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Composer Primary Source Dates Location/Call Number
Alimonda, Heitor
(1922-2002)		 Correspondence 1977 November Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 1
Almeida, Laurindo
(1917-1995)		 Special Collection 1912-1995 Laurindo Almeida Papers
Correspondence 1970-1974 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Papers, Box 120
Araújo, João Gomes de
(1846-1943)		 Correspondence 1938-1942, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 1
Braga, Henriqueta Rosa Fernandes
(1909-1983)		 Correspondence 1941 January Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 1
Other Manuscript
Work title: Sonhemos!		 1949 September Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 72
Casabona, Francisco
(1894-1979)		 Correspondence 1970 Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, Box 133
Caspary, Clodomiro
(1932-2006)		 Correspondence 1986 March 18 Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, Box 133
Correspondence 1986-1988 Aurelio de la Vega Collection
Chagas, Paulo César
(b. 1953)		 Correspondence 1978 May 14 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 1
Chiaffitelli, Francisco
(1884-1954)		 Correspondence before 1954 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 1
Cosme, Luiz
(1908-1965)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Salamanca do Jaráu		 1947 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 73
Other Manuscript
Work title: Falação de Anhangá-Pitã (Extraido do bailado Salamanca do Jarau)		 1941 September 15 Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, Box 277
Dornellas, Homero
(1901-1990)		 Facsimile Score
Work title: Ajuricaba: Batuque Caprichoso		 1955-1976 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 82
Fernandes, Maria Helena Rosas
(b. 1933)		 Correspondence 1981-1983 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Other Manuscript
Work title: Ciclo para piano		 1979 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 79
Fonseca, Carlos Alberto Pinto
(1933-2006)		 Correspondence 1962-1973 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Boxes 2 and 42
França, Agnello
(1875-1964)		 Correspondence 1941-1942, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Other Manuscript
Work title: Suite para quartetto de cordas		 1952 March 10 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 73
Franceschini, Furio
(1880-1976)		 Correspondence 1944, 1980 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Furtado, Murillo
(1873-1958)		 Correspondence 1940 January Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography 1938 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Composer Primary Source Dates Location/Call Number
Gallet, Luciano
(1893-1931)		 Photographs/Negatives/Iconography before 1931 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Other Manuscript
Work title: Canções populares brasileiras, no. 2		 1933 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 74
Other Manuscript
Work title: Interpretações, nos. 1-3		 1933 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 74
García, José Mauricio Nunes
(1767-1830)		 Facsimile Score
Work title: Compendio de Musica e Methodo de Piano-forte		 1821 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 79
Facsimile Score
Work title: Missa		 undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 74
Copyist Manuscripts 1931-1932, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Boxes 36 and 71
Garritano, Assuero José
(1889-1955)		 Correspondence 1939, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography 1936 May Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Gnattali, Radamés
(1906-1988)		 Correspondence 1937, 1955 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Gomes, Carlos
(1836-1896)		 Photographs/Negatives/Iconography 1870-1903, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Boxes 36, 64, and 65
Gomes, João, Jr.
(1868-1963)		 Correspondence 1938 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography before 1963 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Gonzaga, Chiquinha
(1847-1935)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Alma Brasileira		 1939
[posthumous publication; inscribed by Mariza Lira]		 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 74
Jatobá, Pedro Irineu
(1895-1948)		 Correspondence 1939, 1947, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Kampela, Arthur
(b. 1960)		 Holograph Score/Sketch
Work title: ...B...		 2012 ML30.3c.K36 no. 1 (Case fol.)
(Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission)
Katunda, Eunice
(1915-1990)		 Correspondence 1967-1981, before 1990 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Facsimile Score
Work title: Salmo 82		 1947 Aaron Copland Collection, Box 122
Other Manuscript
Work title: Sonatina para piano		 1946 Aaron Copland Collection, Box 122
Lamas, Dulce Martins
(1914-1992)		 Correspondence 1951-1985 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Boxes 2, 36, 45, and 48
Other Manuscript
Work title: Ângelus		 before 1992 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 75
Lara, Felipe
(b. 1979)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Brutal Mirrors		 2016 cataloging in progress
(Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission)
Lima, Florêncio de Almeida
(1909-1996)		 Facsimile Score 1966 Nov 18 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 75
Lima, João de Souza
(1898-1982)		 Correspondence 1943 December Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 2
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography 1963, before 1963 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Malcher, [José Cândido da] Gama
(1853-1921)		 Photographs/Negatives/Iconography before 1921 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Mannis, José Augusto
(b. 1958)		 Correspondence 1982-1987 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 3
Other Manuscript
Work title: Forge		 1983 Dec 8 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 75
Other Manuscript
Work title: Messager de l'automne		 1987 Mar 21 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 82
Marx, Walter Burle
(1902-1990)		 Correspondence 1976, 1979, before 1990 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 1
Maul, Octávio
(1901-1974)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Toccata		 1966 Nov 18 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 75
Medaglia, Júlio
(b. 1938)		 Correspondence 1961 Apr Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 3
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography after 1938 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Composer Primary Source Dates Location/Call Number
Nepomuceno, Alberto
(1864-1920)		 Special Collection 1887-1920 Alberto Nepomuceno Collection
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography 1899, 1915, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Neves, José Maria
(1943-2002)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Quatuor no. 4 (Sonorites)		 1970 December 4 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 77
Nirenberg, Henrique
(1909-1990)		 Photographs/Negatives/Iconography before 1990 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Octaviano, João
(1892-1962)		 Correspondence 1938, 1947, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 3
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Peixoto, Nonô Romualdo
(1901-1954)		 Holograph Score/Sketch
Work title: Uma farra em Campo Grande		 undated Laurindo Almeida Papers, Box 45
Penalva, José
(1924-2002)		 Correspondence 1977 July Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 3
Pereira, Marco
(b. 1950)		 Correspondence 1983 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 3
Pinto, Octavio
(1890-1950)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Marcha do Pequeno Polegar		 1940 January Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection, Box 6
Pompeu, Mario
(dates unknown)		 Holograph Score/Sketch
Work title: Brazil-United States Anthem		 1947 Aaron Copland Collection, Box 138
Holograph Score/Sketch
Work title: Pureza		 undated Aaron Copland Collection, Box 138
Prado, Almeida
(1943-2010)		 Correspondence 1969-1986, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 4
Facsimile Score
Work title: Portrait de Lili Boulanger		 1972 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 79
Other Manuscript
Work title: Portrait de Lili Boulanger: Allégorie musicale		 1972 August 25 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 79
Republicano, Antônio de Assis
(1897-1960)		 Correspondence 1938, 1944, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 4
Ribeiro, João Lambert
(1893-?)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Coriscos		 1937 May 22 Roman Totenberg Papers, Box 3
Rosato, Clorinda
(1913-1985)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Natal Brasileiro		 1954 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 79
Scliar, Esther
(1926-1978)		 Correspondence 1974 October Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 4
Silva, Francisco Manuel da
(1795-1865)		 Facsimile Score
Work title: Hymno á independencia do Brasil		 1861 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 82
Photographs/Negatives/Iconography 1861, before 1865, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 65
Silva, José Paulo
(1892-1967)		 Correspondence 1937-1964, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 4
Sodré, Joanídia
(1903-1975)		 Correspondence 1942, undated Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 4
Souza, José Geraldo de
(1913-?)		 Other Manuscript
Work title: Brindes Cantados do Folclore Brasileiro		 1981 September (inscription) Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 80
Other Manuscript
Work title: Missa Popular “Mossa Senhora Auxiliadora"		 1955 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 80
Other Manuscript
Work title: Prelúdio I		 1957 August 15 (inscription) Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 80
Tacuchian, Ricardo
(b. 1939)		 Correspondence 1977-1987 Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Papers, Box 5
Correspondence 1986-1987 Aurelio de la Vega Collection
Terraza, Emilio
(b. 1929)		 Correspondence 1958-1965 Jacobo Ficher Collection, Box 60
Valente, Augusto
(b. 1959)		 Correspondence 1989 April 1 Aurelio de la Vega Collection
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