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Adele Meade was a teacher and violinist in the Baltimore area. Her papers include photographs, a scrapbook, and personal papers primarily relating to her teaching career.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of two holographic letters, one of Eduard Reményi and one of Milward Adams.The letter of Reményi is written on the letterhead of the Chicago Auditorium and dated "12th, 1892." It is addressed to Milward Adams who was manager of the Chicago Auditorium at that time. Apparently, Reményi had performed there in 1892 and asked that Adams not forget "your old fiddler friend."The letter of Milward Adams is dated January 16 (no year) and...

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Evelina Martini was a violinist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for 27 years. The Evelina Martini papers, 1924-1991, contain photographs, correspondence, clippings, programs, music manuscripts, and other documents related to Martini's musical career and personal life. The papers also include documents related to the estate of Evelina Martini's husband, Ted Martini, and the sale of Ted's Music store after his death.

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Franz Carl Bornschein (1879-1948) was a composer of more than 200 works, primarily vocal music, and a professor of violin and composition at the Peabody Conservatory. His papers include scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, photographs, personal papers, manuscript and printed scores, and the personal papers of his wife, Hazel Knox Bornschein.

Abstract Louis Lombard was a violinist, composer, and conductor who founded the Utica (N.Y.) Conservatory of Music in 1889 and led an orchestra at his estate in Switzerland in the early twentieth century. The Louis Lombard papers contain published scores of Lombard's music for piano, voice, chamber ensemble, and orchestra, and personal and professional documents such as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and concert programs. Correspondents include Jules Massenet, John Philip Sousa, Ella Wheeler...

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Paul Vacek was a violinist, pianist, and composer (using the pen name Paul Vazkén) who studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music from 1946 to 1949. His papers contain manuscript scores of his compositions and arrangements, drafts and fragments of manuscript scores, and personal papers.