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The Library of Congress Music Division holds a wealth of music manuscripts central to Western classical repertoire by Jewish composers. These works are for soloists, chamber ensembles, and large ensembles. The manuscript scores include secular music, religious music, and music based on Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino poems, songs, and melodies.
The Music Division acquires such items through gifts, purchases, and commissioning funds. Music manuscripts can be individually cataloged or part of larger special collections.
Titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog and special collection findings aids when available. Items without online catalog records may be found in the Performing Arts Reading Room card catalog and by contacting reference specialists via Ask a Librarian.
Symphony no. 3 in B minor by Aaron Avshalomov (1894-1965) was a Siberian-born Jewish American composer.
Prelude and Fugue, op. 43 by Marion Eugénie Bauer (1882-1955) was a Jewish American composer.
Additional holograph scores by Marion Bauer are available under the call number ML96.B349.
The sweet Psalmist of Israel; three symphonic fragments for orchestra and soloists by Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984) was a German-born Jewish Israeli composer.
Lecho dodi, op. 90 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) was an Italian-born Jewish American composer.
Additional manuscripts and annotated photocopies of manuscripts for this work are available in the Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Papers.
Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra with harp and piano by Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was a Jewish American composer and conductor.
Additional holograph scores by Aaron Copland are available in the Aaron Copland Collection; under the call number ML29c.C8; and under the call number ML30.3c2.C8.
Ladino Songs by Additional holograph scores by Mario Davidovsky are available in the Mario Davidovsky Papers and under the call number ML30.3c.D36.
Allegro for piano by Paul Dukas (1865-1935) was a Jewish French composer.
Symphony of Chorales by Lukas Foss (1922-2009) was a German-born Jewish American composer.
Additional holograph scores by Lukas Foss are available in the Lukas Foss Papers.
Danza for chamber orchestra by Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) was a Jewish American composer.
Additional holograph scores by Miriam Gideon are available under the call number ML96.G44.
Girasol by Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) was a German-born Jewish American composer.
Robert le diable (Sketches) by Born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer, Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a Jewish German composer.
Madelaine: polka mazurka by Jacques (born Jakob) Offenbach (1819-1880) was a Jewish German composer.
Quartet, op. 99 by Leo Ornstein was a Russian-born Jewish American composer (1892-2002).
Dialogues for clarinet and piano by George Rochberg (1918-2005) was a Jewish American composer.
Additional holograph scores by George Rochberg are available under the call number ML96.R62.
Three Shadows: poems for orchestra, op. 41 by Lazare Saminsky (1882-1959) was a Russian-born Jewish American composer and conductor.
Additional holograph scores by Lazare Saminsky are available under the call number ML96.S235.
Imago by Josef Tal (1910-2008) was a German-born Jewish Israeli composer.
The Mighty Casey by William Schuman (1910-1992) was a Jewish American composer.
Additional holograph scores by William Schuman are available under the call numbers ML96.S414 and ML29c.S39.
