mason
Full score; parts
13/12
Julia, 1827
1827
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
13/13
Kill Deer, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw; text by Percival
Score for voice and piano
5/2
Lady Coventry's Minuet; Lesson; March; Trumpet
Air, undated
undated
By James Bremner
Score for piano
5/3
Lamia, 1908
1908
By Edward MacDowell
Parts
5/4
Little Ella, 1866
1866
By Sidney Lanier
Two scores for voice and piano
13/14
The Little Sailor Boy, undated
undated
By Benjamin Carr; text by Susanna Rowson
Score for voice and piano
13/15
Love's Last Words, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
5/5
Marche Funèbre, undated
undated
By Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Score for piano
13/16
Mary's Tears, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
13/17
The Meeting, 1829
1829
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
13/18
The Minstrel's Return'd from the War,
undated
undated
By John Hill Hewitt
Score for voice and piano
5/6
Monody, undated
undated
By William Mason
Score for piano
15/1
Negro Heaven, 1933
1933
By Otto Cesana
Full score
5/7
Negro Heaven, 1933
1933
By Otto Cesana
Piano-conductor score
5/8
Negro Rhapsody, 1915
1915
By Henry Gilbert
Full score
5/9
New England Psalmody, undated
undated
By multiple composers
Score for chorus (various) and piano
13/19
The New Somebody, 1799
1799
By Benjamin Carr; text by Mr. Bernard
Piano-vocal score
5/10
O My Son Absolon, undated
undated
By Thomas Weelkes
Vocal score
5/11
O Praise Ye The Lord, undated
undated
By Heinrich Schütz
Vocal score
5/12
Old Things Are Done Away, 1964
1964
By Leroy Robertson
Full score for orchestra with voices
(fragment)
5/13
Os Justi, 1937
1937
By Anton Bruckner
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
6/1
Pageant Scene, undated
undated
By Arthur Farwell
Full score
6/2-3
Pageant Scene, undated
undated
By Arthur Farwell
Parts
6/4
Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet, 1942
1942
By Amy Beach
Full score
6/5
Polka de Concert, undated
undated
By Edward Hoffman
Score for piano
13/20
The Polar Star, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
6/6
Poseidon and Amphitrite, 1907
1907
By John Knowles Paine
Full score
6/7-9
Poseidon and Amphitrite, 1894
1894
By John Knowles Paine
Parts
13/21
Primroses, undated
undated
By James Hewitt
Score for voice and piano
13/22
Psalms, undated
undated
By Francis Hopkinson
Vocal score
7/1
Quartet in A minor, op. 18, 1906
1906
By Frederick Shepherd Converse
Parts for string quartet
7/2
Quartet in D minor, no. 5, undated
undated
By George Whitefield Chadwick
Parts for string quartet
7/3
Rorate Coeli!, 1952
1952
By Russell G. Harris; text by William Dunbar
Vocal score
7/4
She Is So Dear, 1932
1932
By Michael Praetorius; English version by Martin A. Henry
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
7/5
Silver Spring, undated
undated
By William Mason
Score for piano
7/6
Sinfonia, 1795?
1795?
By John Christopher Moller
Short score
13/23
Six Easy Evening Entertainments,
undated
undated
By Giovanni Gualdo
Score for two violins and continuo
(incomplete)
7/7
Six Quartettos for Two Violins, Tenor, and Bass,
undated
undated
By Joseph Gehot
Parts
7/8
Six Quartettos for Two Violins, Tenor, and
Violoncello, undated
undated
By John Christopher Moller
Parts (violin 1 incomplete)
7/9-10
Six Quintets, 1955
1955
By John Frederick Peter
Score for two violins, two violas, and cello;
parts
8/1
Six Solos for Violoncello with Accompanying
Second Cello, undated
undated
By Raynor Taylor
Score
8/2
Six Sonatas, 1960
1960
By Raynor Taylor; arranged by Leroy Robertson
Score for cello and continuo
8/3-4
Six Sonatas for Two Treble Instruments and
Thorough Bass, 1961
1961
By Giovanni Gualdo; arranged by Leroy Robertson
Manuscript score; parts
8/5
Six Songs for Mixed Chorus, undated
undated
By Paul Fetler; texts by Melville Cane, Hilda Doolittle, Adelaide
Crapsey, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, and Andrew Fetler
Vocal score
8/6
Six Trios for Violin, Tenor, and Violoncello,
undated
undated
By Joseph Gehot
Parts
8/7
Sixty-Seventh Psalm, 1939
1939
By Charles Ives
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
13/24
The Smile, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw; text by Dr. Collyer
Score for voice and piano
9/1
Sonata for Piano, undated
undated
By Alexander Reinagle
Score (incomplete)
9/2
Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1926
1926
By John Powell
Score; violin part
9/3
Sonata in E Major, undated
undated
By Alexander Reinagle
Score for piano
9/4
Sonata no. 2 for Two Violins, Cello, and
Harpsichord, undated
undated
By Gaetano Franceschini
Score (incomplete)
13/25
The Spinning Wheel, undated
undated
By James Hewitt
Score for voice and piano
9/5
String Quartet in E minor, 1940
1940
By Leroy Robertson
Score
9/6
Suite, op. 42, 1891
1891
By Edward MacDowell
Reverse onionskin of full score
9/7-10/2
Suite, op. 42, 1891
1891
By Edward MacDowell
Parts
10/3
Suite in D minor, 1896
1896
By Arthur Foote
Reverse onionskin of full score
10/4-6
Suite in D minor, 1896
1896
By Arthur Foote
Parts
14/1
Sweet Little Ann, undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
14/2
Sweet Rosy Sleep, undated
undated
By Benjamin Carr
Score for voice and various accompaniment
instruments
11/1
Symphonic Prologue: Francesca da Rimini, 1892
1892
By Arthur Foote
Reverse onionskin of full score
11/2-4
Symphonic Prologue: Francesca da Rimini,
undated
undated
By Arthur Foote
Parts
11/5
The Tempest, 1907
1907
By John Knowles Paine
Reverse onionskin of full score
11/6-12/1
The Tempest, 1898
1898
By John Knowles Paine
Parts
14/3
There's Nothing True but Heaven,
undated
undated
By Oliver Shaw
Score for voice and piano
12/2
Three Dedications, 1959
1959
By Kenneth Gaburo; text by Federico Garcia Lorca
Three scores for chorus (SATB) and
piano
Contents:
- Arid Land
- Surprise
- The Cry
12/3
Three Pieces for Chorus, 1898
1898
By Russel G. Harris; texts by Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings, and José
Garcia Villa
Vocal score (incomplete)
Contents:
- It Was Beginning Winter
- The Moon Is Hiding
- All the Horses Were Gold
14/4
Thy Smiles Are All Decaying Love,
undated
undated
By Benjamin Carr; text by Percival
Score for voice and piano
12/4
Toujours, undated
undated
By William Mason
Score for piano
12/5
Triptych, 1957
1957
By Relly Raffman; text by D. H. Letendre
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
14/5
Two Anthems for Three and Four Voices,
undated
undated
By William Selby
Vocal score
12/6
Two Egrets, undated
undated
By Glen Glasow
Vocal score
12/7
Turn ye, Turn ye, 1952
1952
By Charles Ives
Score for chorus (SATB) and piano
14/6
Venetian Overture and Scherzo,
undated
undated
By Horatio Parker
Full score
12/8
Washington and Independence,
undated
undated
By Victor Pelissier
Score for voice and piano
14/7
When Nights Were Cold, undated
undated
By Benjamin Carr; text by John Edmund Harwood
Score for voice and piano
14/8
When the Old Heathen Gods, undated
undated
By James Hewitt; text by Mr. Milns
Score for voice and piano
12/9
With Love My Heart Is Ringing, 1938
1938
By Hans Leo Hassler; English version by Willard Rhodes and L. J.
M.
core for chorus (SATB) and piano
14/9
The Wounded Hussar, undated
undated
By James Hewitt
Score for voice and piano
12/10
Ye Sons and Daughters of the King, 1925
1925
By Volckmar Leisring; English version by V. G. G. T. [Virgil
Thomson?]
Score for chorus (SATB plus TTBB) and
piano
16
Business Papers, 1888-1961
(bulk 1954-1961)
1888-1961
(bulk
1954-1961)
Papers pertaining to the operations of the Society.
Arranged by subject and chronologically therein.
Correspondence, 1959-1961
1959-1961
16/1
Gaburo, Kenneth, 1959-1960
1959-1960
16/2
Holiday, Richard, 1959-1961
1959-1961
Operations, 1959 and undated
1959 and
undated
16/3
Tax letter, 1959 May 25
1959 May 25
16/4
Mailing list, undated
undated
Promotional, 1954-1959 and undated
1954-1959 and undated
16/5
Summer Music Festival, Cedar Crest College,
1954 June
28-July 17
1954 June 28-July 17
16/6
Letter regarding recordings, 1958 November 14
1958 November 14
16/7
Review excerpts, 1959
1959
16/8
Society brochure, undated
undated
16/9
Karl Krueger promotional booklet,
undated
undated
Recording materials, 1888 and undated
1888 and
undated
16/10
George P. Upton: Paine Symphony no. 2 notes,
1888
1888
16/11
American Arts Orchestra personnel listing,
undated
undated
16/12
Liner notes, MIA 116, undated
undated